Racial Profiling, WAS RE: [Shotimes] Fwd: Fwd(2): Buying Gas from Middle East terrorists. Let's not do that anymore. Se...

[Chris Cassino]

To ensure we Americans never offend anyone - - - particularly

fanatics intent of killing us - airport screeners will not be allowed

to profile people.  They will continue random searches of 80 year old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret

Service agents who are members of the President's security detail,

85 year old Congressmen with metal hips and Medal Of Honor

winning former Governors.

Lets pause a moment and take the following test:

 

In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and

massacred by:

    (a)   Olga Corbett

    (b)   Sitting Bull

    (c)   Arnold Schwartzenegger

    (d)   Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1979 the U.S. Embassy in Iran was taken over by:

    (a)   Lost Norwegians

    (b)   Elvis Presley

    (c)   A tour bus full of 80 year old women

    (d)  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

During the 1980s, a number of Americans were kidnapped in

Lebanon by:

    (a)   John Dillinger

    (b)   The King of Sweden

    (c)    The Boy Scouts

    (d)   Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1983 the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

    (a)   A pizza delivery boy

    (b)   Pee Wee Herman

    (c)    Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day

    (d)   Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year

old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:

    (a)  The Smurfs

    (b)  Davy Jones

    (c)  The Little Mermaid

    (d)  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1985 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy

diver was murdered by:

    (a)  Captain Kid

    (b)  Charles Lindberg

    (c)   Mother Teresa

    (d)  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

    (a)   Scooby Doo

    (b)  The Tooth Fairy

    (c)   Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of

          dynamite.

    (d)  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed for the first time by:

    (a)   Richard Simmons

    (b)   Grandma Moses

    (c)   Michael Jordan

    (d)   Muslim male extremist mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1998 the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:

    (a)   Mr. Rogers

    (b)   Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems

    (c)   The World Wrestling Federation fo promote it's next villian:

          "Mustapha the Merciless"

    (d)   Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

On 09/11/01, four airplanes were hijacked, destroyed and

thousands of people were killed by:

    (a)   Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd

    (b)   The Supreme Court of Florida

    (c)   Mr. Bean

    (d)   Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:

    (a)   Enron

    (b)   The Lutheran Church

    (c)   The NFL

    (d)   Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:

    (a)   Bonny & Clyde

    (b)   Captain Kangaroo

    (c)   Billy Graham

    (d)   Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 & 40

Hmmm   .   .   .   nope, no patterns anywhere to justify profiling.

 
Just me stirring the pot.....
 Ian Fisher <ianf@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:Yes..It was an American and a Jamaican. Are we supposed to ban McDonalds
and Jerk chicken spices now? (Jerk- Jamaican spice). Since when do the
actions of some people become representative of EVERYONE or EVERY aspect
of a particular ethnicity or background? Answer: never. It's dangerous
to think that way.

The logic is flawed; your example proved my point better than I did..

Ian


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:11 PM
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terrorists. Let's not do that anymore. Se...


Your opinion is as valid as mine ;>) but its not the Canadians,
Russians or hispanics that are blowing (or sniping) people up..........
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Fisher" 
To: "'Peter Maggiacomo'" ; 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Fwd: Fwd(2): Buying Gas from Middle East
terrorists. Let's not do that anymore. Se...


> Please...this is all BS...Even if it had any truth to it, the logic is

> flawed. This forward is just a "not so cleverly disguised" form of 
> prejudice.
>
> Ian
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