At least this guy is not a pussy

Last week I poked fun of Neo-CooCoo (neo-conservative columnist) Charles Krauthammer who, too afraid to make a case for blatant racial profiling, argued we should simply stop searching certain segments of the population (yep, you guessed it - white and asian men) while continuing to search other segments (Arabs and - I'm not making this up - women that smell worse than Britney Spears). This is essentially university-style discrimination ("we're going to give every applicant an extra 25 points just for applying, except for white men") applied to our subway system ("we're going to stop searching every passenger, except for middle eastern looking men"). Both policies are a pussy's attempt to implement discrimination. Wouldn't it be better to just be intellectually honest and say we're going to take 25 points away from white applicants because they're white and we're going to search middle eastern men because they're middle eastern?

For an example of someone with some balls I point to Dov Hikind, a New York state legislator who is going to introduce legislation allowing New York police to engage in racial profiling. According to the New York Post:

The Brooklyn Democrat said the NYPD's 10-day-old tactic of randomly checking bags — without regard to race or ethnicity — at subway entrances may be politically correct, but it won't save lives.

"There are certain things you do in wartime that you don't do in peacetime," said Hikind, noting that he has voted against racial profiling in the past.

While I continue to oppose racial profiling on both moral and pragmatic grounds, I at least respect this guy for not being afraid to stand up for his beliefs. Of course, I can't help but wonder what other "wartime" measures he would support. Conscription? Censorship? Bob Hope specials? Is there any limit to the suffering he would impose on us?