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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (14478)	7/23/2004 11:20:44 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

The whole system is absurd without profiling IMO. TSA is yet another incompetent government beauracracy. I have a friend who is an Assistant US Attorney. He prosecuted a guy (forget what the charge was, but it was a federal felony), and the dude shows up for his initial appearance in his TSA uniform! Apparently he thought the judge would cut him some slack because they had a common employer. My friend called the TSA director in his city to alert him that one of his employees had been charged criminally (the guy was ultimately convicted). TSA didn't appear terribly concerned.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (14478)	7/23/2004 12:00:11 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

yeah you know how threatening little old ladies from rural towns are explosives in their canes firearms in their corrective shoes devices hidden under their hat and hairnets

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (14478)	7/23/2004 2:24:22 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 14610

I think that profiling is important, but one of the things that should be obvious from our own little SI universe, there are many anti-american americans who could conceivably be swung over to be sympathetic to the fundamentalist muslim views. How many times have we seen middle aged white american men and women say that 9/11 was our own fault? If I was a ME terrorist, I would be probing for sympathetic people who would not fit the profile and I would send them through airport security to carry the easily assembled bomb parts. In other words, I don't think that the policy of checking out everyone, regardless of profile, is a bad thing. Of course, I support profiling 100%.