Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
So far no-one in europe has been put in camps yet either. Although we have gone as far as to put segments of the population under close watch for no reason other than their parentage.
It's called screening. It's one of those damned if you do damned if you don't situations. If you want to be colour / age / gender blind you then end up wasting a vast amount of time and energy arresting 8 year olds / 90 year olds just to ensure that everyone is being equally treated. If you try to go for a subgroup based on age, gender, poverty level, education, geographical location, religion you will get accused of an -ism of one sort or other.

My father in the 1970's was often picked "randomly" for drugs searches as he had long hair and a beared (still does). He did ineffectually ague that drug smugglers might look less obviously like a hippie, but to no avail (hippies and biology PhDs do look very similar).