July 08, 2005

CNN Expert suggests some sort of profiling

Just heard Peter Bergen, author of the piece in the New York Times about how London exports terrorists on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Live.

Bergen, who judging by his accent is British himself, raised the sobering point, as he did the Times op-ed, that the US offered simplified admission to EU passport holders without a consular interview or visa application. But it would be logistically impossible and politically untenable to demand those safeguards for every European visitor.

But that's not insurmountable, Bergen told Cooper. For example, we could do some sort of profiling...

And then they cut to the next story.

Posted by: seedubya at 06:33 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment
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1 Racist drivel from a racist punk. To hell with such fantasies.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 08, 2005 07:23 PM (ScqM8)

2 Downs Syndrome Meme, Sorry, it's not about race, it's about religion and nationality. Try again. Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.

Posted by: Carlos at July 08, 2005 09:15 PM (8e/V4)

3 Carlos, that Tim McVeigh was a terrorist

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 08, 2005 09:57 PM (ScqM8)

4 Yeah, he was probably a muslim too.

Posted by: Carlos at July 08, 2005 10:03 PM (8e/V4)

5 OMAGOD!!!! You really donÂ’t think that these terrorists and murderers, people who would blow the arms and legs off innocent people might be...........Quakers. I think any policy to target Quakers is .... Profiling...and that is just wrong,

Posted by: Boonie at July 09, 2005 12:06 AM (pO1tP)

6 Typical liberal reaction: when you can't offer up an intelligent argument, just call those you disagree with a racist or a Nazi. The old tried-and-true fallback of the left. When's the last time you called a conservative a Nazi? Recently, if you're like any of your brethren. I'm sure you'd be the first on Air Syria to announce your proud citizenship because we're really all just one of nature's brotherhood of innocent creatures, right?. No? It's real easy to sit and pass judgement from your La-Z-Boy in the comfort of your own home. Whether it fits into your idealistic world view or not, when you get right down to it, the most effective way to keep a terrorist off our planes and busses is to pat down every single person who looks like they spend too much time working on their tan. It's racist until it's your flight that gets hijacked or one of your relatives that gets blown-up. So, get out of here with your holier-than-thou BS. If not, tell us how you would do things differently.

Posted by: slug at July 09, 2005 01:28 AM (umFID)

7 What kills me is that airport terminal employees are supposed to perform "random" searches. So of course, random means 80 year old grandmas and nursing mothers as well. But, if even one person of middle eastern descent gets searched the screeching begins about profiling. It's just insane. If they're going to be accused of profiling, then they might as well profile. Since alsmost all terrorist attacks are committed by Arabic or Middle Eastern men between the ages of 17 and 47 then let's search all of those and everyone else randomly so they don't think they can just stuff a bomb in granny's carry on bag when she's not looking. Of course, this will never happen, but realistically, there's no other way that these searches can be effective enough.

Posted by: Oyster at July 09, 2005 02:47 PM (YudAC)

8 >>>"Since alsmost all terrorist attacks are committed by Arabic or Middle Eastern men between the ages of 17 and 47...' na aaah! What about Tim McVeigh!

Posted by: Carlos at July 09, 2005 03:40 PM (8e/V4)

9 Crap! Did I type "alsmost"? I meant "almost". Know what "almost" means? It means "almost". Damn, Carlos. You sound like Greg.

Posted by: Oyster at July 09, 2005 07:37 PM (YudAC)

10 Whenever I stare into their eyes, they search me.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 10, 2005 01:53 AM (ScqM8)

11 Went to the Tuesday night meeting. Tired as hell as I had to help load two pickup trucks full of fire wood. Sometimes being a racist is hard work. Took nine new applications from some very fit young men. Lots of work to do checking them out. A few of them had shaved heads. We prefer not to have the Arian Brotherhood types as they are to hard to control.Food was great. Beer was cold and everyone had fun throwing knifes at life size pictures of Osama, Jessie Jackson and Ted (the toad) Kennedy. Voted to have the tracker placed on the trail of Downing Street Memo. This kid can find anyone from the comfort of his Dorm room. Don't know if all these new faces is good or not. Just too many at one time. Told the new guys to go to Wal-Mart early in the morning when they stock the shelves because the God Damn Muslims have been buying up all the white sheets. Amazing huh! Muslims and the best of the best tying to buy the same thing. We will put a stop to it soon. Nailed a muslim with a tomato at 50ft in Winn Dixie. Splat! a beauty. Must be a new record. My new nick name ONE SHOT. From the movie I guess.

Posted by: greyrooster at July 13, 2005 12:13 AM (CBNGy)

12 Screw you Greyrooster, Kennedy is a good chap.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 13, 2005 06:51 AM (ScqM8)

13 American's killed innocent civilian Japanese population to justify that they have to win a losing war. They killed 150,000. People are still dying....THE WORLD HAS FORGOTTEN IT. Now we have bunch of idiots killing Americans and its allies because they want to win tooo....Welcome to the new world. Are they doing wrong ? Does America has moral authority to call them wrong ? TO HELL WITH YOU ALL....Carry on your attitudes, you dumb asses you moran........ WAKE UP ! WAKE UP !

Posted by: Bush at August 05, 2005 04:56 PM (iOhTm)

14 American's killed innocent civilian Japanese population to justify that they have to win a losing war. They killed 150,000. People are still dying....THE WORLD HAS FORGOTTEN IT. Now we have bunch of idiots killing Americans and its allies because they want to win tooo....Welcome to the new world. Are they doing wrong ? Does America has moral authority to call them wrong ? TO HELL WITH YOU ALL....Carry on your attitudes, you dumb asses you moran........ WAKE UP ! WAKE UP !

Posted by: Bush at August 05, 2005 04:59 PM (iOhTm)

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