Politics – Why Racial Profiling Won’t Work

Forget the PC bull.

Start looking at young, swarthy middle easterners and the terrorists will look for someone to carry the bomb who isn’t part of the profile. Apparently people have forgotten who we’re up against. Organizations that shift tactics in response to our own.

If you narrow the focus of who you look at, they’ll slip around to find someone who is in your blind spot. Come on people, I thought some of you might be smarter than this. We need to keep a wide view, not narrow our focus.

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August 3, 2005

The problem is that most Muslims are arab. There are only so many white muslims and even fewer who are willing to kill themselves in an act of murder/terrorism.

August 3, 2005

And if they shift, then we add. You seem to forget that if they can react, so can we. But so far, they havent shifted like that, despite the fact that we understand who the majority of the risk (racially speaking) is. They have so far only tried to make theirs look more like they belong here, not change who they are.

August 3, 2005

That is a decent point. The shoe bomber on that airplane a couple of years ago was white, and no one was looking for a white terrorist.

August 3, 2005

The shoe bomber was not white. He was nationality British, but was Arab racially.