On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 05:22:29 GMT, Nate Perkins
wrote:

(Doug Miller) wrote in
news
In article , take out
'takeout' to reply wrote:

But on the original question: What do you think the impact would be if
every Arab or Muslim were pulled out of line at the airport and given
a special search?

One obvious result is that we'd catch more terrorists....

Do you really think all of the terrorists are going to be going through JFK
customs wearing their red and white ghutras and carrying their Korans?

No, but I certainly don't think that they are 90 year old grandmothers in
wheelchairs; or for that matter, 70 or 80 year old able-bodied gray-haired
women, or even 40 something, middle-aged, balding white guys. TSA stops
and frisks more of them than 18 to 40 year-old middle-eastern appearing
men. That make sense to you? Does that seem like a good use of resources?
You think that after checking off 100 caucasians, getting to frisk one
middle-eastern person helps prevent the potential of another terrorist
hijacking?



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