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Collecting of Details on Travelers Documented

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Posted by gorb 2007-09-24 05:17|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 gorb,
"Let's go screw with someone at random as long as they have an Arabic name."

I think that sounds like a reasonable starting point.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-24 08:49|| 2007-09-24 08:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Even if we restricted the screwing around with guys named Mohamed we could probably deal with 90% of the problem. Anybody related to somebody named Mohamed takes that up to exactly 100%.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-24 09:29|| 2007-09-24 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 This also has another side these people have no clue about. This kind of information also allows the DHS to determine that some people and some behaviors are in and by themselves not a threat. When you have this kind of information, it can be used both to establish a profile of those that the nation may have a problem with, and also to establish that some people (little old grannies with knitting needles and scissors in a knitting bag) aren't a threat. Call it reverse profiling, if you will.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-09-24 14:55|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-09-24 14:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Sort of like chipping away everything that doesn't look like a threat. I wonder how lawyers are going to deal with that.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-24 15:37|| 2007-09-24 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Those records included a description of a book on marijuana that one of them carried and small flashlights bearing the symbol of a marijuana leaf.

Do the records show "suspected smuggler" or just "incredibly stupid"?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-24 16:16|| 2007-09-24 16:16|| Front Page Top

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