British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally."For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense."
Racial profiling only results in the vicitimization of innocent people.
This is ignroance and madness in what is supposed to be a civilized society. Characterizing another person by the color of their skin is stupid and counterproductive.
The fearmongering that is practiced by the media, the governments of the US and UK and right-wing pundits on both sides of the Atlantic only contribute to the feeling that people of color are hated by white Europeans.
Shameful.
And another thing...
Those right-wingnuts who oppose affirmative action, but promote racial profiling as a good thing reveal their racist tendencies. It's all about fear. That's the bottom line.
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Those right-wingnuts who oppose affirmative action, but promote racial profiling as a good thing reveal their racist tendencies. It's all about fear. That's the bottom line.
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Nadir: Please explain this. Are you stating that opposing affirmative action for "blacks" equates with racism against "blacks"?
Nadir: During WWII, do you think that Americans who are German, or visiting Germans, should have gotten the same or more scrutiny from national security agents as Mississippi-born black folks?
I already described how I got racially profiled flying back from Colombia a few years back: single white, non-hispanic man flying from Bogota to Colombia. I assume that this profile has a much higher than normal likelihood of muling some drugs. "Probably cause" doesn't apply to travel on private airlines, Nadir, should it?
Here an Irish girl got "racially profiled" because she was flying alone and pregnant, from Isreal to Jordon, during a jewish holiday. Something seemed odd, and security forces utilized their "right" to search anybody, but which they employ discriminately.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51365
I oppose most of the Patriot Act and Homeland Security measures. The measures that I support apply special attention from US govt agents on the actions of islamic peoples in the US, and people in the US communicating with islamic peoples and nations outside the US. Several islamic groups around the world, and within free societies, have declared war on the US in particular, and free societies in general, using islam as the justification for this war.
I oppose making air travel more cumbersome and expensive, but I support paying special attention to flyers who fit the profile of people active in this islamic war against civilization. I oppose pulling over "islamic-looking" people on the street and scrutinizing them. But for the duration of this war, I support concentrating special scrutiny on muslims who choose to engage in certain activities in which participants must by definition agree to submit to special scrutiny. Air travel and border crossings qualify as one of these activities. Participants in these activities agree to submit to official searches and background checks. I think it would be impractical and unneccessarily expensive to uniformly apply such scrutiny to all participants.
Muslims and others who wish to end such special treatment for muslims should, in my opinion, apply their energies to defeating the current muslim crusade against civilization, not in hampering the efforts of those trying to do so.
My take on this and similar incidents: I am glad that members of this islamic crusade against civilization know that the population from which they draw the vast majority of their soldiers will receive special attention when attempting to fly. I hope that the muslim "lads" will appreciate this as well. If the IRA were still practicing terror, had expanded its target list to include the US, and were striking US targets via US natives of Irish descent, I would certainly welcome having myself and my family subjected to special searching while flying, and having special attention played to my phone calls and email exchanges with people in Ireland, and Irish people outside the US.
Six: This may be how we finally get intelligent application of airline screening: individual travellers refusing to board planes that contain muslims whom they believe have not been specially screened. The marketplace at work.
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