Profiling evil

We need to live boldly and without fear.\nTo do so means to go on and not compromise our standards and equal protection of human rights and dignity under law. Now men ages 16 to 45 from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen are fingerprinted and tracked when entering the U.S.\nThough many Americans are developing an innate fear of Arab-looking people, we have to remember we're the land of the free, not of the secret police. It makes sense to monitor who you let in your home, but to single out a few when there's a whole world of potential terrorists out there? What about the Philippine terrorists who recently beheaded an American? Are we going to print and track Filipinos too? How about the man who murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortyn? Are we going to single out young Dutch men for tracking too?\n People who look like average college students can be terrorists too, as can women and children -- evidenced in the rise of young female Palestinian suicide bombers.\n The true American way gives us two choices: screen everyone or screen no one. This government still can't find bin Laden and wants to search nearly every middle easterner who comes here.\nInstead, why not use our technology to better screen bags or make Immigration and Naturalization Services do its job to make sure people are coming in for a reason? Most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were here legally, but many had previous passport violations. That information circulated around the intelligence community for years, but the government did nothing to "connect the dots." \nIf the government has reason to be suspicious, I'm all for investigating. But it's unjust to profile an entire nation based on the acts of a few. If we think all Saudi Arabians are evil, maybe we should stop buying their evil oil for our cars and SUVs.