Please spare us with your straw-man fake quotes. Who said that stuff? Why don't you provide actual, real quotes to support your arguments instead of your made up, straw-man crap? Why? Because you can't. Because they don't exist. The liberals you hold so much contepmt for reside only in your head.

between how the MSM treats its audience like a bunch of children who can't think for themselves, and the large portion of the voting public that actually VOTES like a bunch of chlidren who can't think for themselves? Just wondering....

(s)he would understand why (s)he comes off in that letter as such an Allen apologist, and an apologist for racists in general. Where people come up with this "blame the victim" crap is beyond me. Who cares if the aide played it up or not? What difference would that make? Take a look at the tape of the event, and you'll see that Allen's intent was to embarrass and ostracize S.R. Sidarth by using a racial epithet in front of a group of supporters.

There are more people who thought that then we would like to think. What's far scarier to me than the terrorist plots is the number of people who sit around believing that Bush is doing the best job possible, and have swallowed his "stay the course" BS hook-line-and-sinker. Some nights it literally keeps me awake at night.

That all the griping about "political correctness" boils down to people who are angry that they can't say "nigger" whenever and wherever they want anymore. I'm sure George Allen scored some points with his base with his "Macaca" routine, but he would have scored much higher had he been able to say "nigger" like he and they wished he could have.

Jeez, the world has become so complicated, hasn't it?

Your questions and conclusions all assume that anyone carrying explosives onto a plane would would be doing so INTENTIONALLY, which just isn't true. If someone can pick your pocket or take something out of your purse on a subway while you're on the way to the airport, then the same people are certainly capable of planting explosives on you without your knowledge. How hard could it be?

Works really well if you "see" and "know" everything. But you don't, do you? Even if you know and see less than everything, but still a lot, you're still just guessing.

Back in the eighties, the airport security at my hometown airport in Austin, Texas, made a practice of alerting officials at other airports identifying men with dreadlocks as potential drug dealers. Didn't frisk 'em or anything, just made phone calls so that authorities on the other end could take whatever measures they felt necessary. How nice.

"Call it as you see it" sure seems like a great idea when it's white folks making the calls.

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

I think about that comment a lot, actually.

"It is certainly possible that these hijackers could slip a knife in my mother's purse in order to avoid detection. It is also possible that they could stuff a knife up their ass. Neither of these are probable, and are irrelevant to the argument at hand."

I'm sorry, I guess I missed where someone wrote that this would be a wise plan. Either that, or you've thrown us a red herring. Having a knife on the plane now that cock pits have doors that actually lock isn't going to do a hijacker any good. But slipping an explosive onto an innocent and unsuspecting passenger that can be detonated from the parking lot while a plane is taxiing on the runway might be a useful plan to some terrorists. But hey, maybe I've watched too many James Bond movies.

My point is, racial profiling is like the death penalty--if it deterred 100% percent of the cases, that would be one thing. But it doesn't and it never will.

And I'll reiterate what I said earlier. Racial profiling is a wonderful idea if you happen to be white.

I was having a political discussion with my Republican, Bush-supporting father over the weekend. We didn't agree on much, but he made the point that the terrorists can't tell the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, and if they could, they wouldn't care.

So either my father is smarter and more astute than Orrin Hatch, or Orrin Hatch is a partisan hack with no sense of shame whatsoever. I'll just say for the record that I'm pretty certain that Orrin Hatch is smarter than my father.

I was only commenting on the last paragraph of your letter. That's why it was the only part I quoted. Reading it again, it doesn't specifically speak to 9-11.

9-11 was in 2001. It's 2006 now. It's pointless to talk about what we couldda, shouldda done then. There are countless things we could have done to stop 9-11. But we didn't. What's important now is how to stop the NEXT attack. That's what I'm talking about. Get out of the past, dude. Arguing that racial profiling would work now, because it might have worked then, assumes the terrorists are incapable of adapting their tactics.