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Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism
From: <chris () loftyperch com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:21:34 -0800 (PST)
--- SDALAN04 () smumn edu wrote:
This is definitely a moronic, republican, Americanistic, right-winged, and blinding example of the type of minds that rule our existing government.
Oh, please. Not only have you lost the ability to debate a topic rationally (or politely, sheesh), but you espouse a set of cliche memes about as relevant and useful as a 16th-century dictum to burn female faith-healers with warts. If you believe that America is the heart of profiling then you likely have never been outside of it (or your European enclave?). As has been said by a dear friend of mine (a Pakistani Muslim): "If 911 had happened in reverse in Karachi, all the white people would have been burned to death in their homes. Here people actually *apologize* to me for occasionally singling me out!". Ask Chris Rock who he is looking over his shoulder for at late-night ATMs in inner-city USA if you want to talk about profiling. I may not be comfortable with profiling, but I suspect at the end of the day that may yet prove to be lingering white-liberal-guilt on my part. I want to find a way to discern bad-guys without ever casting doubt on a single innocent person, but experience tells me that in my town I can reliably tell a genuine hard-luck homeless person from a crack-head on the street with a short glance. Timothy McVeigh deserved a little profiling, he was ranting on Usenet for months before killing all those kids in Oklahoma. Everything is legitimately on the table in debating how to deal with risk. Even sophmoric spews like yours serve some purpose, if it is nothing more than allowing others a metric by which to rate the value of your comments. -chris Chris Blask Founder and CEO Lofty Perch Inc A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things. - Admiral Grace Hopper, Computer Pioneer 1231 King Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 1G6 +1 416 358 9885 chris () loftyperch com _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Florian Weimer (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Brian Loe (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Drsolly (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Brian Loe (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Florian Weimer (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Brian Loe (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism chris (Dec 02)
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- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism Brian Loe (Dec 02)
- Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism chris (Dec 02)