Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Profiling may be introduced
THE Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk.

The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background. Read it all here: Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown by Ben Webster

Profiling plan angers UK Muslims
Mark Alexander

4 comments:

Always On Watch said...

Yee-haw! At long last!

Mark said...

Always:

Yes indeed. At long last. Are we beginning to see the heat turned on Muslims? I do hope so.

Mark said...

Emily:

Welcome back! Be assured: You've been missed! :-)

You certainly seem to have been rather sharply treated there in Plymouth. Ludicrous, isn't it, for security guards to waste their time on people who are so obviously no risk at all?

I wonder if the government will really have the guts to carry out this profilng? It will be interesting to observe what happens in the near future.

Mark said...

JudahQ:

You seem to have been singled out for especially humiliating treatment. It's a wonder to me that you could indeed contain your anger. How insenstive of the security guards!

It just goes to show how stupid this whole system is; and all in the name of not offending Muslims, the very perpetrators of these heinous acts.