A Lovers’ Quarrel with Airport Profiling

Smartsnacks have replaced complimentary meals for domestic Coach Class customers.

That`s what Farheen is talking about in her article ... you dummies ...

Success means a pack of Smartsnacks .... shame ....

I think almost all Arab airlines are best in service and hospitality. European airlines come third after some third world airlines. The worst airlines are all North American airlines including Canadian airlines. They deserve to go bankrupt and should be out of business.

atif2:

There is a difference between suspecting someone and holding him/her guilty. Young blacks driving expensive cars in the US and even Canada are routinely held up by the police on suspicion of driving stolen cars, but would be let off after ensuring that they are innocent, Indians returing from India are invariably asked additional questions on the jewellery they are bringing back but returning Canadians from other places are not asked the same question. All profiling is based on statistical probability, the entire capitalist marketing system is based on profiling; I receive a lot of calls from time-share condo people and people trying to sell me cheap long distance calls to India for similar reasons. I have no problem in being profiled at airports for looking like those who performed heinous acts, but am definitely against putting people in a god-forsaken place in Cuba and denying them justice.

.... on a three hour flight last week i was told that they did not have any of their famous $5 ``smartsnacks`` and that i would have to make do with just one packet of pretzels ...... when another passenger asked for a diet coke refill the stewardess slapped him ......... the air marshall tackled a four hundred pound man who insisted on being fed and shackled him to the seat ........ some passengers resorted to cannibalism ............ it was ugly


http://www.nwa.com/services/onboard/special/meals.html

#31 hey, stop discriminating against varicose veins (finger wagging icon)!

#31 hey, stop discriminating against varicose veins (finger wagging icon)!

Re: # 28

atif,

...... it made me cry because it is so true ...... as a frequent traveller, the main reason i dread getting on a plane in us is not because of the indignity of a cavity search and the fear of terrorism, it is the fear of being of being scolded by ugly middle-aged women if you ask for a second packet of pretzels .............. these unionized menopausal women with big hair and runs in their stockings are a bigger threat to the american way of life than al-qaeda and zulus running amok in jackson heights ..........

#28 by atif2

....economy class passengers have to even make do without it ~shudders~...

... and then one misses the steaming hot meals served on PIA even on 90 minutes flights ...

There`s a limit to being nashukra ... like our esteemed colleagues here .... licking gora boots for a few pennies ....

#24 by atif2 on January 9, 2007 7:08am PT


Imagine you use this defense in court


There`s a difference between what a court would do and what law enforcement would do...law enforcement, rightly, would pick you out for extra scrutiny because to your paki persuasion..a court won`t sentence you to jail for that...

scoutNasshee, Samina, cobra, iron thank you :)

hamdim # 17 - Why did it sadden you? I heard in economy class of short-hop flights within US you dont even get pretzles anymore. And what passes for an attendant`s smile in first class, economy class passengers have to even make do without it ~shudders~

#26 profiling is the polite equivalent of the tabilan asking hindus and sikhs to wear saffron and other things to distingusih them from the momins, or the Nazis asking the jews to adorn themselves with the star of david. Unacceptable all of them. Unfortunately you (not you atif - but you= all of us) protest against some, rileaginst a few, and say they deserve it ...and many a time accept them as they are...

chaltahai # 7 ``you are equating violent crime with terrorism. latter being a subset. Americans also have a higher chance of dying from heart disease. what is your point?``

oye, terrorism and violent crime is something someone does to you. heart disease is something you do to yourself.

it is H-1B visa holders like you that make me a firm believer in profiling all H-1B visa holders for stupidity...

I have noticed that prior to doing their profiling thing on you they make sure to abuse the fat white American standing in line ahead of you before you get there. So I think for every colored person who is profiled, they abuse at least one fat white American as well. Seems fair to me.

dost_mittar # 3 ``as the cliche goes, while 99% of Muslims/Arabs are innocent``

indeed we live in a world where cliches, rather than human rights rule our life. Imagine you use this defense in court that while 99% of the sorority girls were god fearing and church going, it was that 1% of one night standers who really mean ``yes`` when they say ``no`` that made you force her into having sex with you.

My point being that profiling is ``group punishment`` and if we must pay for the sins of others, then wouldnt you think that the profiling of Daniel Pearl (the murdered jewish journalist in Pakistan) as a palestinian child killer was fair?

Re: # 22 zeemax is hissed off ever since the fat middle aged block refused to finger him during a body cavity serach, but preferred to use a howitzer! (T)

This is all so silly.

If some folks could manoeuver-wide body aircraft in the air like motor rickshaws through heavy traffic with a few hours of cessna training, evade Norad security cordons, come at utility pole levels and punch a hole in a wall without grazing or singeing the lawn right underneath, could plunge a jet straight nose-down like a spinning top to drill a big hole without leaving any furrows around ... then they`ll figure out practically anything.

Oh wait ... I think they did ... but shampoos and baby milk are out now. Maybe something else ... who knows?

And I believe in a Santa Claus and the 19 Easter bunnies too.