Airport insanity

[James A. Donald]

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James A. Donald:
> > > > If you really look like the shoe bomber, then you 
> > > > should have to drive, or use public transport.

Thomas Shaddack
> Ever tried to drive to Europe? Or to Hawaii?

Hard biscuit

> Why airplanes don't count as a form of public transport?

They do.

> This is a measure good for pissing off (which is often the 
> first step to radicalizing) the quite secularized majority of 
> American Arabs.

The proposition that we need to walk delicately for fear of 
disturbing the tender sensibilities of arabs seems laughable. 
Are the arabs walking delicately to avoid offending our 
sensibilities?

> You also seem to forget there is another potential factor - 
> not only the visible one (ethnicity), but also one that isn't 
> obvious to visual evaluation - religion. There is a 
> significant black minority that inclines to Islam, some of 
> them potentially radical. Do you want to suggest banning 
> blacks from flying too?

Seen any black suicide bombers?   Black Muslim radicalism tends 
to express itself by mugging Jews and stealing television sets.
Strapping dynamite to one's chest just does not seem to be a
black thing. 

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