Terrorism | Racial Profiling Will Make America Safer

Whether you think the present emergency rises to the level of a war or not, one thing that is fast becoming clear is that Americans at large are much more tolerant of racial profiling than they were before the terrorists struck [on September 11, 2001]. This fact was illustrated on September 20 [2001], when four men “of Middle Eastern appearance” were removed from a Northwest Airlines flight because other passengers refused to fly with them. A Northwest spokesman explained that under FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] rules, “the airline has no choice but to re-accommodate a...

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