Thursday, December 29, 2005

To the ACLU -- Make Up Your Mind!

The ACLU cannot make up their mind! They have campaigned against "racial profile" in favor for "behavioral profile" over and over and over.... Now they are proving they don't want "behavioral profiling" either -- please, MAKE UP YOUR MIND. (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Letter to the House Urging Members to Co-Sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004
Law enforcement based on general characteristics such as race, religion and national origin, rather than on the observation of an individual's behavior, is not only an inefficient technique;

Safe and Free // Post - 9/11 Resources: Racial Profiling, Discrimination and Immigrants’ Rights
Racial profiling is as flawed an approach to the war on terrorism as it was to the war on drugs. The ACLU is not alone in this belief: shortly after September 11, leading intelligence experts cautioned against using this counterproductive tool. In Assessing Behaviors, a memorandum first reported in the Boston Globe, the specialists advised law enforcement to focus on behavior, not race, in efforts to foil terrorist plots.

Behavior detection implemented at Maine airports - Boston.com
The federal Transportation Security Administration implemented its pilot program for behavior detection -- the practice of analyzing people's actions to determine if they have something to hide -- at Boston's Logan International Airport in 2002.
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The TSA is facing opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts last year claiming behavior detection can be easily abused because TSA officers have to guess who is suspicious, leading to racial profiling.

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