Profiling is Wrong
Civil rights belong to everyone. Unless a person does something to forfeit those rights (i.e. commit a crime) they are entitled by their humanity to certain basic human rights. It was written into our founding documents, "all men are created equal." Not all American men, Christian men, or white men… but all men. And while we have struggled, and continue to struggle as a country to fulfill the promise of those words, they are no less true, and no less significant today. All men and women of all walks of life are created equal. Being of a certain race, ethnicity or religious creed is not a crime and therefore not a basis on which to deny a person of their civil rights. Because profiling does exactly that, it is wrong.
Profiling goes against the very idea that is America. We cannot claim to be a beacon of freedom and then steel that freedom away under the guise of protecting it. The whole idea of it would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.
I believe Benjamin Franklin put it best when he said, "Those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both."
Profiling goes against the very idea that is America. We cannot claim to be a beacon of freedom and then steel that freedom away under the guise of protecting it. The whole idea of it would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.
I believe Benjamin Franklin put it best when he said, "Those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both."
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