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Follow on Google News | Terrorist Bomb-Implant Plan Could Trigger TSA Profiling, Says Public Interest Law ProfessorThe administration's warning to governments and airlines that terrorists might attempt to board planes with explosives concealed in their bodies could accelerate a movement to engage in terrorist profiling, including religion and ethnicity
Banzhaf has suggested using the "Goldilocks" He notes that the U.S. Supreme Court has authorized the use of factors like race in making governmental decisions which serve a compelling governmental interest, and that the U.S. Department of Justice has expressly authorized it for use in stopping terrorists. "Despite this, many people still think either that its unconstitutional, or that it would not be effective. But a complex mathematical analysis shows that using factors like religion and ethnicity -- as well as age and gender -- in screening procedures, would make them far more effective in stopping terrorists," Banzhaf notes that using these factors in terrorist profiling would also help to deal with some of the current public outrage about body searches, which have included pat downs of toddlers, forcing an elderly woman to remove a diaper, etc. Banzhaf, a mathematician as well as a public interest lawyer, has proposed a terrorist profiling plan which would made use of these factors, and is working with a legislator on a bill to make it happen. FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE: TSA Screening Problems Exploding, But There's a Remedy: http://www.prlog.org/ JOHN F. BANZHAF III, B.S.E.E., J.D., Sc.D. Professor of Public Interest Law George Washington University Law School, FAMRI Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor, Fellow, World Technology Network, Founder, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Creator, Banzhaf Index of Voting Power 2000 H Street, NW, Suite S402 Washington, DC 20052, USA (202) 994-7229 // (703) 527-8418 http://banzhaf.net/ # # # John F. Banzhaf III is a Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School [http://banzhaf.net/] End
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