Originally posted by sigma:
Originally posted by jthursby:

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Sigma,
Jesus Christ, put the profiling thing to rest. It's stupid.


Then when that method didn�t work but for one or two people, he resorted to sarcasm.
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Sigma,
I guess "we" only implies Christian-Americans.


When he knew EXACTLY what I meant by the statement.
And then more sarcasm instead of ideas.

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Sigma,
Because, you know, there are millions of Muslim-Americans in this country too that would have their lives altered in some way using your great idea.
So I guess the terrorist would still "have won".





Um, that wasn't sarcasm.

Your "idea" was that we should yank out all Muslims as part of your "profiling" so that "we", as Americans, would not "have our lives altered in any way" by having to go through extra security.

That statement totally ignores the fact that you would be "altering the lives" of millions of Muslim-Americans with your "idea".

Hence my question if by "we", in the "we should not have our lives altered" referred to just Christian-Americans (though I suppose "non-Muslim-Americans" would have been a better description).

If your line of logic is that "if we alter an American's life the terrorists have won" then simply be executing your plan the terrorists have "won" because there's always going to be some innocent American who will be slightly inconvenienced by any change in security protocols.

Originally posted by jthursby:
Then we change our previous statement but add something to make it look not quite as hypocritical as it should.

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Sigma,
Like I said, profiling works when you know what you're looking for.



Which is it? "Jesus Christ, put the profiling thing to rest its stupid", or "Like I said, profiling works when you know what you're looking for"



The whole cut-and-paste out-of-context thing. The first quote was made in regards to the type of profiling suggested here. The "if we just look at every Muslim we're bound to catch them all" mentality. The second quote is in reference to the type of profiling that actually does something; as said in the quote -- profiling when you know what you're looking for.

I didn't change anything. I said that profiling works when you know what you're looking for WAY early in my posts. Hence the "Like I said" in the post that you quoted, that was referring to an earlier post.

Have you not yet figured out the difference between the type of profiling suggested in this thread by the likes of you and the type of profiling that actually gets things done? I don't know how else to make it any clearer for you. You seem to be the only one that doesn't get it.

I get it just fine, I have from the start. We were both talking about profiling in one way shape or form. Your arrogance must block your powers of deduction. One word my friend, Hypocrite. You can twist it any way you want. Make whatever snide comments you like about my ability to read and understand your bombastic literary. We were probably closer in idea than than you thought, had you cared to look. I'm done.

Jim T.

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