No. you’re consenting. If the searches are equally consensual, no problem.

New Yorker Worker #115, I know excactly what you mean.

Don’t know why you used the word harass. It’s called searching the backpacks. We could do it as civilly and calmly and quickly as possible. I submit to searches of my backpack when I go to the state fair and Sunsplash here in CA. I never once said to someone. I’m being harassed.

Part of the reason is that Britain is still a class-based society. They have hierarchical structures that are virtually impregnable, depending on your race, family history, economic status, place of birth, occupation, and so forth. We even have a bit of that here in America, but we have far more mobility up (and down) the social ladder.

So anyway, in the overall scheme of things, a “wog” is just about the very worst thing you can be in England. Whether you’re Indian, Pakistani, or black, you’ll find numerous barriers erected against your full participation in society. Unless you’re incredibly wealthy, second-class citizen is about the best you can achieve. For good or ill, that’s just how it is.

Thus even though those Brits were raised as members of their society, they never really identified with it, and that’s why they were vulnerable to Islamic jihadism. In a sense, they were getting even at a society that rejected them.

Something to keep in mind during these discussions about profiling, internment, and deportation of the innocent. Paradoxically, many of our vulnerabilities are also sources of our greatest strength. Indeed, our tolerance of those who differ from us, our equality of opportunity, and our projected confidence and pride in ourselves makes it tougher for terrorists to find legions of ready recruits on our shores.

Ahhh, Freedom.

Profiling is an advantage to terrorists, because it is predictable. It quickly becomes obvious who is being targeted for searches, and then it is simple for the real terrorists to make themselves look different. And since most manpower is being tied up in profile-based searching, the real terrorists are less likely to be caught.

Random searches are the biggest problem for terrorists, because there is no reliable way to avoid them. If even 80-year old grandmothers are being searched, what can you do to make your agents safe? Moreover, a high frequency of random searches will create a high level of “noise” that can conceal a lower level of “targeted” searches directed at individuals who are suspected of terrorist involvement. Were you searched because they are on to you? Or was it just another random search?

Supposedly he said “the terrorist are highjacking a great religion” or something of that nature …(I have to find a transcript)…

As Islamofascists are making a sport of bombing London, you’re the one who needs the luck. – Admin

Dennis has talk shows and a website. Very prolific writer, he is an excellent one to follow. Hat’s off Bak, good suggestions (Medved and Prager).

Renee; old, new or Va doesn’t matter to me. I still love reading your posts.