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Originally Posted by Fast Forward
Although you have a good (but obvious) point, you seem to be way off topic. "Control of the airport" I think is the subject, yes? You seem to be talking about spotting terrorists by the colour of their skin, any minute of the day. This thread is discussing how to control terrorists who enter the U.S. from abroad. You've missed that point I think.
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The point of the SSSS is not to impede only terrorists from entering, but also those who are already in. The searches are the same whether you are coming in from abroad or you are catching a domestic flight. So it doesn't matter if you've lived in the US for 20-something years, if you're skin is brown and your last name sounds middle eastern, you're a likely candidate for SSSS.
What I'm saying is that finding a terrorist based on origin/name/skin color is stupid. When the Oklahoma City Bombing happened, everyone thought it was a muslim, arab terrorist who did it, not some confused/angry average white american.
Even if you were gonna try to find a muslim person(for whatever reason), racial profiling can prove inneffective as muslims can *gasp* be of any descent/ethnicity.
So while "control of the airport" might be the subject, my argument is that Timothy McVeigh could've hijacked a plane instead of blowing up a truck, he just happened to be more proficient with explosives. Hell, the first attempt of an attack on WTC was done with a truck filled with explosives.
And if McVeigh had the means/desire to learn to fly, he certainly could've done so just like the 9/11 terrorists did, at any amateur aviation center.