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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (53067)	9/25/2001 9:19:31 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

We have never needed the goodwill and support of the over 99% of all muslims who are great people than now. Muslim bashing only hurts our country. Muslim states are permitting us to stage, practice, overfly etc. right now. Even Iran has helped by closing their Afghan border.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (53067)	9/25/2001 10:21:56 AM
From: w0z	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

We have a brain so that we can consider our actions and its ramifications, not so that we can justify racism and hysteria. My brain tells me that there is a higher probability that a terrorist will have certain physical characteristics based on previous history. These are cold facts...not racism or hysteria. I am very thankful that these same characteristics can be used to identify suspicious people inquiring about crop-dusting, transporting hazardous materials, etc. Call it racism if you like...I prefer to call it intuition. The cold facts are that higher percentages of certain folks commit higher percentages of certain crimes...to ignore that is foolhardy in my opinion. This is not an excuse for vigilantes but we should not ignore the common sense God gave us to alert appropriate authorities of suspicious people for thorough and unbiased investigation. albany.edu

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (53067)	9/25/2001 12:56:00 PM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

You posted This is the kind of mentality that "understands" why blacks should be viewed with suspicion in rich settings, because there were black criminals who robbed a 7-11. Actually, I was careful and said drugs were related to the robberies, not by colour. And I would have even said, 25 - 35 white men on meth as a most likely to commit a 7-11 hold-up in south east US. He would then drive off in an old truck with a gun under the seat. He is single and maybe living with other meth addict. Just as a midwest car chase has a 18 -26 year old drunk white boy in his new fast cars showing off to friends. You may recall, I eleven years US Military "Navy". During those years we pulled into many new countries. Prior to arrival, we would all learn what the stereotypical "bad guys" for that country and maybe city. And this was good advice to hear. Failure to size up the situation fast enough got many other sailors into hot water. After walking into any new environment, I would immediately try to determine who, good and who was bad and what opportunities were present. Then put yourself in a safe place outside of the opportunity window. Sometimes this would be only use certain cabs from specific companies as others would rip off the sailor. An example is cab drives would pick up a sailor and drop him off at the bad guys back door. Then the sailor would have been fleeced and beaten up I just thought of the time, 15 years ago my wife was parking her car in the Band of America packing lot on Argues "near AMAT B81". While walking towards the bank, see saw two big guys running towards the bank pulling down ski mask. My wife stopped going in and returned to the car. Yes a robber was in progress. These two men could have been in a hurry to go to Reno and just needed an ATM, but no, my wife stereotyped those two men by their actions and appearance, correctly so. Just a thought. Stan