Profiling is a large part of what the police do. You are looking for someone who fits a pattern.

Everybody knows that an illegal alien in Arizona is as likely to have a Spanish accent as it is that the guy driving at 100 MPH in a black 2010 Mustang is the same one who just robbed a bank and sped off a mile away in a 2010 black Mustang.

The chances are that the person with black skin is ten times more likely to have committed SOME crime than a person with white skin.

In short, there is no longer even a myth that racial discussions are subject to facts.

This is one of those basic truths, one of those outright admissions from the establishments, that everybody agrees to ignore. It is like the Mantra.

Mantra Thinking is the only way one would strip this kind of public secret naked.

The court which overturned most of the Arizona immigration law read this perfectly. First of all, they ignored the fact that the Federal government was not enforcing the immigration law.

It was a standard present-day decision. First of all, nobody refers to it as “an immigration law,” thought that term is understood perfectly. Secondly, the explanation of it has nothing to do with the reality of what is being discussed.

I haven’t read it and it may refer to the Fourteenth Amendment and racial profiling or to the right of a state to limit its population to people legally in the Untied States.

Those who make a living debating this stuff will find an argument that takes up the necessary number of words.

And professional commentators will debate whatever the professional word-makes choose to put in.

The only thing that really matters is that you are not one of the morons who takes this “debate” seriously.

There is no room for policy based on doing anything about crime or illegal immigration. All the professionals are busy “doing something,” and there is no one who demands that the real problem be at least discussed.

Excuse me now. I have to go take my shoes and belt off and get on a plane.

If I take a shampoo bottle it will be confiscated. No drinks with umbrellas are allowed because the umbrellas could be used to hijack the plane.

The people who formulated this crap make their livings as experts.

The ones who enforce them are officers of the law.