Originally Posted by
Uncle Bose
What was the point of relaying that anecdote? That's a hick flight attendant's paranoid reaction, and NOT what profiling is intended to be. One would have to be supremely naive to suggest that profiling is inherently unjust--every crime investigation involves some application of profiling. The issue is not that they "happen to look a little different and speak a different language to you." The issue is that they fit the religious and ethnic profile of terrorists who target western civilization. The idea that our enemies WANT "inclusion and equality" with us is absurd utopian nonsense.
Uncle Bose I'm not trying to say that placing people under more thorough scrutiny is wrong. What I'm trying to say is that people who aren't doing anything wrong and who are law-obiding citizens and who are fare paying customers and OUR FELLOW PILOTS should not be yanked off a plane on someone's moronic idea that the person was acting "suspicious". The muslims on those planes in Europe where who were hauled off the aircraft weren't doing anything suspicious, they were just speaking their native language! The people who complained to the airline officials who were responsible for getting the people thrown off are just like that Qantas flight attendant: stupid, ignorant and prejudiced. That's why I brought up that case to highlight the stupidity of these people.
Why don't we just not let anybody of Arab descent fly at all?? Hell while we're at it, lets stop people of palestinian origin and why not Indonesians too? I mean they're all terrorists, right?
I'm all for hightened scrutiny and more vigilance, but people being thrown off a plane for absolutely no good reason is totally unacceptable.