I can't IMAGINE why young males of Muslim descent would ever be anti-American - we've been performing racial profiling on them forever.
You and I are just lucky we don't look ethnic - my sister is olive-skinned with almond-shaped eyes and gets "randomly" searched every damn time she takes a trip. She and her husband plan their trips around racial profiling. I don't think my sister or BiL have even had a speeding ticket between them.
I'll never show my "papers" to a police officer unless I know that I've committed a crime, threat of arrest or no. But they could use this in myriad evil ways to keep people out of an area or take the names of people who are in an area for a demonstration, protest, festival, collecting signatures for a ballot initiative, etc., then track their movements in other ways (or show up to their house later for intimidation tactics).
As the saying goes, I love my country but I'm pretty damn scared of my government.
no subject
I can't IMAGINE why young males of Muslim descent would ever be anti-American - we've been performing racial profiling on them forever.
You and I are just lucky we don't look ethnic - my sister is olive-skinned with almond-shaped eyes and gets "randomly" searched every damn time she takes a trip. She and her husband plan their trips around racial profiling. I don't think my sister or BiL have even had a speeding ticket between them.
I'll never show my "papers" to a police officer unless I know that I've committed a crime, threat of arrest or no. But they could use this in myriad evil ways to keep people out of an area or take the names of people who are in an area for a demonstration, protest, festival, collecting signatures for a ballot initiative, etc., then track their movements in other ways (or show up to their house later for intimidation tactics).
As the saying goes, I love my country but I'm pretty damn scared of my government.