Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   In fact, what I have done is to oppose the idea that law enforcement asking
> > random people for their ID 

> Even that wouldn't raise the outcry we have here. But police aren't being 
> told to check *random* people. They're not stopping every tenth person 
> driving past, like they do with the sobriety checkpoints. They're stopping 
> people who *look* like an illegal immigrant.

> They are using a profile. They aren't using "random". Stopping "random" 
> people isn't anything to do with "If 90% of the lawbreakers are X, then you 
> should check people who are X", regardless of what X is.

  This conversation is going in circles. If I dared to repeat my original
point once again, it would go on and on forever.

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                                                          - Warp

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