Politics prevails over common sense it looks like. An article culling various figures offering their thoughts about racial profiling.
Why didn't they interview law enforcement experts and thinkers? There should be more of a focus on behavioral experts too. I don't know why economics professor get so much weight on the subject of terrorism. That's not to discount their opinions, it's just not their domain of expertise.
I always assumed law enforcement would chase down a terror suspect much like we see on 'Criminal Minds.' Methodically examine the entire picture piecing together all the evidence. Eventually it leads you to a fresco. Racial profiling is just one part of that equation; not the only one.
But it sounds as though myopic bureaucratic and intellectual posturing bull shit is getting in the way.
A price will be paid I reckon. When we study the fall of Western culture a few decades from now, the way we handled the terrorist threat will be a key component of that examination.
"When we study the fall of Western culture a few decades from now, the way we handled the terrorist threat will be a key component of that examination."
ReplyDeleteI think it would be a case in point. Our deeply secular culture with it's receding and degraded faith based elements have made their own sub-cultural struggle a priority for decades. Neither side is willing to work well with the other to address the threat that comes from Medieval barbarians with modern technology who don't make a distinction between anyone other than themselves against the rest of the world. Western Culture's response is to try to contain and apprehend but not address the problem on the one hand. On the other it is to spend vast amounts of money, and lives away on trying to establish not-anti-Western, but Western like states in places where there is precious little desire to have such Enlightened systems of government and society. In frustration, we have resorted to brutal means (torture) and turning a blind eye to problems (like the dope trade) in exchange for a false sense of accomplishments that have to-date not squelched terrorism.
In other words, we're acting like myopic teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI concur.