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Institutionalized ignorance and stupidity.
Reader comment on item: Should airport security procedures include ethnic and religious profiling?

Submitted by mariana (United States), Nov 22, 2006 at 16:26

Your vigilance is deeply appreciated, and your papers wonderfully educational. The Enlightenment and the West willdie of political correctness. We've been "disinforming" our children on a grand scale for over 35 years, and we're about to be served our "just desserts!" Of course these DATA should be part of screening. What's the point of wasting time searching or stopping blacks, latinos and chinese if the "perp" is a 6'3" blonde male with a "Scandanavian" or "Germanic" accent?

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ABSOLUTELY [46 words]John H. ArmfieldMay 23, 2008 18:32
German terrorists [30 words]JackSep 21, 2007 08:25
Looks like this survey was taken in a mosque or in Dearborn [50 words]Warren RaymondDec 25, 2006 19:12
↔ muslim states [53 words]Steve SmithJan 26, 2007 10:56
This is ridiculous! [204 words]MonaNov 28, 2006 14:49
↔ Reply to this is ridiculous [190 words]JudeoChristDec 3, 2006 02:51
↔ Profiling [118 words]Steve SmithJan 26, 2007 10:39
↔ muslims and airports [104 words]Steve SmithJan 26, 2007 10:52
↔ reply to mona [156 words]morousMar 2, 2007 15:03
↔ IS PROFILING AGAINST MUSLIMS THE ANSWER OR PREVENTION OF TERORIST ATTACKS IN THE US MAINLAND? [367 words]GERARDO LARREA FRENCHJul 10, 2007 01:36
FYI--Costco survey [17 words]GLNov 22, 2006 22:37
⇒ Institutionalized ignorance and stupidity. [77 words]marianaNov 22, 2006 16:26
This poll is highly suspect [161 words]G. WoodworthNov 21, 2006 12:56
This one's for Amnesty International [58 words]Judeo-ChristNov 19, 2006 09:46
Costco Poll is worthless if it is a self-selecting poll [183 words]EFGNov 19, 2006 03:44
There Is Profiling [148 words]Steve39Nov 18, 2006 22:06
The right way to go [183 words]Judeo-ChristNov 18, 2006 14:10
↔ muslim terrorists [8 words]tabingins911May 13, 2007 00:21
Everything that enhances my security on flight is accepted happily [9 words]Meir Monselise M.D.Nov 18, 2006 04:24
Costco [27 words]Sondra RossNov 16, 2006 21:45
TSA [118 words]LDCNov 16, 2006 09:50
↔ Do profile as necessary, but better not to have them here. [437 words]G. WoodworthNov 19, 2006 02:28
The Nature of the Enemy [401 words]Prof. Paul EidelbergNov 16, 2006 09:11
Great idea, only... [49 words]OpherNov 16, 2006 03:25
↔ of course [130 words]dfwhite19438Jan 15, 2007 23:17
What we are fighting [92 words]David W. LincolnNov 15, 2006 23:55
Move along, no terrorists here. [117 words]MichaelNov 15, 2006 22:20
Interesting thoughts some of these... [449 words]D WilliamsNov 15, 2006 22:07
Call it "InSecurity" [47 words]jerome krasnowNov 15, 2006 21:08
What ...? [137 words]dfwhiteNov 15, 2006 20:58
Unbelievable [228 words]GCNNov 15, 2006 20:08
YES, profile! Absolutely!! [181 words]Lily MissNov 15, 2006 19:12
Amen! [52 words]Martin HendersonNov 15, 2006 17:52
Why reinvent the wheel? [59 words]JoaquimNov 15, 2006 16:58
↔ If the world would apply this: Any terror act make their political demands MOOT. [31 words]DavidNov 15, 2006 17:24
↔ Yes [4 words]Octavio JohansonNov 15, 2006 19:02
↔ Doubling Unlikely [52 words]LDCNov 16, 2006 09:53
Constructive Approach is Needed [113 words]Phyllis StraussNov 15, 2006 16:57
Profiling is simply common sense and makes it harder for them to sneak among us [28 words]DavidNov 15, 2006 16:38
↔ Common Sense? [18 words]LDCNov 16, 2006 09:55
Airport Security is a trivial response to a war of agression [136 words]Ralph C Whaley MDNov 15, 2006 16:21
↔ Dream on, Doc [18 words]LDCNov 16, 2006 09:57

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