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December 13, 2010

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A high school student

Thank you Mr. duke for this article. It is by far one of my favorites. Thank you for giving me ammunition to fight the leftist "political correctness" bull hockey that I am subjected to today. It has been far too long that I have been called a bigot because I oppose the Islam faith. I have my own reasons and they are rational ones. You are exactly correct in your analysis that the government has no common sense. What they lack in that department, they pay up in spades in ignorance and sheer stupidity. This is a very good rebuttal and I will take this to heart. Keep on fighting the good fight Mr. Duke and have a merry Christmas! :)

Philip France

I wish to expand on the following comment from Selwyn's poignant article:

"And if CAIR will not say the same, they arouse suspicion and deserve more scrutiny themselves."

CAIR deserves a great deal of scrutiny and for a lot of reasons. I recommend reading "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry. Gaubatz' son infiltrated CAIR and obtained scores of documents linking CAIR to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas as well as their intents to abuse our courts to bring about Sharia in America.

I also recommend to Selwyn's readers to visit www.actforamerica.org and subscribe to their online publication and to donate.

Another valuable source is Robert Spencer's www.jihadwatch.com. It's worse than you think.

Lastly, Family Security Matters is at the cutting edge of fearless reporting on radical Islam. You may find critical articles by such stalwarts as Andrew McCarthy and Eric Stacklebeck in their archives.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

yoyo

Unfortunatley this article has all the failings of the ill informed. This is MY industry, where you should be railing against the dangerous backskatter screening regimes of rapiscan you think you can replace it with racial profiling.
Let's face it, my passport does not state may religion (or more accurately lack thereof), yet one of the most dangerous jihardists in my country is a sandy haired pale skinned mother of 5 previously known as Debbie.
The Israeli version of profiling (NOT racial/religious but BEHAVIOURAL) is a more accurate but hard to sustain in a country of your size with low education standards.
Think through the practicalities and your amazing strengths, Americans have amazing data managing ability so who has been to Syria, or Saudhi or Pakhistan recently? Who is travelling with no checked baggage and no obvious reason for doing so. As mentioned in selwyns piece I would probably pay more attention to males in their 20's but not exclusively.
Finally, look at the physical, we need to reduce queueing at security becuase that's a danger spot for crowd detonation, we need to review the new technologies like bag drop very carefully because they seperate identity from flight data, in any decent sized airport their are up to 10,000 people with aviation security passes who are seldom checked, bring in random full screening for staff like me.

I know it's cute to play

    the stupid
security card but take a few mins to think it thru. Even at a basic level most people could work out that you can do more damage to a city and it's people by destroying the sirport that a single plane.

A high school student

What Mr.Duke is saying Mr.Yoyo, is that "profiling" in this sense is not the "politically correct" incorrect term. I may be hearing your argument wrong, but the Mr. Duke's profiling is based on behavior. It is logical to assume that people that are associated with an ethnic group or religion would share similar behavior. I am not saying that everyone in a particular group acts exactly the same. It is logical however to see that people are influenced by the group that they associate themselves with by a majority of factors (these factors are commonly known, but I will not go into them because I tend to ramble). Therefore If a particular ethnic group or religious institution exhibits a particular kind of behavior, the people associated with the group will likely (but not always) exhibit the same type of behavior. Thus, if a culture is famous or notorious because due to common values or actions that they carry out on a daily basis, a person from that culture would follow in a similar manner. I do have a quick question for you? Is part of your blog cut out becuase the last few sentences are hard to make out. If you could clarify I would appreciate it. Have a merry Christmas to all and wish me luck on my finals. :)

John

High School Student, yoyo is a very confused woman who used to post here regularly. She also just proved Mr. Duke's point. She says in her post 'I would probably pay more attention to males in their 20's' but then seems to have a problem paying more attention to Muslims. What a maroon.

yoyo

John and high school student, point one as i may not have made clear there is no easy way to identify who is a muslim from the information given at time of ticket purchase or when going through the various security steps at the terminal, point 2, due to the new checkin processes ticket purchase is seperated from identity, anyone can fly doemstically as anyone else - so that doesn't get you any where, point 3 look at what we do know (and here I partially agree with selwyn) we do know that most terrorists are young males not grandmas, however as israeli security and many other successful testing regimes have shown there are more significant markers that COULD be profiled. For example: are they making a long trip without baggage? have they recently been to one of the hot spot countries (for internat. travellers only? do they look fidgetty or glazed? etc etc

