Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

[SDALAN04 () smumn edu]

Chris:

Just because people/humans are able to debate in a polite and educated manner doesn't mean that by any means are well 
rounded people or portray the minimum idea of world reality. I am of European decent but definitely not by any means in 
the structured latter of the majority. Bigotry like that of the government and people who feel that living under world 
domination ("the price for being American,"we have nothing to hide") including racial profile will help to live better 
and safer is a FUCKING IDIOT. Am on this mailing list to learn from others and every now and then mirror the lack of 
common-sense (for the lack of term) of others. I do appreciate your enthusiasm and attempt:::? Yeah, the encouragement 
of racial, religion, nationality profiling is just ever increasing more avenues to shit.

Don't mean to offend anyone,

Last reply,

Have a good weekend!

:)
 
On Saturday, December 02, 2006  2:21 PM, chris () loftyperch com wrote:
> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:21:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: chris () loftyperch com
> To: SDALAN04 () smumn edu, privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism
>
> --- 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
>
>
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