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Subject: Re: Racial Profiling - Semi-vent


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Date Posted: 16:01:07 10/11/02 Fri
In reply to: Raisinmom 's message, "Re: Racial Profiling - Semi-vent" on 15:49:56 10/11/02 Fri

This was mentioned in a commentary I read a while back, but I don't recall the author....

If we're going to profile terrorists, what about youg white ex-military Christian males? I mean, until 9/11, the worst terrorist act perpetrated on American soil was committed by Tim McVeigh, and the anti-government radical group(s) that shared his views are full of white Midwestern men.

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This country's history of racial profiling is ugly indeed. Look at what happened to the scores of totally innocent American citizens of Japanese descent who were rounded up like cattle during WWII and stuck into camps (gee, not unlike the Nazis here), losing their homes and their livelihood for no other reason than their ancestry.

Add that to the fact that radical Muslim terrorists are not all of Arab descent. Look at Zacharias Moussaoui. If I saw him at the airport, I would assume that he was an African-American man, and I definitely would not know that he was a Muslim extremist or a terrorist.

In any event, lack of profiling is not what led to 9/11. Those men would have been allowed aboard the planes, period. Of course, a few simple security procedures (cross-referencing airplane manifests with lists of terror suspects, no blades on planes, reinforced cockpit doors, pilots never open cockpit doors or negotiate with terrorists etc etc) might have prevented 9/11.....

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