When your transit security targets amount to "They all look a certain way"

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2 NYC Officials Call for Racial Profiling

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

dov hikind is a perpetual hemorrhoid on the horse's ass of NYC politics. he's the worst sort of hustler, a borscht-belt version of al sharpton (without any of sharpton's virtues).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

not to mention that many israeli sephardic jews -- and even some italian-americans -- would "look a certain way" to a particularly boneheaded transit cop.

god, these 2 are the two cheeks on the same horse's ass.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

A full 50% of the bombers in the last London attempt were African. And the NYPD already has a shoot-to-kill policy for Africans!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

as a caucasian female I feel unempowered by this; I can blow stuff up and be a terrorist as well as any arab man!

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but you probably won't

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Strange NYT editorial last week: it pretended for a moment that it was in favor of profiling "young, Muslim men" (wouldn't we have to make them wear crescent moons on their clothes?), but then listed a bunch of very-reasonable behavioral-profiling stuff -- young men, young men who look or smell like they've recently performed ablutions, young men talking to themselves in ways consistent with reciting prayers, etc. All of which shouldn't need an NYT editorial in their favor: that's just basic reading of people's behavior!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/people/moussaoui.jpg

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

%5 percent of New Yorkers look like that guy

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

%5 percent of New Yorkers look like that guy

HIYO!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

BTW, isn't this susceptible to a google search?

ILX is now targeted for surveillance!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

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