Irrelevant, but irritating

cangel
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:31:26 +0000

Amen Lauren, it is the same type of thinking that has people terrified to fly, when statistically and realistically driving is much more dangerous - there is just something about falling out of the sky.

I truly think we need to take a page out of the Israelis’ book and do some profiling. BUT, as Dadguy astutely pointed out, pure ethnic profiling will not work. At least two of the British would-be hijackers were British born, Anglo-Saxon converts, our greatest danger is from home grown terrorists. Also overlooked in the profiling discussion is the notion that it is behavioral rather than racial profiling that is effective.