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What price political correctness?

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Dr Jack
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08-10-2006 8:26 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by cavediver
08-10-2006 6:22 AM

The policy is to check EVERYONE at Heathrow and other airports this morning on the back of this huge terror alert. Is this necessary?
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Who, specifically, do you think they should limit their checks to? Brown skin and beards, perhaps? Are you aware that Al Queda specifically targets recently converted white muslims? That it teaches techniques for not standing out by your appearance?
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08-10-2006 8:44 AM 		Reply to: Message 12 by cavediver
08-10-2006 8:37 AM

The white terrorist is no more or less stoppable than the Arab terrorist unless you decide to hamstring yourself by adopting racial profiling (while alienating the vast majority of entirely peaceful, law-abiding Arabs as a free bonus).
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08-10-2006 10:51 AM 		Reply to: Message 15 by jar
08-10-2006 10:25 AM

What do you feel is the correct response to a specific threat identified which revolved around using drinks containers to hide explosive (specifically liquid explosives, it seems)?
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08-10-2006 3:07 PM 		Reply to: Message 39 by crashfrog
08-10-2006 2:17 PM

Is there honestly any magazine in print right now that it takes you 3 hours to read?
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The Economist's got to come to close.
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08-11-2006 3:05 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by cavediver
08-10-2006 6:22 AM

CaveDiver, now that at least one of the suspects has been revealed to be white - do you still think we should be using profiling?
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