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I don't care if you screen everybody, and make 'em fly naked. It's an efficient security solution. Or screen nobody more than we did on 9/10, and take your chances. It's at least a consistent rationale, with an effectiveness proportionate to costs.
To say we'll look at shoes and make everyone open their laptops and ban lighters, but we'll let cameras with flashes and certain other electronic devices on without special scrutiny, or to say we'll randomly check everyone without profiling, so that three middle eastern males with Saudi passports have the same chance of being screened as three Irish nuns, is ****ing absurd.
Who said "limited" to brown people? "Focusing on" is not the same as "limited to." If there is specific intelligence developed that Irish nuns are now a potential threat axis for terrorist attacks on airliners, then throw Sister Mary and her henchwomen on the "brown" list.
Meanwhile, *******s with prison records who converted to Islam in prison and changed their names and went to Pakistan should probably get a bit higher scrutiny than Sister Mary or your or my mothers. So should the nice, clean-shaven Saudi gent in his 30's.
In other words, instead of throwing darts at a dartboard in the bottom of a coal mine at night while wearing a blindfold, concentrate inspections and extra security on those people who are in the same demographic groups as the known and anticipated threat axes.
So yeah, we don't have white supremacist anti-ZOG militia nutjobs wanting to fly airplanes into buildings or drop them over the ocean. They have a different set of priorities - mostly jacking off over the next issue of SOF magazine.
We do have almost exclusively middle-eastern and Indonesian Moslems who want to do that, however. Yes, they're making recruiting efforts outside their little group, but, gee whiz, we have intelligence agencies monitoring that, and revising threat assessments based on those efforts. God forbid that we should use that as the basis for prioritizing our security response, because we might offend someone who feels unfairly lumped in with the bad guys. Instead, to make everyone feel good about what a great country we are, we should just check people at random, so we can have waste, inconvenience and reduced security all shared equally among us.
To say we'll look at shoes and make everyone open their laptops and ban lighters, but we'll let cameras with flashes and certain other electronic devices on without special scrutiny, or to say we'll randomly check everyone without profiling, so that three middle eastern males with Saudi passports have the same chance of being screened as three Irish nuns, is ****ing absurd.
Who said "limited" to brown people? "Focusing on" is not the same as "limited to." If there is specific intelligence developed that Irish nuns are now a potential threat axis for terrorist attacks on airliners, then throw Sister Mary and her henchwomen on the "brown" list.
Meanwhile, *******s with prison records who converted to Islam in prison and changed their names and went to Pakistan should probably get a bit higher scrutiny than Sister Mary or your or my mothers. So should the nice, clean-shaven Saudi gent in his 30's.
In other words, instead of throwing darts at a dartboard in the bottom of a coal mine at night while wearing a blindfold, concentrate inspections and extra security on those people who are in the same demographic groups as the known and anticipated threat axes.
So yeah, we don't have white supremacist anti-ZOG militia nutjobs wanting to fly airplanes into buildings or drop them over the ocean. They have a different set of priorities - mostly jacking off over the next issue of SOF magazine.
We do have almost exclusively middle-eastern and Indonesian Moslems who want to do that, however. Yes, they're making recruiting efforts outside their little group, but, gee whiz, we have intelligence agencies monitoring that, and revising threat assessments based on those efforts. God forbid that we should use that as the basis for prioritizing our security response, because we might offend someone who feels unfairly lumped in with the bad guys. Instead, to make everyone feel good about what a great country we are, we should just check people at random, so we can have waste, inconvenience and reduced security all shared equally among us.
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