Irrelevant, but irritating

fundingfather
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:16:41 +0000

There is no 100 percent foolproof way of stopping any terrorist act. The best that we can do is reduce the probablity to a tolerable level (whatever that is). Hence, any amount of time that you spend searching a low-probablity target such as an 80 year-old man/woman or a 7 year-old child, you don’t have to search a high-probability target such as a 20 year-old middle-eastern looking person. It wouldn’t take a genius to come up with a rather simple profiling scheme that would easily cut the probability of a hijacker getting through in half. The argument that since you can’t eliminate all possibilitities so don’t even attempt any profiling is nonsense.

There is nothing that says that going through an additional security screening has to be a bad thing for an individual. I would say that all people who are called out for special screening (including the occasional 25 year old red head with a clerical collar) would be issued a special bording pass such that when it is time for bording the plane that they are offered priority bording right along with the first class passengers.