Article: TSA demands racial profiling stop

The link: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/house_homeland_security_commit.html

" "TSA should halt the SPOT program immediately until safeguards are put into place to address racial and ethnic profiling concerns," Thompson said in a statement. "I will write TSA and request to see this internal report." " (SPOT stands for 'Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques')

But there's a problem with this: And for that we need to go here: http://michellemalkin.com/2011/04/10/tsa-follies-see-spot-fail/

Yes, the link is to Michelle Malkin's site.

But you need to read the article.

" Air traffic controllers have been catching a lot of grief for sleeping on the job lately. But do you know what Transportation Security Administration officials have been doing — or rather, not doing — lately? A federal watchdog revealed this week that TSA’s counterterrorism specialists failed to detect 16 separate jihad operatives who moved through target airports “on at least 23 different occasions.” The name of the TSA monitoring program paying for all this flying-blind failure, I kid you not: (Link is Ms. Malkin's and is left intact.)

" SPOT.

" Under the “Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques” plan, TSA’s designated behavior detection officers are supposed to closely watch travelers who pose potential security risks and who exhibit any number of appearances or activities “indicative of stress, fear, or deception.” But long-entrenched, bipartisan American political correctness hampers the kind of effective, efficient national security profiling that Israeli airline security officials practice so well.

" The result? TSA’s snoozing SPOT-ters catch nobody — for fear of being accused by the grievance lobby of singling anybody out."

In other words, profiling.

" Remember? Asked by CBS reporter Steve Kroft whether “a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach, Fla., would receive the same level of scrutiny as a Muslim young man from Jersey City,” Mineta responded in 2001, “Basically, I would hope so.” " (Link is Ms. Malkin's and is left intact.)

But why, you ask? I ask that, too. Why do toddlers, 8 year olds, people in wheelchairs get stripsearched and Muslims don't? Remember my previous posting?

http://gregb1967.blogspot.com/2010/11/obama-gives-pass-no-touch-muslims-junk.html

" " However, Muslim women will not have to face such worries. CNSNews.com has reported that Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — which is frequently tied to domestic terror plots — has been guaranteed that TSA officials will only pat down Muslim women in the head and neck area. " (emphasis and colour added)

Don't you feel soooooooooooooo much safer?

The SPOT program, when properly used, works.

I can't, and won't deny that profiling is going on. I can't deny that. But if it helps catch the real criminals, I won't complain.