Profiling as Smeconish proposes is stupid

Submitted by Joe (United States), Oct 19, 2005 at 17:38

Has he never heard of colored contacts, hair dye, skin lightners? Telling a bad guy what type of security protections you are using is just dumb. I was in Viet Nam and everyone was checked since anyone (children, women, even other soldiers) since anyone could be carrying explosives, sometimes unwittingly. Anyone can get a uniform and just being in the military does not make someone immune from being a terrorist. Does Timothy McVey ring a bell?

Don't you think that the 9-11 terrorists would have beome blue eyed, blond beach bums if they could count on the type of security that Smerconish foolishly proposes. I know he thinks random checks are PC, but he an others need to realize that is a dumb point. Any terrorist is going to change his/her looks if it is known that only certian types are being checked. That is a fact.

---

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".