Should the TSA be allowed to profile?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

They should just have done and make everyone travel naked. The airlines could supply hospital gowns and paper slippers

Better include body cavity searches while you're at it. Someone might have a bottle of shampoo in a 'private place'.

Except that when you're naked, you're in too good a mood to kill anyone and so you never bother to pull out that plastic explosive you hid in your bum

[canuhandleit 0]

I love being put through every securtiy check possible at the airport... i usually give them a really hard time and express my feelings towards their statement "random security check."

[sarah and hicham 3]

I have no problem with having my bags checked or shoes taken off or bags swiped. TSA states that any bags are subject to search. As long as the people who are being checked are treated in a calm and professional matter, who cares.

As long as they don't eat the baklava

[JenT 0]

I love being put through every securtiy check possible at the airport... i usually give them a really hard time and express my feelings towards their statement "random security check."

So YOU'RE the one holding up the progress of the line and pissing everyone else off...

I'll introduce myself next time.

Except that when you're naked, you're in too good a mood to kill anyone and so you never bother to pull out that plastic explosive you hid in your bum

That might imply that you're hiding something ELSE in there... the batteries might set off the detector, though...

[canuhandleit 0]

I could deal with it if they just said "you are Muslim, you shall be put under extra security checks."

Don't give me that... "RANDOM security check!"

In my line there was 10 brown-skinned people, same amount of black-skinned people, and 2 white-skinned people. lmao.

[iceyspots 0]

I have no problem with having my bags checked or shoes taken off or bags swiped. TSA states that any bags are subject to search. As long as the people who are being checked are treated in a calm and professional matter, who cares.

As long as they don't eat the baklava

Dang! I wanted them to force me to open it and eat it kind of like how they are making mom's test baby forumla!!

hahaha

[Addie_Goodvibes 0]

ABSOLUTLY YES! For the security of our nation and the world, TSA should stop all suspicicous looking gun totin grannies and mischevious hyper children under 8.

TSA should profile there is a specific demagraphic and profile that terrorisy fit and TSA should foucs thier resources on that info, thats not to say that there are not some atypical caucasian or other races who could be potential terrorists.

[mawilson 2,133]

It's easy to support profiling if you don't fit the profile.

As someone who has been profiled (interrogated, searched, harassed, etc)

more than a few times, I am unequivocally against profiling.

(For those who are interested, I was profiled on work-related trips to Israel

as a non-Israeli / UK passport holder.)

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's easy to support profiling if you don't fit the profile.

Also true.

The other "obvious" side of the coin can be seen with regards to the police - where black males are still many times more likely to be stopped in the street or in their cars because of the assumption that blacks males are responsible for the majority of crime.

That's what makes profiling extremely suspect - because it is of course racist to make assumptions about a person based solely on ethnicity.

Edited August 30, 2006 by erekose

[VetsWife328 7]

DEFINITLEY YES!!!!!!!

[iceyspots 0]

DEFINITLEY YES!!!!!!!

wow... I'm really surprised..

/sarcasm

[*Robert* 2]

why not?

[Addie_Goodvibes 0]

Strip Search everyone! Except the gun packing grannies

[VetsWife328 7]

EVERYBODY has to go through them Security Checks so why is it that a certain group of ppl here feels offended again? (Iceyspots?!)

Hey they had my 5 year old take off his shoes...........

Yeah right someone will fly with kids and put an explosive in their shoes beforehand.

But yes it unfortunatley IS needed these days.

I hope to God that one day it wont be needed anymore but that day I guess is far off.

Nat

[iceyspots 0]

EVERYBODY has to go through them Security Checks so why is it that a certain group of ppl here feels offended again? (Iceyspots?!)

Hey they had my 5 year old take off his shoes...........

Yeah right someone will fly with kids and put an explosive in their shoes beforehand.

But yes it unfortunatley IS needed these days.

I hope to God that one day it wont be needed anymore but that day I guess is far off.

Nat

You don't offend me, I only stated my non-surprise that you would vote Yes.