Posted by
Sam Aron on Friday, August 11, 2006 2:11:06 PM
What happened to the US? Did we really forgot what our forefathers envisioned? Are we about - perhaps in the midst of the process - to sacrifice our ideals for the sake of so called security?
I can't express enough how angered I am, hearing on the news channels that we started the scary, ugly, nonhuman, sadistic practice of PROFILING. And the worst: no body is criticizing or even realizing how deep we sunk, in the name of security.
Here is the profiling story that you most probably missed.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1225032,00.htmlAs the US-British allies revealed the plot of using a poisonous liquids to blow up planes, they started with "collective Punishment" in the airports. They ordered all liquids out of the planes. Imagine the tons of pity liquids trashed in the garbage bins in Heathrow and JFK. Why are they penalized? Because the look alike that dangerous liquid that a few terrorists planned to use as a weapon?
According to the human rights rules, its a grave crime to profile a substance because of its practical similarity to a suspect. If we want to stop the danger, lets do random checks on all substances that are carried on planes - not differentiating between sticky stuff, wet, or pieces.
I'm cutting short my criticism, out of concern that some lefty radical will take it serious. Tomorrow we might see a group PELA - People for the Ethical Treatments of Liquids. You never know.
Although the discriminated substance is not a human being, its still underscoring the importance of profiling. In the above linked article, the writer is recognizing that it would be much easier to keep an eye on the potential perpetrators, then to try identify their weapons.
Its time to stop the nonsense, and waste crucial resources on random checks.
It would be much easier to use the visible signs that we have, to search a specific group of people. We all know that 99.9 percent of them are innocent, but it is in their interests, as in ours, to use practical searches to stop terrorists. After all, if - god forbid - their plane will blow up, it wouldn't profile, it will kill them together with the irish faces. So why shouldn't they agree for a few minutes of extra searching - the same that I want through lately in the Buffalo airport - in order to make sure that they and everybody is safe.
When the police are hunting for a sex offender, will they stop ladies? So why when the TSA is on the look out for Islamic terrorists, why are we ought to waste crucially needed personal on searching people we know that they're not the subjects of the search.
It's not collective punishment. It's looking in the right direction. Nobody is accusing anybody, and we love the honest American Muslims, but it's ridiculous to order the disposal of hard substances, when the danger is a liquid.