"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"tscottme" wrote in message
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The Sept 11 hijackers didn't break any law until they started slicing
passengers with box cutters, spraying mace, and rushing the cockpit.

You mean other than bringing box cutters and mace onto an airplane, right?

Oh yeah, and entering the US illegally (for several of them, anyway).
Right?

Other than THOSE illegal acts, you mean. Right?

In any case, it's clear that you miss the point. We will never be
perfectly
safe. Why should our lives suck in the meantime? We all die eventually
anyway. I'd rather not get killed by a terrorist, but if I'm basically
living my life in fear and suspicion, that's not much of a life at all.
I'd
rather live a free life and enjoy myself, and accept the risk that I might
die earlier than I thought I would.

I'm not against security in general, but when we start suspecting people
just because they look different (without an overt illegal act), we lose
what makes us American.

Do you really think anyone on the airplane would've noticed how those men
behaved, if they had been white? It wasn't their behavior that drew
suspicion...it was their race. And that's racist.

Their race drew attention, their behavior drew suspicion.