Abdul: Hey, Fartqad, have you heard? The US won't search you if you are an elderly white woman?

Fartqad: You're kidding? For real?

Abdul: Serious man.

Fartqad: Alright !! Zaqeed is married to a white woman. His Mother-in-Law is senile. She doesn't know what's happening. We will arrange for her to fly on the same flight as us, but hide the weapons on her.

I think we should whatever is necessary to make planes safe but I think our cargo section of passenger planes is lacking security also. Maybe we need to move to no carry ons and one small suitcase to make it easier on security to inspect everything and everyone on board.

silverhair, you made your point and I agree, lets just strip search everyone regarless.

Racial Profiling may be politically incorrect but it's the intelligent thing to do. Why not use information we already have: terrorists tend to be young Muslim men from the Middle East or Southeast Asia. That is not a racist statement, but a fact. I know not all young Muslim men are terrorists. If racial profiling is implemented, we make it inifinitely harder for terrorists to carry out plots. Suddenly, they have to search for recruits that fit a different profile to be sucessful, like white Americans or Europeans. This makes plots infinitely more difficult to execute.

Racial profiling is wrong, & I don’t think it exists as much as some would have us believe. Just as many black cops pull over black men as white cops do. Not to mention that most are just routine. Yet, another case of finger pointing by liberals. Hey people say that after 9/11 racial profiling was worse than ever. Well I’m as white as you can get & I was pulled aside at the airport on three different business trips & searched. There were several different races preparing to fly on the same plane as me & I don’t think it can be considered profiling rather than routine.

About 10 years ago there was a robbery murder at a rest stop on I-10 near Pensacola Florida. Three people robbed a car, shot the driver and left the passenger for dead. The passenger described the robbers as three young black males. So, the police set out a search for three young black males. The local liberal groups took exception to this as "racial profiling". How stupid is that???????

Maybe a failure to realistically identify who is trying to kill us?

It's like Police DWI checkpoints. They might stop every 5th or 10th vehicle depending on traffic. Some drunks will get through but otherwise there would be gridlock.

Im sure this scares all the true Americans last week but me a young arab man with a very very islamic name (Khaled).......has boarded over 20 flights since 9/11 and I have never.....ever been double checked or pulled aside for extra security

Does that make you scared? Do you think they should give me a full body cavity search?

Routine & human instinct, I would hope would prevail. If any person from any race looks & acts guilty, then they probably are. One should not take is personally if they are pulled aside if they have nothing to hide.