I’ve been told “I’ll never fly this airline again!” I answer “Ok, ypu can go right across the hall to American. See that table by the door? It’s the same as this one. You’ll be screened at that one too.”

Trust me William, it was nothing personal when you were screened.

I don’t think racial profiling should be allowed. How about anyone with a turbin, or who yells out ALLAH! death to the U.S., or ask for seatbelt extenders, you know the whole drill.

I don’t care what race they are, get any suspicious radical a-holes the hell off of my plane.

right2bright on December 14, 2006 at 2:52 PM

Talk about racial profiling, or profiling in general!

In 2002 my wife and I and our three small children traveled from Philadelphia International Airport to San Jose airport for my sister-in-law’s wedding.

At the origin airport, rather than accepting our bags, we were sent down a long, cinderblock walled corridor to a room in which was a security person in uniform. We were informed that our luggage was to be inspected by hand.

All of our luggage was opened and touched. A gift for my father in law, gift wrapped by our five year old daughter, the flower girl, was ordered opened as well. After several minutes undergoing this ordeal we were sent on our way to go through the entire process, beginning with checking our luggage in.

Upon completion of our luggage check in we traveled to our destination gate, passing through the common metal detectors.

We then traveled to the main departure gate. There we joined the line of approximately 45 people. While waiting in line we noticed that in a roped off area to our right, a few feet from the ramp leading the plan itself, were two Oriental people, a young male approximately 25 to 30 years of age, and a young female, approximately 25 to 30 years of age.

Both were wearing shorts, T-shirts, sneakers, socks, and eye glasses. They were told to stand with their hands raised out to their sides, horizontal to the ground, in a T shape. They were ordered to remove their shoes and hand them to the screeners, told to unbuckle their belt buckles and open them, and open the top button or snap of their shorts so that the screeners could look. They were frisked and they were also scanned with a hand held scanner.

I was wondering what they did to be separated from the line and screened like that. They were quiet, made no scene, and did not appear to be Arab, South Asian, or Muslim. They appeared to be Chinese, or possibly Korean.

Nevertheless, we continued to wait for our turn at acquiring our boarding pass.

What do you think occurred next?

If you said “You were taken out of line and sent to the roped off area nearby and scanned, etc., before the other passengers and passersby, just as the previous two Oriental looking people were,” then, go to the front of the class! You earned your Sherlock Holmes-Columbo school of reasoning diploma!

My wife, who is Chinese, and I, of mixed race, and our two children (we were blessed with our third child since then) were separated from the boarding line and sent to the ropoed off “extra” screening area.

As our children watched, my wife and I went through a similar procedure as the previous two Oriental passengers.

For those who do not know this already, during the 9-11 Commission hearings we learned that profiling of more than two Arab-Muslim looking persons in a row is prohibited and has resulted in fines against numerous airlines AFTER 9-11, even though the airlines, the security personnel, etc., all felt there was credible concern which motivated the screening. For further information, read Michael Smirconish’ book “Flying Blind” in which that “rule” plus a host of other disturbing behaviorism of the US government, security services, congress, etc., in light of the attacks of 9-11, are covered. It isn’t pretty and makes one wonder “Have they lost their minds? We were attacked by a specific group of people who fit a specific profile. Why are they playing with our lives like this?”

So, here we are, in the airport, my wife and I and our two young children, our five year old daughter, and out two year old son, in plain view of all these strangers, fellow passengers, security personnel, airport personnel, airline personnel, etc., undergoing extra security screening as if we are terrorists, and we do not even fit the profile of any of the terrorists!

Furthermore, and this is the main point, the rule states that security may not screen more than two Muslim-Arab looking persons in a row, yet here there are not just two, but THREE Chinese looking people in a row, all scanned, frisked, taking articles of clothing off in public, etc., plus me, mixed race, formerly honorably discharged military veteran. Talk about profiling and rules and regulations.

Does anyone find it odd, and enough to make you pissed of, that security cannot stop more than two Arab-Muslim looking people in a row, but they can stop three Chinese looking people in a row, or three black people in a row, or three white people in a row, or three gray haired ladies in a row?

There is a flaw in that logic, but it occurs. There is danger built into that as well, and it is obviously all for show and for political correctness.

Why is it political correctness and show? Because, if even only two travelers are stopped out of every twenty while boarding the aircraft, that leaves no less than eighteen passengers boarding the aircraft without screening. Out of one hundred passengers, there are ninety boarding the aircraft without extra security screening, 90 potential terrorists. I don’t like those odds!

If they really want to be fair and not profile and not be politically correct, and to ensure safety, then they should screen everyone who boards the aircraft, including all the janitorial crew, the flight attendants, the pilots, the food and luggage crews, all the passengers, including all toddlers and infants, and every single piece of luggage.

If not, then they should stop this dog and pony show and screen each and every Arab-Muslim-South Asian (Pakistani-Indian) looking person who goes to board the aircraft, for the majority of all attacks were perpetrated by these people and the main core of their Jihadi masses are found in those nations and peoples who live in those areas.

White haired old ladies with walkers, Chinese woman with small children, Mixed race males with no criminal record and with a history of serving his country in the US military, black US Marines and Coast Guard members, and so on, are bearing the brunt of this bogus security dog and pony show. It is absurd.

Now these Imams are trying to manipulate this situation so that they are painted as poor, oppressed victims, while the airlines, the crew, the security personnel, and the passengers, are painted as intolerant, self centered, terror filled, paranoid, xenophobic, Islamophobic, bigoted, religious discriminating-persecuting, racist idiots.

It is time these issues were addressed once and for all, that Imams, or any other Muslims who behave in the manner in which they behaved, were shunned and not given the time of day when they attempt to turn their actions around and blame those they alarmed.

If the airport screening is done unfairly on others who don’t fit the profile of terrorists – gray haired old ladies with walkers, black US military personnel in uniform with their deployment orders, Orientals, teenagers, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people, etc., and this is a fact, as we have experienced our selves, and if terrorists are protected by a stupid rule which protects them from extra screening, as exists, then we definitely have our work cut out for us.

A bit more information. My father-in-law, who is Chinese, enroute to the same wedding, but traveling on a different day and flight that us, traveling with my mother-in-law, who is also Chinese, was stopped and set aside for extra screening four times in one direction, at four different airports. Talk about profiling!

So, let the Imams be shunned. Don’t give them a dime. Don’t even let the courts spend one minute involved in their idiotic case. They are a bunch of trouble makers and we should not encourage them!

William

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I don’t care what race they are, get any suspicious radical a-holes the hell off of my plane.

1. Aside from Islam’s favorite targets, the Jews, no.

2. No.

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Fight these efforts against our security and liberty, re-awaken your political animal, of whatever stripe, the future beckons.

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If there were such a scheme, I’d say it’s backfired. CAIR, the political wing of Al Qaeda, is either deliberately or inadvertantly helping bring about 9/11, Part II. They are hellbent to make it the law in America that the……

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I’m not so sure. The insanity of some people in congress and what they have done in the past….I would NOT put it past them, esp. Pelosi and Conyers.