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Originally posted by Spanky
So if there are hundred people entering onto a plane and six are males from Lebanon with their six wives who are wearing headscarf’s and the other eighty eight are all Caucasian Christians from Midwest - , who gets the extra search - should it be random?
Give me a break. Of course those twelve people from Lebanon may hate Islamofascists more than I do. They may even have had relatives killed by Islamofascists. But that is beside the point.
The point is probabilities. The odds that the Midwesterners are terrorists is probably one in one hundred million and the odds of the Lebanese being terrorists are one in one hundred thousand. The safety of travelers is increased when you accept that those are how the statistics work and you don't sit in denial of them.
What do you think the odds are of the next terrorist attack on an airliner being done by a person who is not a male of Middle Eastern descent? Doesn't it makes sense to keep searching all males of Middle Eastern descent. Yes you will give extra searches to a lot of innocent people, but you will be a lot safer.
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The more you talk about how reasonable it is, the worse it sounds.
And as for statistics:
Timothy McVeigh
John Walker Lindh
John Reed