Skillful use of security makes us all safer, careless and clumsy security not only makes us more at risk EG by big queues at screening points and takes away our civil liberties and costs us all a huge amount.

yoyo

Finally for highschool student, i have a little trouble posting cleanly here because I can only see the right half of the text comment box, I presume it's some glitch with your site, my server or the browser I use. I apologise if it is hard to read.
PS John thinks all people who have somewhat different political beliefs to his own are therefore suffering from both cognitive failure and a lack of good will and good faith. I'm not sure how christian that idea is but there you have it.

Philip France

I have often been adverserial with Yoyo but she makes some valid points with regard to cargo security and airport security where screening takes place. This reinforces Selwyn's points in his article: there is good profiling and there is bad profiling. No one, on either side of this argument thus far has disputed that profiling is absolutely necessary. My suggestion is to demonize the combination of the words "racial/ethnic" and "profiling".

To simplify, the TSA mistake is that they profile things rather than people. Explosives, guns, any weapon for that matter are harmless inanitmate objects absent human motive to do harm. Yoyo made a correct observational statement to this affect. We need to study, and profile, behavioral traits (such as booking long flights with little or no luggage).

Additionally, we must also single out Moslems (both men and women) for unique scrutiny. You heard me right. It will be then that we can stimulate the wrath of the overwhelmingly peaceful Moslems (by having them endure humiliating scrutiny) to turn on and expose their radical bretheren. It is my beliefe that the peaceful Moslems fear their radical bretheren worse than we (the non-Moslems) do. Let's provoke their outrage by strip-searching them based on the overwhelming fact that ALL modern terrorists are Moslem.

Case closed. Problem solved. Allahu Akbar.

jbailey

One of the gravest mistakes we can make, is to assume terrorist are stupid. Everytime I hear a news commentator, cspan governmental conference, or any other outlet..spouting off what we do to detect terrorist, I cringe. Of course we should scrutinize "things", as well as behavior. Should we let them know what we are doing? Hell no. The Israelli methods depends highly on expertise, training, and skill of the examiner. There is no question in their minds as to the loyalty, devotion, and love of country of their examiners. For us it is a different story. It only takes one loyal, devout Muslim to "wake up" to the fact that, as an examiner, he is "scrutinizing" one of his own. Would he or she, on a personally bad day, for whatever reason..look the other way, or feel nothing, or see nothing. Rewards in paradise may be "greater" for him, than the one carrying the surgically implanted device, or the vaginally or anal placed explosive substance. The Israellis connect the dots, see relations, and are not "blinded" by consideration of politically correct "hockey crap". How many surveys have been done of "possible extremist" within a radial distance of some of our key centers or military bases? How many coastal motels and hotels have been queried as to numbers of "possible extremist" registered or screened staying there...or even owned. "Common sense" would dictate to me that only "criminals", a favorite Holder term for a terrorists...would have to worry about being scrutinized from whatever method. It is not the loss of liberty or civil rights we should be concerned about, but the allowance of whatever resonable and technical method used to detect someone who might cause the deaths of many, or even one. I have a hard time believing a method of detecting a terrorist would in any way, threaten our liberty or civil rights on a general basis. I can guarantee you, they threaten criminals and possible terrorist.

Babe Huggett

Islam isn't a race so profiling Moslems isn't racial profiling.

yoyo

It's also impossible to profile for unless you decide to look at "arabic" style dress. Many ultra orthodox Jewish women wear scarfs, coptic chritians frequently dress in the long white pajama style gear (sorry i have forgoten how to spell this item), Indonesian Muslims dress the same way as Indonesian Christians etc etc. As I'm now walking over to yet another terminal maybe you can enlighten me on how i pick someone's religious faith based on their appearance? My husband has a beard but is a total atheist should he be profiles as a muslim?

I just hate taking my stilletos off - thank you Richard Reid NOT. Gee very muslim name that one wasn't it?

Philip France

The Israelis have a remarkable record for airport security in spite of the fact that they are surrounded by fanatics that want them all dead. How do they do it? Pscyhological profiling. It CAN be done and it MUST be done. No more liberal excuses.

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