Originally Posted by Wally Bird
Well that's what you get from ranting.
- Lockerbie was not an "incident", it was a f***ing atrocity.
- The Lockerbie bomb was in an unaccompanied bag.
- The incident you cite was an El Al flight from London and the bomb was discovered before the woman boarded. She was profiled.
Yes my account about the bag search was accurate.
I appreciate your corrections about Lockerbie. I wrote from memory and after a few years it could all become quite hazy.
But the point of the post was that profiling creates second class citizens. We both know what the rules should be. There is the real fear that when we protest we would get the dreaded "We will not let you fly today" comment.
First of all, there's not supposed to be any profiling whatsoever when it comes to random screening. It is supposed to be the next person according to gender.
That is probably true. However it appears that screeners have a fair amount of discression as to who they will secondary if the have a feeling about someone. It would be hard to differentiate that from profiling. Perhaps just like a cop who has a feeling somebody just doesn't belong there.