Is Racial Profiling for terrorists ever ok?

[BrickCop]

Do you think it is ever acceptable to use racial profiling for investigating/deterring Terrorist activity?

An obvious example would be if the police in UK, in an effort to protect the transit system, began to scrutinize males who appear to be of Middle Eastern descent.

Please explain your vote.

[SuperSix5]

Generally, yes. In fact my last federal agency specifically said, stop and question any middle easterners in certain areas, or those photographing/video taping areas. After checking IDs and escorting from the areas/confiscasting film, those names were to be forwarded to Army Intelligence for further investigation.

Political correctness has never won any wars, nor has it kept anyone safe.

[Quopper]

Call me racist, call me anything you want. We live in a different world now, and we need to protect outselves and our future generations. If "we" as society, (government) know the "type" of people that we are looking for then yes, racial profile away. Why would we NOT look at people that fit the bill?

[savage4presiden]

Civil rights violations aside, I think the greater crime would be to not profile them. Every American citizen deserves to know that they are not being placed on the same level as a terrorist/muslimist. If you're a muslim: deal with it. To not profile would be counter-productive and defeat the purpose of doing security checks. If we don't allow police officers to profile then what exactly is our "war on terrorism?"

[Groundhog]

I don

[savage4presiden]

I feel like anyone of Middle Eastern ethnicity who is found to be in this country illegally should be deported immediately.

If they were deported where would they go? Back to their muslimist base camps in the middle east to train for bombing . That's not where we want them to go. We would need to intern illegal alien muslimists.

[TXLady]

RACIAL PROFILING

This one's been making the rounds.

To ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly insane fanatics intent on killing us, airport screeners will not be allowed to profile people. They will continue random searches of 80-year-old nuns, four-year-old children, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal Of Honor winning former Governors.

Pause a moment and take the following test, which will show you why racial profiling is discriminatory and evil:

In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
(a) Olga Korbutt
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Michael Jackson in the name of NAMBLA
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) The Village People
(b) The King of Sweden
(c) The Boy Scouts
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In April 1983, the American Embassy in Beirut was blown up killing 63 people, by:
(a) Carl Sagan
(b) A beach volleyball team gone bad
(c) Apaches
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In October 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up killing 242 soldiers, by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) The Backstreet Boys
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year old American passenger in a wheelchair was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs
(b) Maxine Waters and a gang of Marxists
(c) Jimmy Carter
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kidd
(b) Charles Lindberg
(c) Mother Teresa and 12 other militant nuns
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed killing 270 people by:
(a) Scooby Doo and the gang
(b) Blue Man Group
(c) ACLU Lawyers
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed by:
(a) Richard Simmons and the cast of Cats
(b) Grandma Moses and several other unidentified "primitive artists"
(c) Michael Jordan and his girlfriends
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers
(b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's bimbo eruptions
(c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless"
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In October 2000, the USS Cole was attacked and 17 sailors killed by:
(a) Bert from Sesame Street
(b) Angry While Males
(c) Ice T
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed, and thousands of people were killed by:
(a) Enron
(b) The Supreme Court of Florida
(c) Sonny and Cher
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
(a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
(b) The Lutheran Church
(c) The NFL Cheerleaders
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
(a) Bonny and Clyde
(b) The Spice Girls
(c) Billy Graham and the 700 Club
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

[Delta784]

Brick, have you seen the "Massachusetts Traffic Stop Data Collection Books" yet? It's PC carried to the point of insanity.......

[Groundhog]

If they were deported where would they go? Back to their muslimist base camps in the middle east to train for bombing . That's not where we want them to go. We would need to intern illegal alien muslimists.

I dunno. Ask your buddy Michael Savage. It wasn't my original idea. He suggested it on his show tonight, and I thought it was a good idea.

[Centurion44]

Yes. Show me a extremist muslim terrorist of anything other than ME decent and I'll rethink my ways.

[Cinque]

Sure, everyone who fits the description of Tim McVeigh, tall white male, christian, crewcut, clean shaven, militia type, let's just take him down immemdiately, he's a threat to national security, every white man who fits this mold is in deep sh-t.

[BrickCop]

Sure, everyone who fits the description of Tim McVeigh, tall white male, christian, crewcut, clean shaven, militia type, let's just take him down immemdiately, he's a threat to national security, every white man who fits this mold is in deep sh-t.

I agree, I mean it's not like Oklahoma was an isolated incident. Why there's thousands of white males all over the world calling themselves the "Al-Caucasia". This evil group is known to hijack planes, decapitate civilians and conduct suicide bombing runs.

[Cinque]

No, these terrorists are far more dangerous and sinister. They so blatantly go into countries, plunder their natural resources, kill all their democratically elected leaders, blackmail nations, and scare the hell out of their own citizens with strategic bombings so they can give up their security and become a slave. Oh we're the U.S. Remember what Ben Franklin said, "they that give up essential liberty to attain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety".

[SuperSix5]

By the way, none of this is new. There are probably not many of us on this board who were around for WWII, but just do a Google search on Japanese internment in the US during those years. Thousands of innocent Japanese-Americans, many born here, had their homes & assets seized and were forced into camps. Could something like that be around the corner if we are attacked again? And guess who would be on the front lines doing it?

If you haven't seen it already, check out the movie "The Siege." It was made back in 98 and deals with this exact issue. It's entertaining, and makes you think at the same time.

[SR-25]

Call me racist, call me anything you want. We live in a different world now, and we need to protect outselves and our future generations. If "we" as society, (government) know the "type" of people that we are looking for then yes, racial profile away. Why would we NOT look at people that fit the bill?

Agreed. Going into this blind can and will get you killed.