Originally Posted by BonzoAPD
I started responding to RB's comment before yours was posted. If you want to apply the same principle then yes it would apply as well.
My argument is this. If we are now doing searches in subways to make sure that there are not terrorists going with bombs, what would you feel safer with? A. a totally random search in which a mother with three children is just as likely to be searched as someone from the demographic as all the recent terror attacks or B. search the people who fit the description of people who have been committing these terrorist attacks?
I'm with option B. I'm sure if you're life depended on it you're choice would be different.
So if thats the case then why aren't they searching anyone fitting the description of an Irishman? The IRA has carried out attacks on US soil numerous times as well as many attacks in England and Ireland. This makes them international terrorists....yet we do not stop every mick on the street and randomly search them or check their identification.
Selective enforcement is racism....we saw it in WWII with the internment camps and we are headed that way at fulll speed and no brakes. You may be willing to sacrafice your civil liberties thinking they will be returned later when all is clear, but you know as well as I do that once you get something in your hands it is highly unlikely you are going to give up control of it very easily.