| | bt, re racial profiling. I don't understand why they don't tighten the profile even further and pick on Saudi Arabians. It's obvious that that's where the main problem is. They are 'friends' of the USA and they have the money from sympathetic sheiks, so they go swooping into the USA and Europe with no trouble. Well, it's time they got some trouble.
Of course they won't put a star on their shirt so we can easily identify them - they'll be disguised as some other nationality. So, we'll need an accent tester. Like all of us, Saudi Arabians and Yemenese must have an accent when they speak certain languages. So, as with breath-testing for alcohol, we could speech-test for the right sort of Arabic accent.
Randomly stop people who look kinda Arabic and get them to recite a verse from the Koran [which the police could carry with them if the kinda Arab-looking person doesn't have one]. The sniffer would detect whether it was the right passage and the right accent. Actually, that might be a bit tricky because they'd probably fake an American accent or something. My stupid phone often can't recognize the name of the person I'm trying to voice dial, so I doubt that a sniffer would be able to detect the right accent. But it would soften them up for...
... the lie detector test. Which would be the real purpose of the sniffer. Ask them questions while sniffing and hook up some electrodes to their arms.
Also, make all Arab aliens [and those were born elsewhere but have become citizens] have inserted into them a transmitter which would monitor their heart pattern and transmit the status and location to a server complex somewhere.
Any excess rush of blood would call the police to see what the heck is the problem and just what they are getting up to. They'd need to look for a waveform which doesn't involve exercize or roller coasters or marital harmony or there'd be call outs for all sorts of spurious reasons.
We already swap a lot of freedom for security. We have to carry passports, driving licences, get breath tested for booze, have safety checks on our cars and many other intrusions on our free movement and lives.
Then again, there must be a better way than that.
All we need is imagination, invention and will. That's what the terrorists use. We need to use more than they do. We have the numbers.
Meanwhile, we'd better do what's doable. Such as locking cockpit doors, which should have been done years ago. It used to fascinate me that I was sitting just behind the open cockpit door and I could just stand up, walk in with a small weapon and have an aircraft at my disposal. Of course I didn't warn the aircrew or airlines that this was a risk, because they are stupid people who would take that as a threat and I would be deemed a wacko dangerous nut-case. So I'd be gaoled and they'd continue with the same way of doing things anyway.
Yes, I suspect these ideas are not workable - well, the lie detector test is probably not bad for separating those who need further investigation from those who don't.
Mq |
|
