Profile Me, Please
07/28/2005 11:40 Filed in: Culture Watch
The US official policy of not profiling at airports may come back to haunt us in more ways than one...
I first heard about the incident described below on John Dvorak's blog .
Our political correctness has now officially run amok. I could easily imagine my mother or grandmother having the same reaction if she were groped by a total stranger. And that leads to the real question, Why are we spending time searching 62-year-old women when all terrorists have been male, and every terrorist act involving airplanes has been committed by males of middle-eastern descent?
This has now become ridiculous. Tell you what... if there's ever an APB out for someone matching my general description, I hope that I'll be searched and not my mother instead. Guess what? I won't be offended. And I won't be upset. You know why? Because I won't have anything to hide. If a person is doing what he or she is supposed to be doing, getting searched because you fit a certain profile should be no big deal.
I would hate to think that another terrorist act might be committed via one of our airports because security screeners were patting down a grandmother and while doing so let a person matching the profile of past terrorists slip on by!
I first heard about the incident described below on John Dvorak's blog .
Our political correctness has now officially run amok. I could easily imagine my mother or grandmother having the same reaction if she were groped by a total stranger. And that leads to the real question, Why are we spending time searching 62-year-old women when all terrorists have been male, and every terrorist act involving airplanes has been committed by males of middle-eastern descent?
This has now become ridiculous. Tell you what... if there's ever an APB out for someone matching my general description, I hope that I'll be searched and not my mother instead. Guess what? I won't be offended. And I won't be upset. You know why? Because I won't have anything to hide. If a person is doing what he or she is supposed to be doing, getting searched because you fit a certain profile should be no big deal.
I would hate to think that another terrorist act might be committed via one of our airports because security screeners were patting down a grandmother and while doing so let a person matching the profile of past terrorists slip on by!