Recently, Doug Carter posted:
Jose wrote:
It is the nature of an open society that it is vulnerable. It
ceases to be an open society long before it ceases to be vulnerable.
Profiling is just one way this happens.

I don't, for the most part disagree, but, consider this: Would you
suggest that after two white males rob a bank that we should be
looking for "two humans?" The reaction to so called "profiling" is,
for the most part, an emotional derivative of the civil rights
movement in this country rather than a fundamental issue.

The reaction to "so called 'profiling'..." is because of the way it is
implemented. Where its application has violated civil rights, it is an
issue, though not an emotional one. Does anyone recall how
"middle-eastern" people were suspected of the Oklahoma City Federal Bldg.
bombing? It's *not* OK to trample peoples' civil rights on the basis of
such erroneous and prejudicial notions.

Neil