Last I remember, a member of this list left because of comments like this and ones much milder, and that was a year or so ago. I did not know that this list was one that allowed deliberate bigotry. Now I am all for freedom of speech and equal protection, but that means to all people, including those that some don't like. Also, given that the list is private property, that does not qualify. If someone sprays grafiti on provate property, it is not protected under the First Amendment. Also, if anyone thinks that the only people who bomb, hijack, etc. are moslem, then they must be blind to IRA, ULF, Jewish Defense League, the people who murdered Ghandi and Timothy McVeigh. Unfortunately there are people all over the world, from all backgrounds who seem hell bent on killing over stupidity. Singling one group out will not change that In a message dated 7/16/2004 3:15:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: >I believe they were doing a dry run of how to construct a bomb while in flight. >To those of the Muslim faith: You probably don't want to read what I'm about to write. I make NO apology for what I'm going to say. >The only way we are going to be safe in the skies is to have racial profiling. There is a group of people out there who want to wipe out western civlization. Guess what? These people are Muslims, not Christians, not Jews, not Hindus, etc. >To allow this group of 14 people to board the aircraft without additional screening is criminal. And who do we have to thank for this? An idiot named Norman Mineta. He has no business being in charge of the Department of Transportation. President Bush was wrong in keeping him as the Secreatary of Transportation. >If our Muslim "friends" on this list read the above and are upset or hurt, then that's just too damn bad. We are at war. We know who the enemy is. It is time the government got some common sense. To not profile someone because he may be offended is the most stupid thing around. >David R > >-------------- Original message -------------- > >> From: >> >> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:43 AM >> >> >> > david ross thought you might be interested in this story from >> > FrontPageMag.com: >> > >> > Very interesting article - and another reason why PROFILING IS NEEDED! >> > >> > http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14249 >> >> It is kind of interesting. I haven't carried anything onto an airplane in >> the US since 9/11 that wasn't examined. I was really interested in what the >> Syrian musicians did on the plane that was nasty, but I never heard. Is >> the writer going to follow up with that information? What do you think >> was in the Macdonald's bag? >> >> Gerry >> http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ >> http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html >> http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley >> http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html >