To ensure we Americans never offend anyone - - - -Particularly
fanatics intent on killing us - airport screeners will not be allowed
to "PROFILE" people. They will continue random searches of 80-year-old
women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret
Service agents who are members of the President's security detail,
85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal Of Honor winning
former Governors.

Let's pause a moment and take the following test:

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and
massacred by: (a) Olga Corbutt (b) Sitting Bull (c) Arnold
Schwartzeneger (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

2. In 1979,the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon
by: (a) John Dillinger (b) The King of Sweden (c) The Boy Scouts (d)
Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) Pee Wee Herman
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year
old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:    (a)
The Smurfs (b) Davy Jones (c) The Little Mermaid (d) Muslim male
extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy
diver was murdered by: (a) Captain Kidd (b) Charles Lindberg (c)
Mother Teresa (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17
and 40

7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid who had a few sticks of
dynamite left over
   from the train job.
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
(a) Richard Simmons
(b) Grandma Moses
(c) Michael Jordan
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers (b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's
women problems (c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next
villain: "Mustapha the Merciless" (d) Muslim male extremists mostly
between the ages of 17 and 40

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed and
thousands of people were killed by: (a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote,
Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd (b) The Supreme Court of Florida (c) Mr.
Bean (d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against: (a)
Enron (b) The Lutheran Church (c) The NFL (d) Muslim male extremists
mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by: (a)
Bonnie and Clyde (b) Captain Kangaroo (c) Billy Graham (d) Muslim male
extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


Hmmm . . . nope, no patterns anywhere to justify PROFILING!!!!!!

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Submitted,
SCPO Don Harribine, USN(Ret)