<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by *HyghFlyah*:
I was actually glad that the people searched did seem random - no minorities or certain racial groups were specifically targeted yesterday at SFO.</font>
Are you saying that our money is being squandered in searching 80-year old invalids and the likes -- just so that searches
appear to be random?
I sure hope that they're "profiling" heavily--and not only on age, disability, sex, travel history, criminal record, but also on country of birth, race, and any other trait that will make our dollars and limited resources more effective.
After all, that is what El Al does -- and I haven't seen anyone proposing that it be banned from flying into the US because of its "profiling" practices.
[This message has been edited by hillrider (edited 01-12-2002).]