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To: Tony Viola who wrote (143626)	9/18/2001 1:13:46 AM
From: reynoso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - This is an interesting viewpoint - ". If that means, using my example, referring to a suspect as "Italian looking", instead of saying "looked to be swarthy; curly hair; nose like, well, you know, a Roman nose"...by that time the suspect is two counties away. " In the city where I live, the local TV news folks, when discussing crimes and their perpetrators, will always identify suspects as "whites" or as caucasians or occasionally hispanics if that is how witnesses describe them. However, if the suspects are black, the news reporters NEVER MENTION this - instead, they post a picture or a sketch obviously depicting a black person - but make no verbal comment - just show the picture ! Just another example of political correctness on local TV ! Reynoso

To: Tony Viola who wrote (143626)	9/18/2001 7:20:48 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Tony, Whoa, I didn't say you were in favor of it. Consequently, your replying post had nothing to do with my point, which was: RE: "There is no need (for anyone) to be racist against innocent people that live in this country to get the guilty parties. Absolutely no excuse. I don't see what purpose it serves to treat innocent Muslims/Arabs in this country poorly, killing a gas station attendent just because of his religion, or hurting innocent children at school just because their name sounds Muslim. " Could you reply to my point above please? RE: "PC" I don't think anyone had an issue with what you described. PC doesn't mean you can't provide useful identification information. RE: baseball bat Let me make an attempt at bringing yours, mine, and everyone's points together in some type of fashion here: Tightening up security isn't the complete fix (Tim's point: anyone can do anything anytime). Keeping perspective, terrorism doesn't happen often (John's point). Why hasn't this been done before? (Mary's point: people are generally good, good wins over evil.) Because language influences behavior and relationships, not being PC could fuel a situation where West is divided from Islam, which is Bin Laden's real goal, right? (Greg's point). Let's not create fear or dislike (Mary's point). Of course, enhancing security is a good idea (your point). But so is building sources/contacts and information on terrorist networks for longer-term security. And this isn't done with racism and a bat. Investigation into the terrorist networks is really what's needed here, for everyone's benefit of all religions and race. The main thing that needs to be investigated is money. The terrorists don't have much money (Win Smith's post), so they must be dependent upon Bin Laden or possibly other individuals in Saudi Arabia (John's post) for money. Providing them money (so they can eat, have a lifestyle, be productive so they don't take the wrong path in life) can be achieved by providing jobs after a safe leader is established (Deibutfeif's point). But how can jobs be created? By starting businesses. Who controls the capital investments for businesses? Angels, VCs, and industry veterans. So, the solution seems to be, incredibly, up to the VCs. The very same people they blew up last Tuesday. Yikes. But Jim's point ("why" did this happen) needs to be investigated. We need to understand why there is so much dislike. There is something wrong with our foreign policy, when a large group feels hopeless and kills and commits suicide. Providing jobs may be the venue to fix the hopelessness. (Of course, the leader has to be a safe leader, so that people aren't led to do something destructive. People aren't evil, but have the capacity to do evil when led to do so.) A CNN reporter interviewed a research scholar that has been collecting data on individuals that have done bad things in certain hot spots of the world. She said the common denominator was, "lack of hope." Regards, Amy J