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From: chrisa@tekig5.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Rambomania - or some Americans talk BIG but act small
Message-ID: <702@tekig5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-May-86 13:00:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekig5.702
Posted: Fri May 23 13:00:15 1986
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Reply-To: chrisa@tekig5.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <392@cad.BERKELEY.EDU> hijab@cad.BERKELEY.EDU (Raif Hijab) writes:
>Have you checked into how someone with a darker skin, *Arab* or
>*Middle Eastern* looking, is treated by those same black leather
>jacketed police? Security forces automatically assume that fair-
>skinned, *European-looking* individuals are clean, and that people
>like myself, with the further calamitous identification *Palestinian*,
>are terrorists until proven otherwise. This is not only the case
>in Europe, but at major U.S. international airports (JFK,LAX) as well.

I won't comment on how bigotted that policy is because it is overshadowed
by it's stupidity.  If you will remember, the British just recently 
prevented a bombing of an El Al Airliner.  The bomb was carried not by any
Middle Eastern looking person but by the girlfriend of a Middle Eastern
looking person (she didn't know she was carrying it).  What's to prevent
a terrorist from using an unsuspecting third party to carry out the attack
for them?
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