From: "Mike Gammon" <jmgammon@sympatico.ca> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:03 PM > I think that the problem is that we SHOULD be looking at profiling. Not > racial profiling, but rather, behaviour profiling. > > For example, if your only profiling basis was men paying for a one-way > ticket in cash, and with no luggage, for a transcon flight, the Sept. 11 > tragedy could have been stopped. Whether caucasian or middle-eastern, that > behaviour should have been a tip-off. After all, if we limit ourselves to > racial minorities, we could let an airline-equivalent of Timothy McVeigh > slip through the cracks. I don't believe everything I hear, but a person of some authority recently stated that the hijackers bought round-trip tickets on credit cards. I am sympathetic to Baja's worries about targeting Middle Easterners, but I am also sympathetic to the woman who had to drink her breast milk. It is absurd to examine everyone, but equally absurd to examine no one. We have a problem. I don't think we have found good answers to it. Gerry http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html