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Old 01-08-2009, 05:38 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus View Post
Remember that Twilight Zone episode - "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"?

At the end, it showed the two alien beings talking to each other and saying:
My favorite episode. A brilliant social commentary that will always hold true.
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OK, am I the only one who is sitting here thinking "We hear about this one incident on 'racial profiling' by 'randomly' picking a group of Muslim dressed people, but how many THOUSANDS of other people are randomly selected EVERY DAY that are NOT standing out in some way?" I mean seriously. I have traveled a bit since 9/11 and I see atleast one out of every 10 people taken out of line for 'random' checks. Hell I am as white as I can be: Blonde hair, blue eyes, etc...and I have several times been selected 'randomly' for checks. And since I am white, it isn't important. But when a person if of a different race or religion, suddenly it is racial profiling??? I am sorry, but I think that is a bunch of BS! It makes the news, it allows the media to AGAIN bring up something in the limelight because that is what the media thrives on. I mean come on. do you REALLY think that random searches come out once a day? there are THOUSANDS of them every day all over the world.

Now before I get flamed here, I am by no means saying that racial profiling is right. I am NOT saying that it doesn't happen, but EVERY TIME a person is 'randomly' selected, and they are different, everyone thinks that it HAS to be profiling!
This wasn't random, this was a family being removed from a flight because a bunch of Muslims were talking how close other planes were and made ignorant passengers uncomfortable. If white people said it, nobody would have given a shit. I was talking with a friend about the "can't say bomb on an airplane" bit from Meet The Parents last time I was in an airport and nobody cared because we were just a couple of white guys who looked ordinary except for being unusually tall. I got to Miami and found a .22 casing in my luggage (anyone who shoots will tell you that those fucking things end up everywhere) and had managed to get past security.
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