On 2005-08-16, Wizard of Draws wrote:
Now, now. We wouldn't want to profile and hurt the young, Islamic male
feelings.

Although the thing with babies is obviously stupidity at work, you have
to be careful with profiling. Already some profiling is used - if you
buy a one way ticket last minute by credit card on the Internet it seems
to flag you for a check. Guess what - the terrorists will just buy round
trip tickets by check at a travel agent. If you start profiling young
males with brown skin, you wind up getting taken by surprise by the next
Timothy McVeigh who happens to be brainwashed into being a suicide
bomber.

The push for ID cards and the like is also a complete waste of taxpayers
money too. Take for example the London tube bombers. They all had valid
ID and it was trivial for the Police to find out who they were. It
didn't exactly take the Police long to find out who the incompetent
suicide bombers were and round them up either.

The only solution is good intelligence. A list of names doesn't help
since even a ten year old knows that a person's name is hardly unique.

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