For one thing, it’s NOT purely “racial” anything, it’s called “pattern analysis.” Certain groups predominate in certain criminal behavior areas – the Mafia is generally Italian, the “Russian Mob” is generally….well, Russian, cocaine importers are largely Columbian, and Islamic terrorists tend to be (1) virtually all Islamic (2) mostly Arabic and (3) mostly male.

But “pattern analysis” takes into account a lot more than just ethnic background, it takes into account behavior (ie. suspicious activities), mode of dress and a whole host of other considerations.

I DON’T want the organized crime task force wasting time and resources tracking down American Swedes, American blacks and little old ladies when they KNOW they should be targeting Italian social clubs (and I’m part Italian).

Likewise, I don’t want valuable TSA resources wasted on grannies, businessmen and college coeds when they KNOW they should be focused primarily on Arabic, Muslim males.

Terrorism is NOT a “crime.”

That’s correct, “Terrorism is NOT a crime.”

Terrorism is an act of unconventional warfare, making international terrorists, in effect “enemy soldiers” engaged in warfare against the civilian populations of the U.S.

The facts that they act as “soldiers” without an indentifying uniform and target civilian populations BOTH violate the Geneva Accords – that’s why they DON’T have the status of POW’s but are held as “illegal combatants.”

In many cases, the abject stupidity of some of our citizens (especially the ACLU, CAIR and other terrorist sympathizers) is as dangerous as the terrorists themselves.