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According to nthsa, you're right.

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/outr...1995/TT108.htm


Though that's still a far cry from being pulled over because he was a white guy with NRA stickers on his car (which I realize is not something that you said).

Profiling: (was 9/11, Gorelick something or other)
 

Have to run and can't give this the kind of attention it deserves, but.... I was thinking more of the squawking being done by Dems re: what the Bushies should have done....

Constitutional? You're talking about millions of Arabs "in the country" but are you including visitors and non-citizens? Also - if there was a warning that an upcoming attack was going to be brought on by a group of Muslims who have been in the U.S. a short time, why can't our government at least let field offices attempt (if they can) to hone in on the would-be perpetrators by investigating as many Muslims-in-the-country-less-than-one -year as they can? That would be profiling (even if it is only investigations), and even though it's really two factors (Muslim/In country less than one year), it's still the kind of profiling against Muslims that a lot are still bitching about.


Shit, I don't know. Not my term. Ask S....er....T.......

DK

PC Fuckers Unite!
 

You're right. My bad. Google confirms you are correct.

PC Fuckers Unite!
 

Wasn't he speeding?

eta: stp

Profiling: (was 9/11, Gorelick something or other)
 

I think the more sophisticated and complex your filters - i.e., the more factors you are subdividing by, like swart, time in-country, recent purchases of explosives, tirades at neighbors about how their corrupt infidel society is going to be QUITE SORRY next Tuesday morning at nine, so you don't really care if they play their goddam redneck Jewish music so loud, but maybe if you could turn it down a little - once you start doing that, you are identifying more and predicting based on protected areas less.

We have protected classes and categories purposefully, because, in the past, membership and groupings within those categories have been unfairly misused. We have decided, as a society, that, in order to avoid future unfair misuse, we will forego what might possibly be useful ID tools, and accept that drop in efficiency, in order to avoid more racial/religious/sexual/nationalistic strife.

That''s a policy decision, and we shouldn't jettison it easily.

Profiling: (was 9/11, Gorelick something or other)
 

I remember in the pre-9/11 world my favorite Stop-n-Go clerk, Javed, yelling angrily at a customer, "I'm not Mexican. I'm Pakistani!" I think he goes by Javier now.

Round up the usual suspects.
 

Just to stop the racial profiling thread from being a "You're right"/"No, you're right" love-in that's so unbecoming of this board, consider this little exercise in racial profiling.

A Southern police chief is approaching hundreds of black men in town, telling them they've been reported as "potential suspects" in a serial rapist case because they were "acting suspiciously," and suggesting that they could easily clear themselves by giving a DNA sample.

• "The suspect is a black man, and he needs to be caught," Turner said. "But the way the police are conducting this investigation, because the suspect is a black man, every black man is a suspect."

That about sums it up.

'DNA Dragnet' Makes Charlottesville Uneasy
{Spree: Today's WaPo. For-profit newspaper. Reg. required.}

Round up the usual suspects.
 

Totally different. We're talking about ARABS here.


(Or Muslims, but same diff.)

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They can't bill me if I never listened, right? This always seemed like a dumb idea to me.

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Here's Air America's response.

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Well, not a "bill." I think they characterize this as donations, in exchange for which you get a Jeanine Garofolo tote bag.

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Atticus, please pay your bill
 

With a slightly different spin, you must admit.



Well, you won't admit it, but still.

Atticus, please pay your bill
 

At least they have a sense of humor about it.