You’re right. I’m sure ALPA lawyers will get him his job back, back pay and more.
Back to the gun on El Al. I’m sure El Al is very good a detecting terrorists. The old adage “it takes one to know one” comes to mind. The nation that now denounces terrorism used it very effectively themselves. The terrorist actions of the <a href="http://etzel.org.il/english/" target="_blank">Irgun</a> go forgotten by many these days. However, the effectiveness and the results they achieved are not lost on today’s terrorists. They see it as a lesson in how to achieve their goals. Now every Arab male between 16 and 60 represents a potential terrorist to them. They spend vast amounts of money on security because they have to. Yesterday’s terrorists are today’s government politicians and they are on the other side of the circle. The circle of “Live by the sword. Die by the sword.” Now they desperately try to keep themselves from being blown up. Strange how history keeps repeating itself.
Profiling separates a group. It treats them as suspects. The more they are subjected to this sort of hostile treatment, the more they see those doing it as the enemy. Hostility is now spread throughout the group, not just the radical fringe. It takes you further away from a place where people can coexist peacefully. Think of the outcry if the British had used profiling to deal with the Irgun. It would have been denounced as anti-Semitism. But it’s okay for El Al to use against Arabs! <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
I have seen enough of El Al to know that I don’t want to live in a world like that. I certainly wouldn’t point to them as an example of how things should be. What a world. When terrorists can create a nation and then denounce terrorism I have to wonder if even they believe their means justified their ends. No. I think they are hypocrites.
[ 05 February 2002: Message edited by: LevelFive ]</p>