"No Time For Walking On Glass"

Here is a news article I just found. I first heard about it the other day on the Opie and Anthony show.

Officials call for racial profiling in NYC subway searches
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Arabs should be targeted for searches on city subways, two elected officials said, contending that the police department has been wasting time with random checks in its effort to prevent terrorism in the transit system.

The city began examining passengers' bags on subways and buses after the second bomb attack in London two weeks ago. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have said several times that officers will not racially profile.

But over the weekend, state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said police should be focusing on those who fit the "terrorist profile."

"They all look a certain way," said Hikind, a Democrat from Brooklyn. "It's all very nice to be politically correct here, but we're talking about terrorism."

And on Tuesday, City Councilman James Oddo, a Republican from Staten Island, said that his emotions relating to the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack by Middle Eastern men in hijacked airplanes caused him to publicly declare his support for Hikind's statements.

"The reality is that there is a group of people who want to kill us and destroy our way of life," he said. "Young Arab fundamentalists are the individuals undertaking these acts of terror, and we should keep those facts prominently in our minds and eyes as we attempt to secure our populace."

Oddo commended Hikind for "rushing headlong against the strong undertow of political correctness."

Hikind said he planned to introduce legislation allowing police to racially profile, and Oddo said he intended to introduce a resolution in the City Council supporting the measure.

But the director of the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Wissam Nasr, said their push for racial profiling is offensive and ignorant because "terror comes in all shapes and sizes, and certainly there's no legislation or system that's going to identify terrorists on the spot."

In response to Hikind's suggestion, the New York Police Department said in a statement that racial profiling is "illegal, of doubtful effectiveness and against department policy."

The Republican mayor reiterated Tuesday that it is against the law and doesn't work.

"I'm against it for fairness reasons, and we're not going to do it," he said.

The New York Civil Liberties Union opposes the searches, saying they violate the Fourth Amendment. The mayor said he hoped the NYCLU would recognize that the city has struck the right balance between security and protecting constitutional rights.

Originally published on August 2, 2005

Got to say, I agree. We should stop checking old white women that are wearing fanny packs. Not to be rude, or sound republican, but we do know who is doing this. I'm sick and tired of listening to the bleeding hearts going on about not being prejudice. Okay. Well, lets search the old white lady fany pack in tow, and then let mubar mussad ali g farroq, complete with clean shaved beard muttering lines from the quaran, lets let him walk by with his bowling ball candle.

Sorry if this line of thinking pisses you off, but it seems to be a SAFER way to think. I mean, we dont want to defend the arab gents that are going to kill themselves off to kill us now, do we?

~Oz

Addendum: And I love how America never took an interest in London, England, or Ireland, or any of our brethren across the pond when it was the IRA bombing them. Oh thats right. The IRA arent terrorist because they dont have deep political ties/ money investments in American interests.

~~OZ