350HP930,
Finally somebody who actually recognizes where I fall on the "political spectrum" (actually, I'm just slightly right of reactionary). I don't know of anybody in the DOT or TSA who fits that bill but we can always hope, someday..........
I don't want to "harrass" anybody, but even the supreme court in 1975 found in US v. Brignoni-Ponce that a "mexican appearance" of a cars' occupant could be considered in the stopping of a car near the Mexican border when looking for illegal aliens. The court noted "the government has estimated that 85% of all illegal aliens in the country are from Mexico", therefore the ethnic appearance of a person should not be ignored. The only difference here is that 100% of the terrorist acts commited on US airlines have been committed by Muslims, this isn't a "profile", it's a "description of the suspect".
Do you have any evidence at all of ANY Muslim extemist ever doing anything to "pass as non-arab"? Quite to the contrary, historically they have changed to become LESS like their western enemies (us).
-Jose Padilla officially changed his name to Ibrahim
-John Walker Lindh changed his name to Suleyman Al-Lindh in high school and then to Abdul Hameed while with the Taliban.
-Richard Reid was ID'd by the French as Tariq Raja and answered to Abdel Rahim.
-The elder of the DC snipers changed his name to John Muhammed who registered the car used in the sniper attacks, on 9/11/02 and wrote the time as "8:52am", you guessed it, the time the first plane hit the WTC.
-None of the 9/11 hi-jackers bought their tickets under western names.
Not exactly trying to "blend in" were they? But you wouldn't want to use any of that as an indication that somebody might want to check them out. I'll bet the cop that stopped John Muhammed in MD a few days before they were arrested wished he had looked at him a little more closely (yeah, because of his name).
You mentioned in another thread about how Bush should be held acountable for the FBI report about the flight school that was "stifled". But isn't that EXACTLY what you think should have been done? Just because we have a group of Muslims at flight school doesn't mean anything, right? Do you think the FBI would want the ACLU raining down on their head for "racially harrassing" a group of Muslims that hadn't done anything? You have to pick a side on this one. Either bury your head in the sand and wait for the next attack or actively look for the next potential threat.
BTW I'm not talking about doing anything like setting up "internment camps" like the Democrats did to thousands of innocent Japanese in this country.
As an interesting note, a nuclear reactor is the ONLY structure designed to withstand the impact of a B757. But I do think that you are correct, the next attack (or attempt) will be something other than an airplane.
Pete