Finally.....

Random bag searches, recently instituted on New York subways and other mass transit systems, have absurdly been conducted without the racial profiling of passengers. It is as stupid a policy as any I have witnessed. By randomly picking out passengers for searches, the chances of finding a bomb carrying terrorist are reduced and potential bomb carrying terrorists know that their chances of getting stopped are miniscule, giving them comfort that their evil plans have a greater chance of success. You can argue that occasionally, that a suicide bomber may be of a different ethnic group or a woman but the bulk of potential terrorists, probably more than 95%, are young men from the Middle-East.

Finally, some New York State lawmakers have come out in favor of racial profiling saying that we have to battle risk with effective counter measures.

state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said police should be focusing on those who fit the "terrorist profile."

"They all look a certain way," said Hikind, a Democrat from Brooklyn. "It's all very nice to be politically correct here, but we're talking about terrorism."

On Tuesday, Republican City Councilman James Oddo said the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack by Middle Eastern men in hijacked airplanes prompted him to publicly declare his support for Hikind's statements.

Its just silly to search the bags of little old blue haired ladies, fat out-of-towners on their way to popular Broadway plays or the numerous other ethnic groups where the risk is extraordinarily low. And if you are a policeman, how stupid would you feel when you have to search people that are clearly unlikely to be carrying bombs?

Liberal political correctness, particularly in this case, is also a disease that has to be fought. This war against terrorism is a fight where we have to have the will to win, an approach that is effective and use our resources wisely. Targeting Middle-Eastern men for searches makes sense and I applaud those elected officials that have come out and said what needed to be said.