On 8/29/06, Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would you feel the same if it were the 1970's and people were calling > for "irish-looking" men using public trash cans to be detained and > questioned?
yes. add to that list, white men in "militias" wearing full camo during any given day, young punks in jack boots, guys in pointy white hats and sheets ... and yes, *gasp* brown, middle eastern men. To *not* use profiling is to deny the oh so blatanly obvious reality, a reality that even a child understands. > The world is complicated, but every innocent person has a right to > live in our society free of suspicion. suspicion is what helps to catch bad guys _before_ they hurt someone. i guess neighborhood watch programs are a blight on society ? > And yes, that means some of us > are willing to trade a little security for that guarantee. how about, instead of trading "security" for freedom, we trade personal opacity for personal transparency and do away with political correctness for its own sake instead. > Sane > people know that were vastly more likely to die from a car crash than > a car bomb anyway. and i accept the risk from a car crash of my own free will, but i dont from a car bomb. > And yes, this is politics. But that attitude is precicely the aspect > of todays society that we're (hopefully) going to find so embarassing > in the decades to come. i will never be embarassed by trusting in my instinct, given to me by experience and 1000's of years of evolution, that tell me that i shouldn't walk down the street "in the hood" at midnight, and that men from the middle east are more likely to want to harm me than my 75 year old irish neighbor. > Andy Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
