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| Airlines Can Be Fined for Questioning More Than Two Arab Passengers Before a Flight |
| 2004-04-17 |
| Statement to a reporter by John Lehman, member of the 9/11 Commission: We had testimony a couple of months ago from the past president of United, and current president of American Airlines that kind of shocked us all. They said under oath that indeed the Department of Transportation continued to fine any airline that was caught having more than two people of the same ethnic persuasion in a secondary line for line for questioning, including and especially, two Arabs. ... because of this political correctness that became so entrenched in the 1990s, and continues in current administration. No one approves of racial profiling, that is not the issue. The fact is that Norwegian women are not, and 85-year-old women with aluminum walkers are not, the source of the terrorist threat. The fact is that our enemy is the violent Islamic extremism and the overwhelming number of people that one need to worry about are young Arab males, and to ask them a couple of extra questions seems to me to be common sense, yet if an airline does that in numbers that are more than proportionate to their number in particular line, then they get fined and that is why you see so many blue haired old ladies and people that are clearly not of Middle Eastern extraction being hauled out in such numbers because otherwise they get fined. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #6 Anyone have any idea if Gorelick had a connection to the "Visa Express" program? Just asking -- I know she worked for Justice, and "Terrorist Express" was a State project, but you never know where they got their justification. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-17 8:03:22 PM |
| #5 Think Gorelick initialed this Clintonian policy, too? |
| Posted by: Anonymous4279 2004-04-17 6:56:47 PM |
| #4 Please permit me to take this sort of ill-founded thinking to its logical conclusion. After all, this is the best way to examine the full ramifications of any policy. All the terrorists need to do is load a flight with several Arab passengers, the majority of whom are far back in line. Once at least two of the forward placed conspirators have been searched, the others are free to board unmolested. If I am able to realize this, you can bet the terrorists have as well. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-17 5:28:35 PM |
| #3 Time for the good old clue bat. BIG CLUE: It isn't Icelandic or Chilean fanatics that are flying planes into buildings. Neither is it Scandinavian grandmothers or Florida retirees. THE OVERWHELMING PERCENTAGE OF TERRORISTS ARE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. I KNOW THAT THIS IS A SHOCKING REVELATION TO YOU ALL. This sort of rubbish is exactly what will assist in precipitating another 9-11. Those who continue to implement such absurd policy will have the next atrocity's blood on their hands. When people of Middle Eastern descent stop collapsing skyscrapers, blowing up night clubs and trains or each other, only then will it be time to revise our profiles. Until that time, every single Arab male can receive extensive cavity searches for all I care. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-17 5:06:46 PM |
| #2 We still aren't serious about the WOT domesticly. Unfortunately, it's going to take another WTC or two to sweat all the idiocy out of the system. |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-04-17 3:32:48 PM |
| #1 If sensitivity is more important than safety, why even screen in the first place? Do the screeners have to record stats on who they screen? I'd screen every Arabic male and mark them alternately "white", "black", "Pacific islander", etc. Damn this P.C. quota B.S.! |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-04-17 2:55:53 PM |