Originally Posted by
janetdoe
I was referring to documented cases of probes and dry runs documented by FAMs, e.g. "Flight 327". But yes, I guess you could say I myself am guilty of wanting to test and understand the limits of 'airport security' when I use my Nexus card and refuse to play the "name game".
Granted on all counts.
Although I have to say that the "homocidal" is a very ambiguous term. Garden-variety violent crime (the type that fills American prisons) is quite separate, in my mind, from "religiously/politically motivated acts of terrorism", and I wouldn't necessarily say that one was related to or a predictor of another. Does your "generally underrepresented" reflect the racial makeup of known terrorists or of criminals convicted of homocide?
Two easy examples are Timothy McVeigh and the Underwear Bomber (white and black, IIRC) so obviously terror is not restricted by race. But it is impossible to deny the strong ties between the current brand of terrorism aimed at US airlines and the Middle East.
To say that racial profiling is effective and to say it is "effective state policy free of association with negative, longer-term repercussions" are two completely different arguments. It is disingenuous to imply that failing to provide unimpeachable evidence of the latter disproves the former. It is extremely difficult to provide "unimpeachable evidence" of being "free of negative long-term repercussions" and if that were a reasonable standard, then Tylenol and Aspirin wouldn't be approved by the FDA.
Are you really trying to refer to an Annie ("the bigot") Jacobsen-peddled story about NW Flight 327?
Racist profiling at airports and on airplanes has even failed to work reliably for the racist profiling advocate's idol/holy cow since even their idols/holy cows have repeatedly cleared terrorists to fly.
Effective contraband WEI interdiction to secure my flights doesn't require that passengers on my flights be harassed by racist profiling advocates like Annie Jacobsen or those she too supports.
There are "strong ties between the current brand of terrorism aimed at US airlines and" .... Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America too. Actually when it comes to threats to US airlines, most of the "strong ties" "abroad" in the past several years are rooted in parts of the world that are not in the Middle East. Some of the biggest post-9/11 airport/airplane scares peddled by government actors in this regard have had to do with parts of Asia that aren't in the Middle East or Europeans of non-Middle Eastern ethnicities.