Posted on 12/05/2010 12:05:50 PM PST by Milagros
After a Timely Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate, New York Audience Weighs in on the Propriety of Racial & Religious Profiling at U.S. Airports Former Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff among the Debaters Tuesday November 23, 2010 15:48:01 EST NEW YORK, Nov 23, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
...agreed with the motion, U.S. Airports Should Use Racial & Religious Profiling, 33 % were against it and 30% were undecided. After the debate, the side arguing for the motion had moved more of the audience members to their position; they ended up with 49% of the vote, 40% were against the motion and 11% remained undecided.
The evening's winning team included Robert Baer, an author and former CIA case officer assigned to the Middle East; Deroy Murdock, a syndicated columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow at the Hoover Institution and Asra Q. Nomani, an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter and co-director of the Pearl Project. http://hk.quote.com/news/story.action?id=BIZ327b5446
US airports should use racial and religious profiling File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat U.S. should profile based on racial and religious identity. http://intelligencesquaredus.org/wp-content/uploads/airport-profiling-112210.pdf
If it is Muslim, it needs extreme scrutiny, and throw environmentalists in with them. That should just about eliminate the terrorist threat.
We need to take security back to being a common sense thing. This politically correct “security” crap Napolitano and her Nazis are using just isn’t cutting it.
Ok, so Jews, you wear the Star of David (remember?), you Christians wear a cross and Muslims wear their halfmoon thing. Atheists and agnostics/non-believers wear something about Mother Earth. That should sort things out. Each group would have their own screening area, excepting I suppose the Muslims. (sarcasm)
uhh...no duh. Thanks for posting this article of common sense.
Zero in on them Amish.
Throw in behavioral profiling, as well.
...walks like a duck, bump.
Most of US concluded that on September 11, 2001.
And what do you call it when you frisk grandma and let the muzzie (with the #$%^&* smile on his face) just walk through. It’s reverse racial profiling.
What is harassment? This is a matter of perspective and perception, and, so far, muslims have won against the government in being perceived as being victims of it through their provocations. Time to call these scum tactics out. THe defilement comes not from being hit but from the hitter.
If it is Muslim, it needs extreme scrutiny, and throw environmentalists in with them. That should just about eliminate the terrorist threat.
Terrorism should be narrowly defeined to Mulsim radicals at war with the US. This is because they have a foreign organization and have declared war on the US. The government has unconstitutional powers to fight Islamic terrorism. But suddenly all American Homeland Security does not like are being named “domestic terrorists.”
We must not let the government add American political groups to this defination even if they act violently for their cause. We have always handled our own trash within the limits of the constitution and we must force the government to continue to do so. Otherwise we will end up with a KGB where everyone any politican with a power base hates is a suspected domestic “terrorist.” Obama has named his political enemies terrorists. At that point the Bill of Rights will be totally gone. I don’t want to live in a new and improved Soviet Union.
If our government does not limit these patriot act powers to targeting only Islamic terrorism at war with the US, then we need to dismantle the KGB wannbes.
Since there’s really no way to tell one’s religion, I suggest screening for suspicious behavior like the Israelis do. Also, several groups do deserve closer attention for statistical reasons, such as age and country of origin.
The TSA is so politically correct they would never ask a question like that.
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