Read the latest news about airport security? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/airport_security
I am sorry, but you have to admit that a potential terrorist will most likely be a person of middle eastern descent. You can call it discrimination or prejudice or whatever, but fact is fact. Why not have a special screening for these people at the airport and other security checkpoints? This will also be for their protection and not just ours. Is there a better solution or do we all have to live with this for the rest of our human existing lives? Because I am sure as hell we will never stamp out Al Qaida or terrorism, ever. I am not questioning their faith or belief. It is just a problem we need to address and it is a huge one. Never in my life have I thought of living in fear in our own land, until the 9/11 incident.
2007-11-14
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Well, this country has been hurt, badly and it has no where else to go but down, economically and morally. Are "they" really the terrorists we labeled them to be, or are we the invaders? Maybe we should rethink our foreign policy. Leave them the hell along, leave Israel the hell alone and take care of our own country and its people first. I watched Land Of The Brave the other day, and it was so sad. But that is the way this country treats its own vets & history has shown so. That's no way to take care of the people who have fought and die for this country. It's a shame !!!!! We are not the mighty U.S.A anymore, far from it. Let's rethink our strategy. Let's take care of our own people and our own problems first...But that might be too little, too late.
2007-11-14
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I do see your point. But unfortunately there are alot of Muslims who are white. There are also alot who have converted to that religion, and these are usually more likely to be brainwashed into being a suicide bomber. Also there are Hindu's, Sheiks and Christians who live in the Indian subcontinent, who cause no trouble to us.
2007-11-14 16:59:12
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answered by James M 4
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Look man, I was born and raised in the U.S. most of my family are either Marines or Marines that are retired! I was in the Austin airport waiting to go through the metal detector and send my things through the x-ray machine. A lady walked up to me and said "Congratulations" and handed me a card! I asked what did I win. She said you get to go over here and go through a more thorough search! I am Caucasian but I had not shaved for 2 days because I was on vacation! I'm white! Don't have dark colored skin at all! Not that that is bad but I'm trying to make a point. Any way. They take me to an area and make me strip down to my boxers and give them everything that I have! They X-rayed my clothes! Remember that almost every member of my family has been in the service for this country! My mother is an X cop! I have never been in trouble for doing anything against this country that I love! I was born and raised in the same city! I missed my flight because of this crap! I would be the first person to fight against anything or any kind of attack against this country! I was traveling to a really small town in Minnesota! I had to wait 8 hours to get on another flight that was going my way. Just because of the Homeland Security crap having to screen people in such a way that did not seem like profiling! Is that fair? I did not fit the profile of a terrorist in any way! Is that fair????? I mean they could have just ran me through the system and found out that I was not a threat! I would have been o.k. with it if they would have been speedy about it so that I didn't miss my flight! I missed the graduation that I was going there to attend! No apology no sympathy not nothing! I almost had to buy a new ticket! What kind of crap is that for a patriotic American citizen?
We need to withdraw our troops from every place that is not U.S. soil, close our borders, give American people the jobs back that have been taken by foreign trade, solve our own poverty problems, pay off our debt to the countries that we owe, and then and only then should we attempt to help the other countries that are in need! Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day teach him to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life! No more hand outs! Teach everyone to do for themselves! If they make it, cool if they don't, sucks to be them! People diss America and say that we stick our nose where it does not belong! More American soldiers have died helping other countries (THE FRENCH!) in places NOT AMERICA than have died in the wars on American soil! NORMANDY!!!!!! The French can suck it! If it was not for the U.S. France and most of Europe would be speaking German! I think that it is time for the U.S. to let everyone else fend for themselves! We should take care of our own and only our own! Close the borders as far as immigration is concerned!
2007-11-14 18:16:39
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answered by Anonymous
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http://www.snopes.com/rumors/woods.htm
Actor James Woods was on a flight shorty before 9/11. He said there were some Middle Eastern men on the plane that were acting suspiciously. He thought for sure they were going to hijack the plane. He said something to the stewardess, who had been thinking the same thing. When the flight was over, he reported it, but the airline didn't do anything about it because they thought it was "racial profiling". Turns out, the men he saw, he identified as some of the hijackers on 9/11. The link above details it. I also saw him talk about it on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
It just goes to show that there are times when something should be done, but the government doesn't do anything for fear of hurting feelings.
2007-11-14 18:22:36
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answered by ∞Infinity∞ 5
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terrorist experts all agree it is not if ,but when the next attack happens. airport security is a joke, witnessed someone years ago go thru and the screener just turned off the alarm. JFK airport with history of criminals working there. people can be bought off to look the other way. borders are wide open, everyone talks about Mexico but Canada has stops without agents that you go into a booth and call someone. the war on terror is a joke. we are getting killed because of oil/ haliburton. we did a half way job in Afghanistan. if they really cared they would put our money into our own country secure the borders, hire competent screeners both cargo and passengers, with appropriate technology. terrorists are crazy enough to kill themselves how do you stop someone like that?
2007-11-14 18:42:18
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answered by ben 2
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There is a terrorist group called Jemma Islamiya. They were in existence for over ten years before Al Queda. They were the ones behind the terrorist bombing on the island of Bali in Indonesia. And every member of that group is a Southeast Asian. Not an Arab or a Persian. So, your solution of profiling semitic looking people won't work.
2007-11-14 17:38:56
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answered by desertviking_00 7
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Your "simple solution"- is JUST THAT, -way too Simple. By Profiling ANY particular group because THEY could habor terrorists- you'll JUST invite Terrorists to select "Stereotypes" we would never EXPECT to blow up our cities, buildings- or Whatever!!! The Reality IS; there are "Malcontents" of EVERY Race, Creed & Color- who would LOVE to "go down in History" -as being the Idiots who took out the White House, or the Statue of Liberty- or whatever! Just put alittle $$$ in their hands, give them a Plan of how to do it (written perhaps- by someone like Bin Laden, thousands of miles away), and with any help at all from "Murphy's Law"- we'll ALL be gatherd around our TVs once again- watching Our Country go up in Flames..... So, -have you got any MORE "Simple Solutions..."? :(
2007-11-14 16:56:54
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answered by Joseph, II 7
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Well said Desertviking
2007-11-14 17:46:44
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answered by Charlotte's Dad 5
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Its scrambled eggs times , which means over easy times are over.
2007-11-14 16:32:12
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answered by Anonymous
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