Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
Odd how I specifically asked why OTHER governments can't profile and the thread so far has dwelt on issues of American law. I stipulated at the get-go that we have political problems within our own borders, probably a result of a long history of racism. But in what way does this impair authority in other countries from profiling? Despite what TSORon says, terrorists do not come in "all shapes and sizes". At least not the terrorism which is the enemy in our current war. Who are all these other jihadists who are not mail and Muslim? I've never heard of them? Oh there were the religion zealots who tried to kill people in Japan in subways. I have a strong suspicion that TSORon is not going to encounter them coming through a security position. Same with IRA renegades.
Anyway, perhaps responses could be more germane to my question which is how US legal barriers against profiling affect anything but screening methods within US jurisdiction.
Who says racist profiling doesn't occur within or beyond US borders? It happens at home and abroad already.
It's clear enough to me that you don't mind harassing innocent males who believe in Islam even as the number of male believers in Islam engaged in acts of terrorism are a statistically insignificant number of persons. Not everyone is a fan of such bigotry (as you may welcome), not even beyond US borders -- just like not everyone a fan of some country or group of countries' killing of muslims beyond US borders and thus inspiring some forms of political zealotry. Political zealotry has a basis in reality, regardless of whomever is the target of whatever kind of political zealotry is resulting in disgusting behavior ranging from bigots' profiling at airports to the killing and maiming of innocent people referred to as "collateral damage" of sorts by whomever is doing the killing and/or maiming of such innocent people.
Show me a country whose people are all free from a history of bigotry and you've probably made up a country or are depending upon ignorance and/or revisionist history.