Geee Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 American Thinker:With all the bad press the TSA has received recently, we can't be sure if the acronym stands for Transportation Security Administration, Touches Sensitive Areas, or Truly Scandalous Attention. But, for sure, its pat-downs and sci-fi radiation screeners give many of us another good reason to avoid the increasingly unfriendly skies. Yet while the TSA right now has supplanted the IRS as the bureaucracy we most love to hate, its policies are merely part of a longstanding cultural trend: the failure to recognize that the good of the many outweighs the good of the few.It's the same reason why certain cities, most notably London, are now surveilling their residents with thousands of video cameras. If you're not willing to administer punishment sufficient to deter all the criminally inclined save a few intractable miscreants, some of whom you can catch, the only other solution is to have an all-seeing Big Brother that can catch all. It's much like treating a cancer: If you cannot target just the affected tissue, the only other solution is to treat the whole body. Because the former is preferable not just in medicine, but also law enforcement, behavioral sciences specialists long ago developed the method called "profiling." Unfortunately, social-engineering specialists soon after discredited the universal application of profiling with a method called propaganda. Consequently, when we want to administer targeted treatment in the effort to thwart terrorism, we're told that it's "racial profiling" and beyond consideration. This is utter nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 profile baby profile good article and most of us with two grey matters brain cells to rub together KNOW that is a much better alternative than the current fiasco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Great article! Very well said, concise and on the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 American Thinker: Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses? November 18, 2010 Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses? By Selwyn Duke In reality, there are only two types of profiling: good profiling and bad profiling. What's the difference? Good profiling is a method by which law enforcement can accurately determine the probability that an individual has committed a crime or has criminal intent; bad profiling makes that determination less accurate. Good profiling considers all relevant factors -- age, sex, dress, behavior and, yes, race, religion and ethnicity -- without regard for political or social concerns. Bad profiling subordinates common sense, criminological science and security to political correctness. Good profiling is also fair. That is to say, it discriminates on the correct basis: If a group -- any group -- commits an inordinate amount of a given crime, it receives greater scrutiny. Period. Bad profiling is invidiously discriminatory. Moreover, why should Muslim's imperative of modesty be respected but not others people's? Not only do devout Catholics place a premium on the quality as well, but millions of other individuals find it very offensive to be exposed in front of strangers and groped. Yet we're told that the very group criminological science dictates should receive more scrutiny may receive less due to political correctness. And if this actually happens, it will be yet another example of de facto Sharia law in deference to an alien culture and dhimmitude for us infidels. ====== An excellent article, good comments as well. EDIT Pollyannaish! or Rheo! Thanks for moving my thread and y'all didn't even touch my junk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceRimmer Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 I'm not crazy enough to ever want to run for POTUS, but the first executive order I would issue if I somehow was sworn in would be an order for the cops, FBI and TSA to begin profiling and quit fondling 80 year old grannies in airports. Second executive order is to stamp out political correctness when it comes to the WOT and CAIR can go suck eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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