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Compensation for Indignity

Racial profiling is wrong, because it's an indignity that 99.999% of people must suffer because of the acts of the .0001%. Conservatives defend racial profiling for not totally retarded reasons: After the 9/11 attacks, when 19 Muslim terrorists -- 15 from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates and one each from Egypt and Lebanon, 14 with "al" in their names -- took over commercial aircraft with box-cutters, the government banned sharp objects from planes. Only about a third of all Americans flew even once in the last year, and only 7 percent took more than four round trips. The majority of airline passengers are middle-aged, middle-class, white businessmen with about a million frequent-flier miles. I'd wager that more than 90 percent of domestic air travelers were born in the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).