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Thursday, June 06, 2002

# Posted 6:17 PM by Dan  

Nicholas Kistof and Mark Steyn discuss racial profiling and political correctness. Where do we draw the line? Kristof criticizes the Bush administration for "widespread detentions of Muslims, twisting the law to keep them behind bars while denying that civil liberties have been abused....the administration has wallowed in precisely the kind of hysterical wartime infringement of civil liberties that history always ends up judging harshly." A few lines later, he acknowledges that "young Arab men are more likely to ram planes into nuclear power plants than are little old ladies, and as such they should be more vigorously searched." So it's okay to detain Arabs but not Muslims? Kristof states that "we who care about civil liberties need to realign balances between security and freedom." Where do Ashcroft's proposed rules for foreign visitors fit into this new realignment?
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