No Fly List : yay or nay?

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http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58051,00.html

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mmmmmmm, sterotyping

[yeat182]

flying isn't a right it is a privalege, if they need to do something like this to protect the passengers in their airplanes, i think a private company should be allowed to do it. that is not to say that they should have free reign to do whatever they want, but as long as there are safeguards for privacy and mistakes are fixed and taken care of, i don't really see a problem with it. if you don't like it you don't have to fly, take a car, train, boat, bus etc...

also, sterotyping isn't automatically a bad thing....

[amishman]

Originally posted by yeat182
flying isn't a right it is a privalege, if they need to do something like this to protect the passengers in their airplanes, i think a private company should be allowed to do it. that is not to say that they should have free reign to do whatever they want, but as long as there are safeguards for privacy and mistakes are fixed and taken care of, i don't really see a problem with it. if you don't like it you don't have to fly, take a car, train, boat, bus etc...

also, sterotyping isn't automatically a bad thing....

I agree, Dennis Miller summed it up pretty well I believe,

"Now this profiling thing. You know, when 15 out of 19 people are from one country, and you happen to notice that, that's not profiling. That's minimally observant. Okay? If I'm ever on an airplane and a guy who looks like the shoe bomber gets on and sits down next to me, I'm gonna call the stew over and say, "Excuse me honey, but if this f**ker isn't the harmonica player for the J. Geils Band, I want him off the plane right now! Okay? You know, this had better be Jeff Goldblum on a 3 day meth bender, 'cause I don't trust anybody in Converse black hightops who isn't playing small forward for the '64 Celtics!""