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> vision2020-digest Digest                                Volume 02 : Issue 8
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> Today's Topics:
>   Pre-Session Newsletter - January 7th  [ RepTrail <RepTrail@infotrail.com> ]
>   Re: Common Sense and Profiling        [ PhilCooper@webtv.net (P C) ]
>   Re: Common Sense and Profiling        [ "Keith Howe" <kkhowe@moscow.com> ]
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> Subject: Pre-Session Newsletter - January 7th
> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 23:58:57 -0600
> From: RepTrail <RepTrail@infotrail.com>
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> 
> Dear Visionaries:
> 
> I will be sending out my weekly legislative newsletter again this year. I
> can be reached by e- mail at ttrail@moscow.com or ttrail@house.state.id.us.
> My fax is 208-334-5397 and my desk phone is 208-332-1202. My mailing
> address is Rep. Tom Trail, Idaho State Legislature, State Capitol Building,
> P.O. Box 83720, Boise, ID. 83720-0038.
> Education and Budget Problems:
> 
> The major issue facing the Legislature is the shortfall of an estimated
> $100,000,000 in tax revenues. I will be supporting a number of initiatives
> to lessen the impact on k-12 and Higher Education. These are:
> 
> 1) Delay the implementation of the tax cut passed last session. This
> measure alone takes about off about an estimated $90 million from the base
> budget. Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature passed a large tax cut
> and delayed the cut realizing the negative impact it would have on
> education. Other legislatures could follow this common sense approach.
> 
> 2) Utilize the estimated $70 million in the Budget Stabilization Fund.
> Generally, the Legislature doesn't like to use reserve funds for operation
> and program one time expenditures; however, continued funding of HB315 --
> interest payment to school districts with critical building needs and
> further assistance to school districts with similar needs might be one
> approach.
> 
> 3) Review all of the organizations that receive tax exemptions. The
> Legislature grants more than $300 million in tax exemptions every year.
> These exemptions are not rights, they are privileges. Every organization
> needs to demonstrate a positive cost-benefit relationship to the State. I
> have no doubt that a comprehensive review would demonstrate that a number
> of exemptions should be canceled. This would add more revenue to the state
> budget.
> 
> 4) Delay funding capital expenditures approved during the last session.
> This would include the $32 million Capitol Restoration. Locally, the
> University of Idaho is to receive about $10 million for the new
> Learning-Teaching Center. I'm simply noting that this is another source of
> funding that should be reviewed.
> 
> I'll report on other issues like Term Limits in my upcoming newsletters. If
> you have any questions, please contact me.
> Rep. Tom Trail, district 5
> ttrail@house.state.id.us
> Phone: 208-332-1202
> 
> I would like constituents to contact me by e-mail me with their ideas,
> comments and recommendations.
> Legislative newsletters and additional materials and information can be
> located on my web
> and home page http://www.infotrail.com/idaho
> 
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> Subject: Re: Common Sense and Profiling
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:29:32 -0600 (CST)
> From: PhilCooper@webtv.net (P C)
> To: escape@alt-escape.com (Bob Hoffmann)
> CC: vision2020@moscow.com
> 
> Yes, and the SS Agent apparently alarmed the flight crew with his
> behavior.  He also did not fill out the paperwork to carry his weapon on
> board properly...twice.  Get your facts straight Big Bob.  LOL!
> 
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> Subject: Re: Common Sense and Profiling
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 05:12:40 -0800
> From: "Keith Howe" <kkhowe@moscow.com>
> To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> 
> There are so many reasons why profiling is not only wrong but essentially
> useless that I don't even have to think them up myself... here is a
> smattering of quotes and links from people who have said it all better than
> I could hope to:
> 
> "It's hard in the best of times for Congress to resist temptation in passing
> symbolic legislation," said Jonathan Turley, a professor at George
> Washington University who specializes in constitutional law and national
> security issues. "In the aftermath of an attack, there is little
> limitation."
> 
> "If a tragedy causes us to take away basic rights," he said, "then the
> terrorists have won and -- like the lives lost -- have taken away something
> that is very precious."
> 
> http://www.globalexchange.org/september11/sfchron091301b.html
> 
> A key reason why racial profiling should never be considered a legitimate
> tool for law enforcement is that the concept of race is absolutely
> arbitrary. Who among us can distinguish an Afghan or a Saudi man from a
> crowd of people as diverse as that which passes through most East Coast
> airports? It is to be hoped that we've all learned enough from the recent
> murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh gas station owner in Mesa, Ariz., to
> know that a beard and a turban do not a terrorist make.
> 
> Once Congress passes laws that make racial profiling OK for the specific
> purpose of combating terrorism, some attorney somewhere will twist the
> meaning of that law to justify race-based traffic stops or drug searches in
> other, non-terrorist contexts. From there, it's a slippery slope to the
> mentality that driving while black means you're just asking for trouble from
> the police.
> 
>  http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/guest_columns/guestb10-04-01.htm
> 
> In 1972, profiling was implemented in order to deter hijackers. Twenty eight
> hijackings of U.S. passenger planes occured that year. Only when everybody's
> carry-on luggage was examined did such terrorist activity come to a halt.
> 
> http://www.aclu.org/news/w100996b.html
> 
> The unpleasant truth is that profiling can be statistically valid yet have
> discriminatory real world results, since most blacks who are stopped on
> suspicion (like most males) will be innocent people. And the more innocent
> people within a given group who are treated as suspect, the more all members
> of the group will suspect discriminatory motives on the part of the police.
> That's one more reason why statistics alone can't determine public policy.
> 
> http://www.stats.org/newsletters/9904/profile.htm
> 
> A career soldier and a highly decorated veteran of Desert Storm and
> Operation United Shield in Somalia, SFC Gerald, a black man of Panamanian
> descent, found that he could not travel more than 30 minutes through the
> state without being stopped twice: first by the Roland City Police
> Department, and then by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
> 
> During the second stop, which lasted two-and-half hours, the troopers
> terrorized SFC Gerald's 12-year-old son with a police dog, placed both
> father and son in a closed car with the air conditioning off and fans
> blowing hot air, and warned that the dog would attack if they attempted to
> escape. Halfway through the episode - perhaps realizing the extent of their
> lawlessness - the troopers shut off the patrol car's video evidence camera.
> 
> http://www.aclu.org/profiling/report/index.html