The ACLU Was For It Before They Were Against It

From Special Report:

The Transportation Security Administration's effort to train security screeners at 40 major airports to analyze actions instead of race to identify suspicious travelers has come under fire from the ACLU despite previous support for similar proposals. In a letter to Congress last year, the group urged law enforcement to act based "on the observation of an individual's behavior" and one local ACLU branch recently passed a resolution that "sends a clear message to officers that stops and detentions should be based upon behavior, not general characteristics."

But now that the TSA is doing exactly that, the group has filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts to block the use of behavior detection with the ACLU's director of privacy rights saying that "is a code word for targeting brown-skinned males" between the ages of 17 and 45. It's not only racial profiling, he argues, it's ethnic profiling.

Which is exactly what we should have been doing all along. If you're an Arab male between 17 & 45, it should be more difficult for you to get on an airliner than it is for me. That's just the way it should be. It isn't a bunch of 49 year old white guys that have been blowing stuff up around the world.