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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Not that this doesn't sound like a bad idea, but ... air travel is a civil right?
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Isn't that
reductio ad absurdum*? I mean, you can argue nothing you do outside of your house is a civil right, so it's perfectly okay to ban such activities on whatever basis one sees fit. Eating in a restaurant or staying at a hotel is not a civil right either, but you can't ban people from doing so based solely on race. Or, for that matter, is driving a civil right--guess a roadblock for all blacks passes constitutional muster then.
The point is not that you're being prevented from engaging in an activitiy that's a civil right because of your race (nationality, etc.). IT's that you're being prevented from engaging in an activity that we regard as perfectly legal (flying), and therefore within the realm of liberty, and then denying it to some because of their background.
That said, I don't think any criminal screening program has to eliminate race, nationality, etc. from teh calculus.
*shit, I hope I have that right, what with your classics training and all.
