Posted on 11/27/2010 8:17:05 AM PST by UniqueViews
America must focus its finite capabilities on those who crave the destruction of planes and the people who ride them.
What would that profile be? Today's threat comes almost exclusively from militant-Islamic males between about 18 and 35 who hail from the Middle East and predominantly Muslim African and south-Asian nations. This profile was not drawn by anti-Muslim bigots, nervous Jews, or paranoid Southern Baptists. The terrorists themselves created this profile.
It's past time to employ terrorist profiling to shield Americans from those who want to murder us.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
And where are the civil rights organizations? Everyone was up in arms about the "violation of civil rights" when the Bush administration wanted to listen in on phone conversations where one end was a terrorist in a foreign country, the other one in the US. But taking naked pictures and sexually groping innocent Americans, just because they are traveling by air seems perfectly fine.
Where is sanity?
to do that is racial profiling. makes no sense to me. if you are looking for a blonde you do not examine all the redheads walking by.
Civil Rights people are DEMOCRATS....they would NEVER go against a DEMOCRAT BLACK PRESIDENT.
We all need to start contacting our Congressmen and demanding that this kind of common sense profiling be at the heart of our security overwatch. CAIR can go screw themselves.
The Israelis have a system that is proven to work, and it does NOT involve travelers taking their shoes off, having to pose for naked pictures and stand still for sexually explicit groping. So how can the US justify to not even try a proven system and instead, harass the innocent travelers.
This is a fine plan, yet does nothing for those who are naturalized Americans, like the Portland Bomber, or who will use Europe’s lax laws to travel under British Passports.
What do you do when they stop using Muslim names and travel using documentations that identifies them clearly?
You cannot identify terrorists by appearance.
hmm, I know just an example. how about if you are looking for a white person you don’t look for asians or latinos.
There are many things they SHOULD do but won’t. Our Democrat overlords have decided that the average citizen is a potential enemy of the state.
Remember all that talk on MSNBC about Tea Party “extremists”? They actually believe that a white middle class family will sneak a bomb in a toddler’s diaper for the “republic”.
Good article by Deroy Murdock. Thanks for posting. Works until Islam sends through assymetric zombies...”blond-haired, blue-eyed devils”.
“At a Monday night Intelligence Squared debate on this topic at New York University, one of my interlocutors was Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles Burlingame, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which al-Qaeda smashed into the Pentagon. She cited her conversation with an American Airlines customer-service agent who worked on September 11. He checked in Nawaf and Salem al-Hazmi, two of those who hijacked that Boeing 757. While American’s seasoned employee found these two suspicious, Burlingame says he told her he did not flag them for further scrutiny “because I didn’t want my colleague to think that I was a racist and a bigot.”
The Israelis sytem does not focus on appearance — it is merely one of many considerations.
If an eye witness reports a murder committed by a 6’4” white guy, you don’t stop all 5’5 black males, nor short females of any color.
However, it isn’t at all necessary to profile as you suggest. Many of the Arabs and Africans in this country are Christian minorities escaping persecution by Muslims.
You can. You betcha.
“So how can the US justify to not even try a proven system and instead, harass the innocent travelers.”
The ENTIRE purpose is to harass. The leftists exist for the sole purpose of punishing their enemies out of spite and envy. That enemy is every man, woman, and child who has something they don’t have.
What do you do when they stop using Muslim names and travel using documentations that identifies them clearly?
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Like “Richard Reid”
There was a really interesting piece on this in the WSJ yesterday. Until I read that, I was really ignorant on the whole profiling debate.
You really can’t do it by appearance. Remember Jihad Jane? According to the article, we should be more concerned with home grown jihadi converts who could be any race.
The emphasis really has to be on profiling, but sticking strictly to physical appearance isn’t going to cut it.
The column also points out that as soon as it becomes clear we are giving extra scrutinty to 18-50 yo ME men, they’ll figure it out & start using another demographic.
These home grown converts are really scary. Body scanners are clearly the wrong techonology tho, at least from what I’ve learned about them. Thermal imagers would make a lot more sense.
Speaking of profiling — see this recently posted article, this guy wasn’t a Christian blonde American either...
Somali-Born Teenager Held in Oregon Bomb Sting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2633687/posts
Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would set off the blast but instead brought federal agents and police swooping down on him.
Yelling “Allahu Akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great!” — Mohamud tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.
Profiling does NOT mean basing everything on physical appearance — the Israeli method has been proven successful, here is a little more info about it:
Israeli airport gives rare glimpse into security
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=105&sid=2101096
But it requires intelligent, trained workers.
The best profile is - is the traveler a member of the middle eastern death cult cleverly disguised as a religion?
We just need a 100% reliable way to know if a traveler is one of them.
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