Maybe we should take a lesson from our Jewish Allies and concentrate on this group of people instead of strip searching my daughters? Call me "Crazy", "profiling", as a former Law Enforcement Professional, I can tell you it is not politically correct but it works! Nothing is perfect, but lets at least start with something that works and has been working in the most targeted airports in the world - In Israel.
The following are excerpts from "Sowell: Airport 'Security'?" By Thomas Sowell November 23, 2010.
No country has better airport security than Israel-- and no country needs it more, since Israel is the most hated target of Islamic extremist terrorists. Yet, somehow, Israeli airport security people don't have to strip passengers naked electronically or have strangers feeling their private parts.
Does anyone seriously believe that we have better airport security than Israel? Is our security record better than theirs?
What other administration has had an Attorney General call the American People "cowards"? And refuse to call terrorists Islamic? What other administration has had a Secretary of Homeland Security warn law enforcement officials across the country of security threats from people who are anti-abortion, for federalism or are returning military veterans?
If anything good comes out of the airport "security" outrages, it may be in opening the eyes of more people to the utter contempt that this administration has for the American people.
What do the Israeli airport security people do that American airport security do not do? They profile. They question some individuals for more than half an hour, open up all their luggage and spread the contents on the counter-- and they let others go through with scarcely a word. And it works.
Meanwhile, this administration is so hung up on political correctness that they have turned "profiling" into a bugaboo. They would rather have electronic scanners look under the clothes of nuns than to detain a Jihadist imam for some questioning.
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I found that Profiling is what help me everyday of my career. Looking at some one and getting that feeling that something is a foot is necessary to do police work. We called it instinct, indicators just to fool around with semantics. Basically it was looking at someone with a critical eye and passed experience and making a judgment call if they are going to be trouble or not. We didn't have the pleasure of getting to talk to everyone before they beat feet. Ken C
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