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July 10, 2008 | The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before it opens an investigation. The impending new rules, which would be implemented later this summer, allow bureau agents to establish a terrorist profile or pattern of behavior and attributes and, on the basis of that profile, start investigating an individual or group. Agents would be permitted to ask "open-ended questions" concerning the activities of Muslim Americans and Arab-Americans. A person's travel and occupation, as well as race or ethnicity, could be grounds for opening a national security investigation.
The FBI's plan to "profile" Muslims | Salon
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So what does this teach us? That racial profiling is okay now, that it's a good idea to make assumptions about one based on ethnicity?
Ah, nothing like good ol' fashioned bigotry and racism. Brings out the "land of the free" don't ya think?
