Racial Profiling for Terrorists: Good or Bad?

[Aenlic]

Doesn't even have to look like John Walker Lind. If we start profiling Arabs (more than we already do) to supposedly catch terrorists, then the terrorists who do look Arab in any way will simply recruit fair-skinned dupes and have them dye their hair blonde. They'll end up looking like every other bottle-blonde West Coast surfer dude.

Person in first class seat A1: "Nice tan, dude!"

Person in first class seat A2: "Yeah, I was in Maui catching some waves, bro!"

Boom.

[ChewieTobbacca]

Racial profiling is a great way to let your target know who not to send!

[Samurai Waki]

I don't like the idea of racial profiling... But, the changes I would make in the current security system we have right now, is don't profile 80 year old ladies and 5 year old kids. The shocker is, the last time I was at LAX there was a couple in their seventies, who were selected for a random search, and right behind them were 5 dudes, with wicked looking tattoos and two had full grown beards and dark tans, and weren't checked... my first thought was, hmmm.... wouldn't it be more appropriate to check them? and then I thought... Nobody suspects ma' and pa', especially the old man who was wearing an 82nd PIR WWII Vet Cap.

[Fragony]

Why not, if it are mainly arabs doing boom it is just common sense.

[Mithras]

Racial profiling is a great way to let your target know who not to send!

That's what I think. If we indulge in it then in the long run we'll leave ourselves open to some cleaver sod who choose the 16 year old blond gir who's actually a psychotic maniac