{"id":33927,"date":"2013-05-18T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/profiling-vs-neutrality.html"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:29:36","slug":"profiling-vs-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/18\/profiling-vs-neutrality.html","title":{"rendered":"Profiling vs. Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"
It has occured to me several times\u00a0that a lot of the debate happening over the whole IRS501c4TeaPartyGate thing is like the issue of security profiling against terrorists. \u00a0<\/p>\n

"We should focus security screening on young Islamic males. That's where we've had most terrorist attacks from."
"But we can't just assume that's the only threat, and whether or not you like them, only a small minority have been a demonstrated danger. It would be corrosive to fairness, our society, and our legal system, to single out just one group."<\/p>\n

"We should focus 501(c)4 checking on Tea Party groups. That's where we have the most applicants from\u00a0and where we've see the most trouble with political activity leaking across legal bounds."
"But we can't just assume that's the only threat, and whether or not you like them, only a small minority have been a demonstrated danger. It would be corrosive to fairness, our society, and our legal system, to single out just one group."<\/p>\n

The irony here is that, to some\u00a0degree, the parties involved making the arguments and counter-arguments have been been reversed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Actually, Tea Party Groups Gave the IRS Lots of Good Reasons to Be Interested<\/a>
\n IRS profiling was a fiasco. Yet, some tea party groups have left a trail of fiscal problems and possible tax-code abuse.\n <\/p>\n

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It has occured to me several times\u00a0that a lot of the debate happening over the whole IRS501c4TeaPartyGate thing is like the issue of security profiling against terrorists. \u00a0 "We should focus security screening on young Islamic males. That's where we've had most terrorist attacks from.""But we can't just assume that's the only threat, and whether … Continue reading “Profiling vs. Neutrality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-homeland-security","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27913,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/airport-profiling-is-attractive-tempting-logical-and-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":33927,"position":0},"title":"Airport profiling is attractive, tempting, logical, and wrong","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-May-12 11:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd actually love to see this posted up at airports across the nation ... except that, in addition to logically criticizing profiling, it criticizes the whole TSA \"security theater\" regime, it would never be allowed. 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