Hey - that my ox getting gored. I wonder how far back they go? My husband's father's family came over from Syria - we still have relatives in norther Lebanon (which was created from part of Syria).

I have a muslim friend - wears hajib - whose husband is from Algeria. She told me he was on the way to the airport to pick up one of their 4 kids from college and the car engine caught fire on the interstate just before the airport turnoff. She was so relieved it didn't happen at the airport because the whole family might well have ended up being taken by Homeland security for having a crap car.

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-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

Wow, i would be relieved too. You could end up in Guantanamo just for your appearance and bad luck.

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"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

Precisely, and very scary!! An Algerian Muslim's car just happened to catch on fire as he approached the airport today. Armed security troops were dispatched to the scene and the occupants were taken in for questioning.

If her friends tried to support her , we'd be labeled liberal crocks.

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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

Racial profiling is not seriousness about anything except making broad generalizations.

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"I find no black men appealing, they look like giant monkeys." -LilithIshtar (some member of another forum I used to be part of)

Which never works, because it lets too may people go through because they would never do anything like that - you can tell by looking at them. Well two 65 year old retired schoolteacher grannies were busted a few years back for running drugs in the RV.

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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

I wonder if ol' Timothy would be picked up under this scheme.

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