"Racial" profiling.

Submitted by Matt Kennel (United States), Jul 22, 2004 at 22:24

It is in fact true that so-called "racial" profiling has no current value in thwarting terrorism.

However, profiling by religion and national origin does.

How many Japanese buddhists have tried to kill Americans in the last few, uh, decade?

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