Dan Fanelli asks, “Does this look like a terrorist?”
Lt. Commander Dan Fanelli is a former Navy and commercial pilot who has thrown his hat into the political ring in Florinda. Fanelli is currently running in the GOP primary. If he wins the nomination he will then be up against the Democratic incumbent Alan Grayson for his Florida Congressional seat. This may not seem like big news, but Fanelli’s ads, which have not yet but aired on TV, are making a big splash. Unfortunately, due to copyright issues we could not post a direct link to his commercials, but check out the videos he has at his website and you can see a few controversial clips.
http://electdan2010.com/Videos4.html
Is Fanelli purposing we use … RACIAL PROFILING!? Many people think that is exactly what he is saying, but Dan claims that is not the case. In an interview with Roger Hedgecock, he explained that the government needs to be looking at behavior more closely and not focus so much on this blank sweep mentality. So, his idea may be better described as “Behavior Profiling”. Is this illegal? Is this immoral? There is at least one thing everyone can agree on. The current system is not working.
Faisal Shahzad, more commonly known as the suspect in the attempted Time Square bombing, was arrested on a Dubai-bound plane right before take off. We now know Shazad was on the “no fly” list, he paid for his ticket in cash, he was only flying one way, and he had no luggage. I don’t care what color your skin is. That certainly fits a behavior profile of a terrorist in my opinion. Anyone that can not admit that a person fitting that pattern of behavior needs a secondary screen is delusional. Another question I have is why do we have a “no fly” list if people on that list can still fly? The Obama administration blamed the airline for not checking on the updates for the “no fly” list. Do airlines have to check each name manually? That can not be how it works. If that is how it works, then it needs to be setup so people are checked automatically?
So, racial profiling is defiantly wrong, but if the system is not designed to look at the totality of the circumstances under which people are traveling then its piratically useless. We should not be missing the guy who paid for his ticket in cash, with a one way ticket he bought with cash because we are too busy doing a full body scan on the 89 year old grand mother that bought a round trip ticket to Wyoming to visit her grandkids.
