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Originally posted by bilmore
There's a big difference between "valid identifier" and "predictor of behavior". If there were forty Arabs of swarthiness in the country, and your information said to look at swarthy Arabs, (what is "swarthy", anyway?), then you probably have cause to stop those you run into. Given that there are millions, though, I think you have a real constitutional problem treating them any differently from everyone else, even when you know that the next twenty terrorists are going to be swarthy Arabs. You are no longer dealing with a point of ID - statistically, you're not even close - you're treating the swarthiness as a predictor, and that's not allowed.
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Could we not get into a discussion about swarthy? I'm afraid of the return of Large Sweaty Hairy Man, and then Chris will come back too, and paigow will start posting again, and it will be....bad. Just bad.
