The TSA And Racial Profiling
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ballen0351
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Isn't that what people wanted?
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LOL, you think people actually want what they think they want?!
But it certainly beats feeling up infants and seniors...
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That's the point people are asking for things they have no concept of and when they get a glimpse of it they don't like it.
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yep.
Now quit scaring me! We still got a lot of 2012 left, stop agreeing with me!
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I think you're right. LOL, now that you mention it, its the same thing in the work place. People ***** and complain about things, calling for changes, yet, for some odd reason, they don't think about the aftermath of their changes. Go figure.
As for whether or not racial profiling is actually happening....don't know. I don't travel enough (Thank God!!!) to have to worry about too many 'feel ups' or dealings with the TSA, to really worry, however, I'm sure with anything, RP will happen, amongst some of the officers.
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Shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Racial profiling isn't limited to the airports; it's also a fact of law enforcement life on the streets. Some say that it's not about the "race" of the various groups targeted, but that it's just good common sense. Middle Easterners tend to commit terrorist acts, Latinos/Hispanics tend to run drugs, and Blacks tend to be generally criminally inclined. Or so goes the rationale.
Did I leave anyone out?
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You know what I look for most often. A car with 3 or more white people usually 1 female with tags that come back to a town at least 35 min away sitting in a grocery store parking lot but not going inside 9 out of 10 tines they are waiting for dope
Jews control the banks.
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and industry and the communist party...
And the media...
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And all the best sandwich shops
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I've lived in Boston most of my life and do not find that to be true. I've found the concept of others saying that to be true, but not prejudice itself. At least not more than any other place in country.
As for any profiling that takes place at Boston's Logan Airport - I sure wish they had been doing that eleven years ago.
Also, in my opinion, everyone profiles in their daily life. Everyone.
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They always seem to stop the elderly female or way overweight handicap kid the few times I have watched them... No rhyme or reason from what I saw...
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I lived in Cambridge for almost two years, and spent a fair amount of time in Boston. I liked it. That said, as a fairly well traveled, black New Yorker, it's easily the northeast city where I encountered the most prejudice-and I've actually encountered far less in my visits to some southern cities, so I'll stand by my statement.
As to profiling, just becuase everyone does it, doesn't make it right.
As to 9/11, while I can understand the sentiment, it likely would not have accomplished anything-"Arabs" weren't on the radar, really-there was no TSA, just "rent a cop" security (not that the TSA is any different)-and those guys had made efforts to fit in.
Here's Mohammed Atta, the so-called "leader" of the 9/11 criminals, on 9/11:
Probably didn't raise any more eyebrows than his box-cutter did.
More's the pity, though: these guys were on our radar, and we just weren't paying enough attention.
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Same reason PETA does not protest bikers wearing leather or the NYC Anti Carriage people don't go after mounted cops: You pick the target least likely to kick your a$$.
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