At 09:07 AM 8/13/2002 -0400, Gerard M Foley wrote: >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. Similarly, it is absurd that anyone should be examined all the time, but it is also dangerous and absurd if there is some predictable subset of the population that never gets examined. The woman who had to drink her breast milk isn't relevant to this topic, unless you'd say that some women should have to drink their breast milk, but not others. Same for the woman with the GI Joe doll and the ever so dangerous 2" gun. That's not about racial profiling; that's about security screeners being horrified at the thought of letting anything through that they might later be blamed for. But all of us should be at some "risk" of being subjected to extra scrutiny, or else we become the preferred dupes and mules of those we really fear (if they exist). Nick