[quote=dumbrenter][quote=CA renter][quote=dumbrenter][quote=CA renter] And I’ve never heard of a white U.S. citizen taking over a commercial airliner in order to commit a terrorist act, yet they are the majority of people who are subjected to TSA screenings.
While I don’t really disagree with what you have to say, you might want to get educated a little about “white”ness of the terrorists who belong to the moslem faith (generally considered to be terrorists). There are millions of them who are racially white and have been moslem for generations. Additionally many of those from the Levant will easily pass for white. I wonder how you will be able to screen them out.
They might even be your neighbors!! I think you should start on a procedure for “white”ness test and you might even save us some taxpayer money.
That way you can have TSA grope all blacks (or is it still ni*&ers for you?), yellow people, slit eyes and all but leave your “white US citizen” alone.
You are correct about passengers on private flights not being subject to same level of inspection. You had my sympathy till you came up with this!
My apologies to other readers for this hijack.[/quote]
You are 100% correct, and I should have worded my post differently. When I said “white U.S. citizen,” I was referring to the “traditional white American,” going back multiple generations — the WASP-ish American (though including other Christian religions) and/or American of northern/western European decent. I’m sure you’ll find these descriptions offensive as well, and I apologize for that in advance. If you can find a better way to put it, please feel free to share it.
The point is that the vast majority of terrorists who hijack commercial airliners are Muslims, most often from the Middle East. Yes, this will bring about howls of criticism from those who believe we should never profile, but there has yet to be a more effective, cost-efficient way of screening people who are considered to be high risk. It is ridiculous that elderly grandmothers and young children are being subjected to this screening when they have never to my knowledge been involved in any hijacking event.
I also believe that any significant cultural changes have to come from within a particular group. Nobody wants to be told what to do by an “outsider” who doesn’t understand the culture, beliefs, and habits of a particular group. If enough law-abiding Muslims are inconvenienced to the point that they get sick and tired of the profiling, they might put more pressure on those who are causing the problems within their communities.
Of course, you might think it’s preferable to spend billions upon billions more so that we can be politically correct, but we can agree to disagree on that front.[/quote]
Hey it was you who was going to suggest the “white”ness required to waive the TSA screening. So far all I hear is something about a “traditional white american” who can prove they came here some generations ago.
Interesting…maybe everybody should carry a card that shows their genealogy…not sure if this applies to black folk who were offspring of rape and all (will they fall under your western/northern european category?). But going by what you are saying, I guess not.
Maybe we should enforce a total race segregation so we can save a few dollars on TSA groping. Do you think it is worth it?
Assuming your worst conspiracy theories are true, I’d rather throw my lot with the drones and TSA since I now know that all you are concerned about is saving a few dollars but endanger us all with your ignorant correlations between ethnicity and religion.[/quote]
No, I never suggested a “whiteness” test. What I said was that it was absurd that elderly “white” (would “Euro-American” or “WASP-ish” be preferable?) women and children were being groped by TSA agents for the sake of political correctness.
If you think that the people on this list match the description of the people from the above links, you’re insane. There IS a profile for terrorists, and we should be spending our precious and dwindling resources in pursuing those who are most likely to be terrorists, political correctness be damned! Not only that, but the fact that they are using this same political correctness to justify spying on (and possibly detaining, indefinitely) American citizens who do not in any way fit the profile of terrorists is completely and utterly wrong and totally unjustifiable.
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“Victor Asal, a political science professor at State University of New York at Albany, and Karl Rethemeyer, a professor of public administration and policy at SUNY at Albany, have studied 395 terrorist organizations in operation between 1998 and 2005, and Asal concludes, “What makes terrorist organizations more lethal is religious ideology. When you combine religion and ethno-nationalism, you get a dangerous combination.”’
