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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
What do you mean "pick up someone"? What bothers you about that? We're not talking about picking someone up and throwing them across the room, or picking someone up while simultaneously beating them with the Yellow Pages.
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I personally think that some degree of profiling is necessary. This statement, though, reminds me of the slightly different point that part of the reason "pick[ing] up someone" bothers some people is that when pulling people aside for additional questioning, we often don't do this very well.
See, e.g., the problems with the no-fly lists. I think I recall hearing stories about lawsuits raised by some people who have names similar to (but different than) suspected terrorists*, and they get pulled over and questioned extensively
every time they fly. They complain about being treated like criminals every time they want to travel. How true this is, I couldn't tell you, but I don't doubt that it really sucks if you want to go anywhere.
Gattigap
* Actually, I think there was one fellow who had an identical name to some miscellaneous badguy. The TSA told him he should change his name. Niiiiiiice.
