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Old 02-03-2005, 15:22   #74
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Re: Muslims should expect to be stopped....

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Originally Posted by Graham
What some people in here and the Home Office Minister seem to be arguing is that those who *are* stopped and searched should be *happy* to be so, "just in case", *because* it will "prevent terrorism".
Noone should be happy about it, but people should be reasonable about it. If someone reported a rape by a large man, dark hair, long beard, blue jeans and white t-shirt, and I happened to be walking in the area at the time, not long after, i'd understand why I was questioned. I wouldn't like it, but I wouldn't bleat that it was against my civil rights, that I was prejudiced, etc.

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Originally Posted by Graham
Yes, you use *intelligence* (which could be *supplied* by the innocent members of the Muslim community who may have suspicions of one of their members) to investigate that person.

Of course if you've ******ed off the members of that community by treating them *all* as potential terrorists, some who may have come forward might, instead say "to hell with them".
So if we agree that inside informants (Like Ramrod said) is extremely unlikely, we have to rely on intelligence. Is that the same intelligence you claim is gathered against our civil rights?
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