Poll

Should airport security procedures include ethnic/religious profiling?

Yes54%54% - 107
No33%33% - 66
Stop the polls11%11% - 23
Total: 196
lowing
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.:XDR:.PureFodder wrote:

lowing wrote:

Bubbalo wrote:


But in that case there was a witness providing a descripition: you're talking about pulling over 300lb white guys every time a car is stolen.
I sure am, if cars were continually stolen by people fitting that discription................Now, swap stolen cars for terror attacks, and swap 300 lb white guys for Middle Easterners...........Same thing..Profiling you bet, RACIST, no way.
Guilty until proven innocent, law `American style`.
Since when is stopping pausing and double checking someone's ID, labeling him as guilty and hanging him...Stop being a drama queen.
.:XDR:.PureFodder
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lowing wrote:

.:XDR:.PureFodder wrote:

lowing wrote:


I sure am, if cars were continually stolen by people fitting that discription................Now, swap stolen cars for terror attacks, and swap 300 lb white guys for Middle Easterners...........Same thing..Profiling you bet, RACIST, no way.
Guilty until proven innocent, law `American style`.
Since when is stopping pausing and double checking someone's ID, labeling him as guilty and hanging him...Stop being a drama queen.
If that's all profiling will be, they do that with everyone already, what's the point in profiling?
Bubbalo
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lowing wrote:

Racism is a belief that one race is superior to another.
No, racism is the belief that one race is inherently different to another.

lowing wrote:

That is not what profiling suggests, and you know it. In the case of profiling for terrorists, race is used as a descriptive, along with 100 other descriptives. It is NOT used as a reason.
And my point, along with that of many others, is that it wastes resources and will simply mean that terrorists will use operatives who do not fit the profile.

lowing wrote:

It just so happens that Islamic, Middle Easterners are the ones threatening us now, so it makes no sense to look for, or suspect 80 year old white women.
50% of Australians interned at Guantanamo Bay are white.  I only know of one high profile terrorism arrest in Australia, and it was a white guy.
lowing
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Bubbalo wrote:

lowing wrote:

Racism is a belief that one race is superior to another.
No, racism is the belief that one race is inherently different to another.

lowing wrote:

That is not what profiling suggests, and you know it. In the case of profiling for terrorists, race is used as a descriptive, along with 100 other descriptives. It is NOT used as a reason.
And my point, along with that of many others, is that it wastes resources and will simply mean that terrorists will use operatives who do not fit the profile.

lowing wrote:

It just so happens that Islamic, Middle Easterners are the ones threatening us now, so it makes no sense to look for, or suspect 80 year old white women.
50% of Australians interned at Guantanamo Bay are white.  I only know of one high profile terrorism arrest in Australia, and it was a white guy.
1..Better double check your facts Bubbalo.......It is not racist to acknowlege 1 race is different than another, only inferior or superior.......Races ARE different, or they wouldn't be races, now would they?

2. Hmmmmmm, then how exactly did they foil all of the latest terrorist attacks if profiling is a waste of time??

3...Well then you are doing nothing more than reinforcing my point, they are interned at GITMO and are WHITE?? Sure doesn't sound like a RACE issue to me then.

Last edited by lowing (2006-12-09 04:29:40)

lowing
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+1,662|6934|USA

lowing wrote:

Bubbalo wrote:

lowing wrote:

Racism is a belief that one race is superior to another.
No, racism is the belief that one race is inherently different to another.

lowing wrote:

That is not what profiling suggests, and you know it. In the case of profiling for terrorists, race is used as a descriptive, along with 100 other descriptives. It is NOT used as a reason.
And my point, along with that of many others, is that it wastes resources and will simply mean that terrorists will use operatives who do not fit the profile.

lowing wrote:

It just so happens that Islamic, Middle Easterners are the ones threatening us now, so it makes no sense to look for, or suspect 80 year old white women.
50% of Australians interned at Guantanamo Bay are white.  I only know of one high profile terrorism arrest in Australia, and it was a white guy.
1..Better double check your facts Bubbalo.......It is not racist to acknowlege 1 race is different than another, only inferior or superior.......Races ARE different, or they wouldn't be races, now would they?

2. Hmmmmmm, then how exactly did they foil all of the latest terrorist attacks if profiling is a waste of time??

3...Well then you are doing nothing more than reinforcing my point, they are interned at GITMO and are WHITE?? Sure doesn't sound like a RACE issue to me then.
Bueller,........... Beuller........hello ? anyone out there?? damn, a thread killer!

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