Nice $5 word. I always love to be hinted at being a liar with a word I have to go look up.
By not wanting to profile Arabs, and travelling a lot watching the TSA search everyone from toddlers to old woman in wheelchairs so they aren’t singling out a particular ethnic group, no one has to say this is what they want. Sometimes silence speaks volumes.
Singling out ethnics has nothing to do with TSA searchs. They search everyone.
Yes, it does. The thought process in this country has gotten so ridiculous that we can’t single out the one ethnic group in this country that is committing the crimes. Whether it’s the NYPD, LAPD, or the TSA, the have to search everyone for fear of constantyl getting sued.
No, they don’t. Everyone goes through the metal detector and the routine baggage search, but some passengers are selected for a thorough search. This is done, not because the people selected meet any particular profile, but based on random numbers. One time they searched Al Gore that way.
Vern,
More important that OTHER people’s lives – because those who push this kind of thing consider themselves immune.
You are correct. I was referring only to the metal detector and hand baggage search.
You might have a hard time persuading the black community (whence, unfortunately, come most of the petty felons) that they should be singled out and others given a complete pass on police scrutiny.
And that’s where profiling comes in.
I didn’t know the black community was flying airplanes into buildings and bombing subways.
First of all, we’re not talking about “petty felons,” as you correctly point out.
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This would be a very penetrating question were it not put rhetorically.
No because some Muslims would not wear them and some non-Muslim liberals would wear them out of spite.
No because some Muslims would not comply and some non-Muslim liberals would clog up the precincts out of spite.
No because some non-Muslim liberals would hand the stickers out compliments of the morning latte.
Sheesh. Pure genius. Let’s get this crescent and sticker scheme off the ground lickety-split just to keep the ACLU out of our hair.
Yeah. It’s called occam’s razor: if it’s blue, has a beak, lives in a cage, and says chirp, then its probably a budgie.
Either state up front whom you would stop, do the math, or recant.
You’re kidding, right?
BONUS QUESTION #2
You have a strange definition of spite. We are all well aware of what happens to societies that force a group of people to show their religion publicly in order that they may be singled out as suspicious. Opposing such a system would be a very meritorious thing to do.