{"id":7288,"date":"2010-01-30T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:17:49","slug":"our-main-concern-is-not-terrorism-but-ugly-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/our-main-concern-is-not-terrorism-but-ugly-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Our main concern is not terrorism, but \u201cugly words\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is what a UK counter-terrorism expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1247252\/Police-focus-skin-colour-religion-profiling-stop-searches-senior-counter-terrorism-official-says.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">thinks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police should not focus on skin colour or religion when profiling for stop-and-searches as there is &#8216;no single terrorist profile&#8217;, a senior counter-terrorism officer said today.<\/p>\n<p>John Yates, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations, said police need to take a &#8216;flexible and dynamic&#8217; approach to profiling in order to stop suspected terrorists<\/p>\n<p>He warned that al Qaida regularly changed tactics to keep a step ahead and called for security staff to use their experience to apply stop-and-search powers &#8216;sensitively&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the failed Detroit plane plot at Christmas had <strong>reopened the debate on &#8216;profiling&#8217;, which he labelled an &#8216;ugly&#8217; word<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yates goes on to recommend a quota system for airport searches: for every bearded Muslim questioned, three white little old ladies must be strip-searched. In this way, the world will be kept safe from the horror of ugly words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is what a UK counter-terrorism expert thinks: Police should not focus on skin colour or religion when profiling for stop-and-searches as there is &#8216;no single terrorist profile&#8217;, a senior counter-terrorism officer said today. John Yates, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/our-main-concern-is-not-terrorism-but-ugly-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,307],"tags":[2178,2225,2265,2267],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-islam","tag-political-correctness","tag-terrorism","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}