9.28.2004
Profiling Yusuf Islam
"The Cat" has an opinion piece in todays LATimes. The title: "Something Bad has Begun". I suspect the title is not his, because the tone and tenor of the article in which he recalls his and his daughter's recent, very unpleasant experience with the FBI is not condemnatory.
Had I changed that much? No. Actually, it's the indiscriminate procedure of profiling that's changed. I am a victim of an unjust and arbitrary system, hastily imposed, that serves only to belittle America's image as a defender of the civil liberties that so many dearly struggled and died for over the centuries.
I can't say that I disagree. Profiling, however hastily it was imposed, is in the instance of terrorism a necessary evil, Mr Islam. Necessary. There was no terror profiling before 9/11, and you can dang sure bet it was hastily imposed -- out of necessity. Whoever has a better, more discriminate idea of how terror-profiling can be accomplished, let's hear it.
As to the person who came up with the title, thanks! You miss the point. Something 'bad' began when the lives of 3000 innocent people were taken - indiscriminately - by 19 islamic terrorists.
"The Cat" has an opinion piece in todays LATimes. The title: "Something Bad has Begun". I suspect the title is not his, because the tone and tenor of the article in which he recalls his and his daughter's recent, very unpleasant experience with the FBI is not condemnatory.
Had I changed that much? No. Actually, it's the indiscriminate procedure of profiling that's changed. I am a victim of an unjust and arbitrary system, hastily imposed, that serves only to belittle America's image as a defender of the civil liberties that so many dearly struggled and died for over the centuries.
I can't say that I disagree. Profiling, however hastily it was imposed, is in the instance of terrorism a necessary evil, Mr Islam. Necessary. There was no terror profiling before 9/11, and you can dang sure bet it was hastily imposed -- out of necessity. Whoever has a better, more discriminate idea of how terror-profiling can be accomplished, let's hear it.
As to the person who came up with the title, thanks! You miss the point. Something 'bad' began when the lives of 3000 innocent people were taken - indiscriminately - by 19 islamic terrorists.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 5:01 AM 
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The same people who criticize testing as a means of categorizing (and thereby separating the cream of the crop from the wannabes and inferior) call profiling a deprivation of rights. These same people, incidentally, are generally the first to cry foul if their children get picked over by a non-deserving child and most definitely would point fingers if a terrorist got by because there was no profiling. Who ever said life was fair? Profiling, testing, etc. gets you where you need to be in the long run. JPillar
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