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From Gallup, "Americans Back Profiling Air Travelers to Combat Terrorism":
Americans widely endorse the use of profiling to single out airline passengers for more intensive security searches before they board U.S. flights, based on their age, ethnicity, or gender. Seventy-one percent are in favor of this practice and 27% are opposed.
These results are based on a Jan. 8-10 USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted in the weeks after the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight headed for Detroit. The incident sparked renewed discussion of ways to tighten security measures at airports, ranging from expanding the government's "no fly" list to more widespread use of body scan machines at airports.
"Eighty-three percent of self-identified conservatives favor the use of profiling, compared with 47% of liberals."The attempt has renewed debate over the use of profiling on the basis that terrorists generally have certain shared characteristics. The practice is used in Israel, a country noted for its tight airport security, but not in the United States. Two common objections to its use in the U.S. are the potential violation of individual civil liberties and unequal treatment for members of certain groups.
The poll results suggest that Americans seem to give greater weight to protecting citizens against possible terrorism than to protecting against potential violations of individual liberties.
4 comments:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't 100% of airplane terror attacks committed by Muslims? Especially considering the stated goal: "We have the right to kill 4 million Americans - 2 million of them children - and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands. Furthermore, it is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons, so as to afflict them with the fatal maladies that have afflicted the Muslims because of the [Americans'] chemical and biological weapons." ( al-Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith)
Since Lockerbie, every single commercial airliner that has been targeted for destruction was done done so by guys who have dark hair, dark complexions, dark eyes, and half of them went by the name of Mohammed.
Do the math.
Just how fucking hard can this be?
-Dave
I agree with Dave and Rick. I was a “victim” of racial profiling . I totally understood. I was leaving Morocco October 7, 1981, a day after the Sadat assassination. As a young white male, wearing a fedora hat, (Indiana Jones type), I fit the profile of privileged young American druggies. They directed me out of the line and away from my wife and child, into a room. Then I was searched and interrogated, “Where are you hiding the drugs?” They made me take off the hat shoes socks. Finally they decided I was not a hippie smuggling drugs out and I was released. Harrowing? Yes. Understandable? Yes. Ethnic profiling is logical and necessary.
Seems sometimes like the not profiling, not taking on imperial mohammedism by name and foreign aid all combine to embolden the once and future caliphaters to act out even more agressively to create a dominent power.
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