Disclaimer:  The following thought-provoking article is brought to you by the August 2002 issue of The Horse BC magazine.  A magazine about choppers.  Any choppers be it The Motor Company, or foreign.  I wish I had started reading this magazine earlier in my riding career.  I've always felt that although profiling goes against what we as americans truly believe in our hearts, there truly is a strange pattern here.  See if you can follow it and then form an opinion about profiling.  In case you haven't figured it out, I am a firm believer that all mid eastern habitants residing in the U.S. should be systematically deported.

 Without further adieu (sp?) here it is. 

No Racial Profiling

To ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us...airport screeners are not allowed to "profile" people.  They will, however, continue to perform random searches of 80 year old women, little kids, airline pilots with PROPER identification, secret service agents who are members of the presidents security detail, and 85 year old congressman with metal hips.  Lets pause for a moment and take the following test:

In 1972, 11 Isreali athletes were killed at the Munich Olympic games by:

a) Grandma Moses;

b) The night cleaning crew at Rockefeller Center;

c) Invaders from mars, or

d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:

a) Norwegians from the lichen herbarium of the University of Oslo;

b) Elvis;

c) A tour bus full of 80 year old women, or

d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

a) A pizza delivery boy;

b) Crazed feminists complaining that having to throw a grenade beyond it's own burst radius in basic training was an unfair and sexist job requirement.;

c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day, or

d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

a) Luca Brazzi, for not being given a part in the "Godfather II.";

b) The Tooth Fairy;

c) Butch and Sundance, who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from their train mission, or

d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1993, The World Trade Center was bombed by:

a) The entire cast of "Cats";

b) Martha Stewart;

c) Cheese-crazed tourists from Wisconsin, or

d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

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 it's next villian: "Mustapha the Merciless", or

d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed by:

a) Bugs Bunny, Wil E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd;

b) The U.S. Supreme court;

c) Barney, or

d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

Hmm...nope, no patterns here,  I don't know why we should ever even think about "profiling."

Ripper - The Horse BC