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Re: profiling and my arabic friends
> I think a key difference is how the profiling is
> used.
but this doesn't seem like more than speculation in
terms of substantiating the motivation behind a
practice. also, i don't draw the same conclusions
with respect to the investigations concerning 9/11.
> from suspicion. Compare this with the recent
> anti-arab profiling, where
> there is no crime necessarily committed. It it
> looking for a person to
> attack, instead of looking for people to relieve of
> suspicion.
first, i'd say there is plenty of evidence to support
that there was indeed a crime committed. cold-blooded
murder is usually perceived that way. attempts at it
too. second, i don't think we can say the
arab-profiling is that different from any other in
country. if it is, i'd say it's more intense b/c of
the gravity and wide-spread threat of this situation.
the scale is much larger than one murderer who
murdered one person.
always been a civil liberty gal too, but i think that
extends to victims as much as to the regular brand of
civilian. social contract hangs in a balance of
protecting the rights of people in a variety of ways.
we give up some rights to have others.
some people don't believe in acting quickly or more
intensely, but i think of a person with gangreen or
something. that person cannot want to cut away some
of their own flesh, to injure any part of him or
herself. that person may not want to suspend their
ability to walk and get around for any amount of time.
but for the greater good, perhaps (s)he will.
take care,
j. marie
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