Originally posted by tiv: Tim McVeigh was a registered Republican => registered Republicans should be held under suspicion and searched regularly
Tim McVeigh was ONE person that did this. There are 1,000s of young middle eastern men killing innocent people. Thats why we should be profiling.
True. However, but how is regular white people, or hispanic or black people killing thousands of innocent people any different than a few "arabs" killing a few thousands of also innocent people? Is it that they just didnt decide to spread their murders out over a period of time instead of a day or two like terrorists? Is it me or do you just not hear too much of rapist/murderers/convict arabs (besides actual terrorists) in this country, especially when every criminal on tv is white/black/hispanic most of the time. These groups probably kill a few thousands themselves eh?
Racial profiling does work, but even if it catches every terrorist (if any) in this country its not worth thousands (tens of or hundreds of) of similarly complected people getting harrased for being themselves. Its very easy for non-arab or non-targeted group people to advocate racial profiling and claim that it makes society better, but how many of you face almost constant (and not just once or twice) and unfair profiling for your skin tone? Its very easy when the shoe is on the other foot, isnt it.
