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Feds Undertaking Massive Passenger Profiling Plan
Logic Bomb writes: "The Washington Post is running an overview of a rather big-brother-ish airline passenger screening system the government is proposing. Keeping track of people's ticket purchases is one thing, but correlating people's addresses and living arrangements...! This attempt seems closer to completion and implementation than any other that's been proposed so far."
Apart from the issue that 911 started the death of the US by itself, who says that the weopen (an aircraft) can't be chartered, purchased, or by any other means aquired?
One day the US will wake up and realise it is no longer the USA.
Very sad.
"Because we are not employing at entry level, offshoring will kill our industry stone dead."
If it keeps more planes from crashing into buildings, then I'm all for racism. Gotta weigh the pros and cons here, folks, It's not like we're locking people up over this.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
but we have freedom of speech
Right. Try having a public speech in support of forming a Nazi party and see how free you are to speak.
I can buy/rent a zone 1 DVD at any video store.
So can we...
I can publish code to decrypt DVDs without any limitation.
Ok, you got me there.
I can practice cryptography [technion.ac.il] without being targeted.
There are absolutely no laws in the US that keep me from using any form of cryptography I want.
-- Give me ambiguity or give me something else!
I'm sure this will offend pretty much every tree-hugging PC person that reads this, but I don't care. Grow a fucking spine.
Whereas we haven't declared official war, we
*are* at war right now. If profiling is one of the tools that we need to use to prevent the death of more innocent people, then fine. Would you guys be whining right now about racism if it were the israelis profiling arabs that fly into their country looking for palestinians? Do you think it would help if you did? Hell no. The israelis would look at you like you were a madman, and then point out the last 30 or so suicide bombers that have set themselves off in malls or local businesses in the last 6 months. They have a problem over there.
Likewise, we have a problem over here. In my mind, it is our responsibility to treat the problem before it develops into a disease. If certain ethnic groups over here don't like the profiling, then my suggestion is that they lean on the people that they damn well know are involved in terrorist acts against the states and either turn them in, make them stop, or eliminate them.
Now. As a sidenote.
Black man says nigger - it's culture.
White man says nigger - it's racist.
Italian man says wop - it's culture.
Asian man says wop - it's racist.
Indian man says chink - it's racist.
Asian man says chink - it's culture.
So. Where's the racist act? In saying the word, or in differentiating between the speaker?
I am all for war crimes in Afghanistan, I want to see many dead Taliban and Al-Qaeda Scumbags. And yes I voted for W. This guy means what he says and takes no shit from liberal pukes like you.
Do you even have a clue that Muslims are just as ethnically diverse as Christians? How long before we have a John Walker, clean-cut and solidly integrated in society blow up another federal building. Oh wait. That's right. The first terrorist to do that wasn't Islamic.
Finally, you have an extremely small percentage of the population committing these acts so now you want to profile the whole community under the same brush. Well going back to McVeigh, does that mean I should profile caucasian christian males? What? Oaklahoma City isn't big enough now? Not recent enough?
Your "boring math" is weighted by some human's criteria. It is in no way pure and merely analytical. And as someone who wouldn't flag a single criteria mentioned in the article it still really bugs me that my personal history is coming under such scrutiny. imnsho, this intrusion isn't worth the 15 minute savings I'd get at the airport.
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie