Racial Profiling or Common Sense?

Grandma ain't a terrorist

Published on August 3, 2005 By Arquonzo In Current Events

I don't know how many of you travel, but I do quite a bit. And I will tell you this...
I profile the hell out of people, and every other private traveller does as well. We're not keeping our eyes open for Granny and her suspicious handbag. No Sir. We're watching those who are more likely to be possessed by the great Satan of modern Islamic fanaticism. (And the hot babes, but that's a different issue.) It is time our governmental agencies get a clue... What is it going to take? A terrorist slipping through while Mary Smith is randomly chosen for inspection, probably.

Comments

greywar

on Aug 03, 2005

Wierdly I disagree with you on this one... Racial profiling can seem quite logical on the surface but there is a downside.

It seems to make sense to profile when criminals of a certain type (terrorists) are 95% from one racial group. Seems liek a natural thing to do but where is the cutoff? Whats if the percentage was 85%? 80? 60? I hate to allow governmental agencies the leeway to start drawing that line. It is as slippery a slope as censorship is. I do not trust large govermental agencies to be able to keep this sort of discriminatory power in check over the course of any mid to long term timline. Might work for 1 year or 2 but then how do you take that power back from them?

Seems to be *very* dangerous to me and I'm a right wing fascist.

Arquonzo

on Aug 04, 2005

It's not a matter of drawing an arbitrary cutoff line of percentages. It's a matter of knowing that little old ladies are NOT who we're looking for, and that wasting our time searching them is counterproductive.
As for taking power back from the feds... hahahahahahaha! That's going to take a few more constitutionalists on SCOTUS.

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