Comments on: Airlines, Worries and Priorities http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/2008/12/airlines-worries-and-priorities/ Drinking the love from her Holy Grail Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:51:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jersey McJones http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/2008/12/airlines-worries-and-priorities/#comment-11700 Jersey McJones Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:19:59 +0000 http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/?p=2355#comment-11700 I think it was Jerry Seinfeld who said, soon after 9/11, and I paraphrase, 'Go ahead and profile. If 9/11 were committed by a bunch of Jewish comedians, I'd want them to stop and search me.' Some level of profiling seems appropriate. On the other hand, if you happen to look a little semitic, you might not like it. I think of that scene from Zohan when the neighborhood Jews and Arabs are joking around about how they all look kind of alike to foreigners and how one of them looked like "a Mexican.' And then of course there are examples of non-semitic looking terrorists. And then there's that infamous moron, John Lindh, the "American Taliban." Profiling does have its limits. Good intelligence is the key. Personally, I'd like to see the visas stop flowing out to places like Pakistan, the Arabian penninsula, and Egypt. I tried doing a news search on any recent such incident, but couldn't find anything. Usually it's just some drunky or a drug smuggler or some moron who forgot to unpack their hunting knife from last season. JMJ I think it was Jerry Seinfeld who said, soon after 9/11, and I paraphrase, ‘Go ahead and profile. If 9/11 were committed by a bunch of Jewish comedians, I’d want them to stop and search me.’ Some level of profiling seems appropriate. On the other hand, if you happen to look a little semitic, you might not like it. I think of that scene from Zohan when the neighborhood Jews and Arabs are joking around about how they all look kind of alike to foreigners and how one of them looked like “a Mexican.’ And then of course there are examples of non-semitic looking terrorists. And then there’s that infamous moron, John Lindh, the “American Taliban.” Profiling does have its limits. Good intelligence is the key. Personally, I’d like to see the visas stop flowing out to places like Pakistan, the Arabian penninsula, and Egypt.

I tried doing a news search on any recent such incident, but couldn’t find anything. Usually it’s just some drunky or a drug smuggler or some moron who forgot to unpack their hunting knife from last season.

JMJ

]]> By: Micky 2 http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/2008/12/airlines-worries-and-priorities/#comment-11698 Micky 2 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:39:11 +0000 http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/?p=2355#comment-11698 Cannonballs point about changing profiles may hold some water since they are resorting to using the handicapped. I believe using the handicapped is a matter of efficiency since they are easily persuaded but they are also less likely suspect. Even if they were not running short on homicide bombers the handicapped make for a great cover. Still, if little green men are flying your planes into buldings it only makes sense to keep an extra eye on them. Anyone who says that they dont prejudge or discriminate is as dumb as those who believe it. Cannonballs point about changing profiles may hold some water since they are resorting to using the handicapped.
I believe using the handicapped is a matter of efficiency since they are easily persuaded but they are also less likely suspect.
Even if they were not running short on homicide bombers the handicapped make for a great cover.
Still, if little green men are flying your planes into buldings it only makes sense to keep an extra eye on them.
Anyone who says that they dont prejudge or discriminate is as dumb as those who believe it.

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