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Identifying terrorists: Let's find a value for needle in haystack

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I'm torn on this. Part of me thinks 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear', but on a personal note, I've bought several books from Amazon which some could see as questionable ( Mein Kamp, Marx's Communist manifesto, etc ).

To a dispassionate reader, that could be seen as worthy of putting me on a dubious characters list. The fact that I'm reading them out of historical interest, not out of support for those ideologies is not something I'd trust somebody else to guess.

Even that's assuming a perfect state with no theft of information for blackmail purposes using embarrassing information such as MP's porn habits.

Part of me thinks that racial profiling probably isn't a terrible idea for this, but that's hardly fair ( infringe other innocents liberties so I can be left alone ).

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