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To: kumar who wrote (56832)11/12/2002 8:55:43 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Hope you don't feel harassed. The problem is that we can all agree when security is not careful enough, and when security is too careful, but there is a grey area that nobody will ever be able to agree on.

Targeting little old nuns seems foolish, but if little old nuns are declared off limits, then terrorists will try to sneak bombs in via little old nuns, IMO.

Anyway, nobody targets me. I look exactly like what I am, a middle-aged middle-class white working mother. I am invisible.



To: kumar who wrote (56832)11/12/2002 8:59:59 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
: How do u tell some one is of ME origin

Probabilities, Kumar. We can't detain and search everyone, Kumar. Let start with the most obvious suspects. If you have a ME name and appearance, you are going to get a lot more searches than if you are a blond 6 footer named Lars.

I am not at fault for the BG of the hi-jackers. The people we are after have a higher probability of having that profile. That is just reality.



To: kumar who wrote (56832)11/13/2002 7:51:16 AM
From: zonder  Respond to of 281500
 
Re The question then is : How do u tell some one is of ME origin ?

Good question. Look at my white skin and green eyes and you would never guess.

Frankly, the only few times passport controllers and law enforcement people ever singled me out was to hit on me :))