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ACLU Back Rush
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Originally posted by bilmore
What I meant was, do you want people who might be more suspicious of other people based on national origin? I'm guessing some would answer this by saying that national origin should mean nothing, that it is the "individual" circumstances which should be acted upon with discretion. (This example may not be clear, as such people would also fail in the "not smarter" category in my mind.)
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I'm saying that we need smarter, better-trained people making the decisions, and you're talking about the rules they follow. I don't want them to categorically ignore ethnic or national origin. But focusing on it would not have caught Richard Reid, or Jose Padilla.
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