Little Green Men

Subject: Little Green Men

If only the baddies were "little green men". How do we identify the baddies has always been a problem.
"Stop and search" was often deemed discriminatory as it clearly targeted young black men in preference to white men. Statistics were stated as the leading reason for targeting this section of the population since the type of crime the police were after, drug and knife related offences were more prevalent amongst this section of the community. Of course one could ask, was the higher arrest rate due to the fact that more young black men passed through the police filter and was there as great a chance that the white cohort in this age group wouldn't have produced similar statistics.
How to we target the 'baddies' if society as a whole is capable of the crime. Well clearly there are some giveaways.
If the crime is a financial white collar crime you don't go looking amongst the homeless. If the crime is one of speeding you leave the cyclists alone. If it is rape of a female you target men. When it comes to terrorism, in the days when the IRA were armed and on the warpath, people with an Irish accent attracted the spotlight and now-a-days, since Al-Qaeda hit on the Twin Towers and the subsequent success of ISIS in Syria and over the boarder in Iraq and their call to Jihad or holy war, people who look as if they come from that part of the world are suspect and the security forces are more stringent in their checks on Syrian looking men for instance. This leads to claims of racial stereo-typing and intolerance. Of passing judgement on people because of their ethnicity and so on. People become very excited when people's right to justice is infringed, as was witnessed when the Speaker of the House of Commons rose to deny the honour of President Trump to speak  in Westminster Hall to an assembly of both the Lords and the Commons when he arrives here on a State visit.   President Trumps ban on Muslim visitors from certain designated countries in the Middle East, which are deemed unstable seems, in a realpolitik world, to be sensible and unfortunately necessary but of course many people don't live in the real world, their world of make-believe where all men and women being equal their rights are based on the judicial standard that everyone is judged innocent until found guilty.
In a war and make no mistake we are at war,  innocence and guilt mean different things to either side and where the consequences are what we saw in Paris, then the rights of Habeas Corpus have to be addressed as has much of our squeamishness in dealing with the threat.