Braddock wrote:
No, they should not get a pass on the scanners. If they don't like the security measures they'll just have to make other travel arrangements.
However, racial and religious profiling for security purposes is bang out of order. The British subjected the Irish to internment and a policy of 'guilty until proven innocent' during the troubles and it's a fucking disgusting way for any supposedly civilised nation to behave. It's no different to a suicide bomber regarding all Westerners as 'infidels' who deserve to be attacked. Every individual is unique, you have to apply security measures to everyone evenly.
Internment and 'guilty until proven innocent' based only on ethnicity is a touch overboard.
A bit different than giving people some extra scrutiny at the airport based on their ethnicity.
Be polite, be professional, but be thorough.
The first 99,999 through the screening process are perfectly innocent and peaceful.
Hell, they very well may be fleeing the same jackass jihadis that are being screened for.
But, you
must catch that 100,000th one through the screening process - he's the whole reason you wasted your time on the first 99,999.
Not even a matter of their skin tone, either. More than a few western converts to radical Islam too.
Screening based on
actually paying attention to the names on the magic watch lists, or last few stamps on their passport, or behavioral profiling, or, or...
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