| How then do you find people?
Even today, something tells me that the people who were busted trying to blow up those flights this morning weren't named Tom Mills and Johnny Stevens and such. You are going to be seeing alot of Abu Mohammed and such when those names are released.
Fact: Islamic fundamentalists are using the racial tolerance and non-discrimination policies of any kind in the US and Western nations to infiltrate them with the intent of committing acts of terror.
In light of that, how the hell do you root them out without compromising one of our freedoms or another? Do you just ignore everyone's background and race, and pray to God that you catch the next plot before it blows up in your face, or do you actively pursue certain ethnicities/religions to make sure they are on the straight and narrow?
The main enemy of the US today is no longer endless formations of Soviet tanks, nor even the countless well-trained infantry of China, nor the missiles of North Korea. It is fanatical religious believers who are average people, for the most part, except that they think killing Americans gets them virgins in heaven and they are smart enough to build bombs out of very common shit.
We have to do something to identify folks like that. Its a shitty, shitty thing when terrorists are, in essence, defeating the military and economic might of the West through fear of attack - by forcing their governments to erode the freedoms that made them great in the first place, in order to attempt to locate them. A lose lose situation all around. No profiling, we constantly live in fear of someone slipping in and detonating a bomb at the Super Bowl or some shit. Profiling, and we've just pissed on one of the great freedoms of the US, but we stand alot better chance of catching someone who might be trying to kill people.
Racial profiling is wrong, it screams against everything I believe is right; but something has to be done, and it is hard to fight an enemy who can turn your greatest strength into your greatest vulnerability. | 