Right-Wing 'Experts' Justify Profiling, Body Scanners with Familiar Paranoid Rhetoric

By Gavin Dahl, Raw Story. Posted January 4, 2010.

A retired general makes egregious claims that that "in the next 30-100 days," there is "very high probability a US airliner will come down."

In the wake of the failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound flight, a large number of so-called experts have raised the ire of civil libertarians in their pursuit of increasingly draconian security measures.

Appearing on Fox News Saturday, a retired U.S. general called for "very serious, harsh profiling," singling out in particular all 18-28 year old Muslim men, calling for them to be "strip searched" at airports.

As new TSA regulations take effect, passengers flying into the country from abroad will be subject to random screening or so-called "threat-based" screens.

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