Originally Posted by Bart
Profiling is the Maginot Line approach to security. It presumes that the threat will only come from one direction. That's pretty stupid thinking. I thought the lesson-learned from 9/11 was to go beyond stupid thinking. From some of the posts in here, some folks are still determined to build another Maginot Line. Didn't work the French in World War II, and it certainly won't work for us today.
Think.
Did you read ANYTHING I wrote?
NO ONE said the threat would come from ONLY ONE DIRECTION!!! I specifically pointed out that I WAS NOT claiming that. Yet you completely ignored that, and proceeded to make your argument in response to something I specifically pointed out that I WAS NOT claiming. Your condescending admonition to for me to "Think", falls a little flat in light of the fact that you are arguing with me over points I DID NOT MAKE.
To deny that profiling has no place in security measures is to believe that a 90 year old Caucasian woman in a wheelchair, is as likely to be a threat as a 21 year old Arab named Mohamed fresh off the ship from Syria. That is simple NOT a resalable assumption.