Pocket Full of Mumbles: Can we start profiling now?

Friday, August 11, 2006

Can we start profiling now?

I say, Yes! What say you?

7 Comments:

benning said...: Profiling is the only intelligent way to go. Only a fool argues against it. And fools we have in abundance!; August 11, 2006 4:59 PM
Ms.Green said...: I think we should just continue to randomly search little old white-headed ladies in wheelchairs and 50 year old men in bermuda shorts wearing white socks and black loafers. After all, most terrorists are just ordinary every day American citizens, right?

I recently had to fly, and my manicure scissors in my makeup bag were confiscated. However, my 6-inch pencil with the one-inch sharpened head on it was not. I would think thrusting a sharpened pencil into someone would be much easier and quicker than trying to manipulate a pair of curved manicure scissors. But what do I know?; August 11, 2006 7:55 PM
Al-Ozarka said...: "Profiling"

I'm astonished that this is even an issue. Every person profiles every day.

It is not racist--it's common sense!; August 12, 2006 9:48 AM
Anonymous said...: racial or ethnic profiling in the selection of air passengers to screen would create a pattern in air safety. Terrorists could plan and scheme around that pattern. If TSA officials only screen middle aged adults you can be certain that the next bomb will be smuggled in a diaper carrier or an oxygen container. Random searches add another variable to make the plans of terrorists more complex and foilable.; August 12, 2006 9:44 PM
Eric said...: BenT and I agree: Random searches will prevent far more attacks than strict profiling of Middle Eastern looking men... But that's not to say we can't do both. Strict racial/ethnic profiling for arab men and women, AND random searches for everyone else. Though I think its safe to say the little old blue-haired lady from Sheboygan, at this time, is no threat. Yes, her baggage get's screened like everyone elses, but you don't drag her out of line and waste time interrogating her, and performing a strip search... Ewww!; August 12, 2006 11:15 PM
Brooke said...: Well, EL... Normally I would agree...EWW! But with all the pics of Hez Grannies in the news holding rocket launchers, it's hard to know who to look for with any certainty.

But profiling helps, (and I believe it does) I don't have a problem with it.; August 13, 2006 3:27 PM
Erudite Redneck said...: If only profiling evil were possible!

"Profiling" does one main thing: Makes the profilers, and those who cheer them on, feel better.

But, what the hey: One thing that is *not* a constitutional right: the right not to be annoyed by an inconvenience.; August 13, 2006 7:02 PM

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Friday, August 11, 2006

Can we start profiling now?

7 Comments: