Irrelevant, but irritating

Dadguy
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:31:12 +0000

The “drop something in some old lady’s carry-on” is just one scenario. Another is the recruitment of non-Arabs or mixed race individuals or fairer skinned-Arabs.

I am not necessarily agianst more strigent screening of certain groups of people. I am certainly against less strigent screening (than exists now) of everybody else. When peopel bring up profiling, I think they are especially focused on the idea that non-Arabs will be lighlty screened.

I do think it would be easier to beat a profiling set-up for a single-plane takeover than it would for a multi-plane conspiracy. I still think profiling gives terrorists an opportunity that might otherwise not exist.