you will not have police officers asking people what their race or ethnic group is. in fact, that's not what we would want at all because it's all about the perception of the officer. that's all that would have to be recorded. and black street crime is not the issue, respectfully, i have to disagree. the issue is how we deploy our law enforcement officers in ways that are effective, fair and carry out the most important ideals of our society. so for those reasons, i would support any efforts to pass s-1670, the end racial profiling act, and to revise the department of justice's profiling guidance. i thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you, and i look forward to the committee's questions. thank you. >> thank you very much, professor harris. chief davis, you spent your lifetime in law enforcement, and you've heard the testimony of officer gale that suggested in various strong and pointed language that raising this question, racial profiling, really -- he says unless you believe police are racist, he suggests this is unnecessary. so what is your answer to

ethnic minority militants making it a top political challenge. aung san suu kyi won her seat in april, her party is pursuing its campaign promise of revising the pro-military constitution. the party is expected to back bills proposed by the ruling party if it considers them instrumental in democratizing the country. >>> turning to india, former finance minister is the country's new president. he was sworn in on wednesday after winning last week's election with support from the ruling congress party. he was elected by members of national and state parliament on sunday. he won about 70% of votes beating the opposition party candidate by a large margin. at the inauguration ceremony, he stressed that poor people should be given their share of the wealth brought about by the country's economic growth. nearly half of children aged five or younger are suffering from malnutrition. in india the president is anch seen as a symbol of national unity with the prime minister holding the real political power. it's rare for a political veteran like mukherjee to

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based on race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is disturbing, i think it's important also to note that it is poor law enforcement. law enforcement is a finite resource. using law enforcement resources profiling as opposed to relying on our facts based on behavior suggesting a crime is a waste of that law enforcement resource. it leaves us less safe and more at risk when we don't target based on conduct and behavior suggestive of a crime but based on other considerations informed by prejudice. my comments today will focus on religious profiling of american muslims. up to 6 million americans know what it's like to be looked upon with suspicion in the post-9/11 america. perhaps even before. although muslim americans work hard and play by the rules and a small number don't. many even live the american dream and send their kids to college and earn a living just like everyone else. yet, many know all too well what it means to be pulled off of an airplane, pulled out of line, denied service, called names, or even physically attacked. like other americans, muslim-americans want law e

loma amsterdam could compete with new york for the title of modern babylon more than two hundred ethnic groups lived here. the whole of post-war poland has been working hard to build the image of europe's most tolerant country to legalize soft drugs and prostitution as well as same sex marriages freedom of opinion and liberty are the call values of the modern netherlands. as it. helps. status will be. that i will be no. drugs consumption there will be no free alcohol consumption on the streets so the youth will be protected so they won't be doing hopeful things. these young people are representatives of the islamic organization shari'a for holland there are groups of this kind all across western europe only recently to great britain ban a similar group of islamists the chief mission of these orthodox muslims is to establish shari'a law. that's the combination between democracy and sharia it's either democracy or syria the same is the twenty nine year old leader of shari'a for holland even though he is actually of moroccan descent christine was born in the netherlands schooled here and i

>> i disagree respectfully that it's an ethnic play here. i think it's a poor choice of words by john sununu. what i'm more interested is the role of john sununu, this former white house chief of staff, he's been romney's biggest attack dog in this campaign. he's giving romney an edge in a week when he needs an edge, a change in the topic. have sununu out there trying to push that obama's dishonest. that obama's a liar. he's throwing around these phrases. this captures reporters' attention. i think it is a play by the romney campaign to get something else on the radar beside romney's tax returns. i do not thick it was an ethnic play there. >> stop there. assume i said to you, learn how to be an american. >> it's a poor phrase. >> what does it mean? is it a poor choice of words? why don't you learn to be an american, costa? >> i think it means you made a mistake in that phrase. >> what do you mean? i considered it a serious slur against somebody, a fellow american to say they're not really an american. >> if you meant that in a direct way, it

afghanistan is all tribal and ethnic. we in the united states we are not perfect but we have come a long way to solving the tribal, ethnic, racial problems. we're ahead of it. the next thing is good governance. we kind of throw it away. but glen beck is trying to educate us again. we were given a great government. a lot of countries when they were founded they had leaders who were corrupt and incompetent. we have a nation of governance where the laws are respected by all and we have a succession plan. look at what is happening in the middle east today. a lot of what you are seeing is people going to the streets because there's no succession plan. when mubarack tried to hand over the government to his son is when the egyptian people said no. the same thing happen nod tunisia and morocco. they go to war and civil war when people don't agree on who will be the next leader. we go to the ballot box and not barricades. the next thing we have going for us is demographics. it's like goldilocks and the three bears. you don't want

one bush admistration official once said, religious or ethnic or racial stereotyping is picay goolg thene vs ic hode to tprnor al uhe rnen toseopho i t justice department's racial profiling guidance and urge my colleagues in congress to pass the end racial profiling act. thank you. >> nkonsmll. ulve aype em ende idge w ber 11chug sid statements of constitutional principle. particularly when it came to those of the musli faith, that r saiis lareont ns osoulor stitndsetn t me or anthyo fyo kny. thank you, sir. >> congresswoman judy chu represents the 32nd district of california. nc09. shs fit che-icomve ectons. sh rshegron aspac icca. allyhe svedinth california state assembly. we're honored that you're here today. please proceed. >> thank you, senator. ashair of thngio aspac icca gratulfo tpoit s h yutdi alofg aca iaers if landers like other minority communities have felt the significant effect of racial profiling throughout american hiy. tineslu tjaeser rn, thst1 rarong ra muslims, we know what it's like to be targeted by our own government. it results in harassment, bungd tiev vice insedi

in afghanistan, it's all tribal, all ethnic. we in the united states are not perfect but we have really come a long way towards solving those tribal, regional, ethnic, racial problems. so we're ahead of it. the next thing is good governance. now, we kind of throw it away although thank goodness, glenn beck is trying to educate us again, we really were given a great government. a lot of countries when they were founded had leaders who were in it for themselves, who were corrupt, who were incompetent. we didn't. we have a nation of governance where our laws are respected by all, where we have a succession plan. look at what's happening in the middle east today. a lot of what you're seeing in these middle east countries is people going to the streets because there's no succession plan. when mubarak tried to hand over the government to his son, is when the egyptian people said no, we don't want that. the same thing happened in tunisia and morocco. we kind of figured it out. we may go to the ballot box but we don't go to the barricad

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between those who are with the regime or against the regime though that exists between different ethnic and confessional groups and it's a powder keg if ever you want to. to find one that's why i said to i said last night to a british foreign office minister what are you doing in syria have you any idea of the virtual nuclear explosion in the us critical area that you are helping to bring about did you learn nothing from afghanistan did you learn nothing from flying osama bin laden to afghanistan to fight the red army. this is even more dangerous because it has course front here with israel it's on the shores of the mediterranean so close to europe itself and it is part of if you wanted to draw out that way an arc involving iran iraq with its big shia majority. the syrian government and the people who support and of course the. national resistance movement in lebanon hezbollah that's a very powerful arc with a lot of firepower and one of the characteristics of she is a witch the foreign office minister that i talked to last night appeared oblivious to was the shiites are quite ready to

of any kind whatsoever you mention these ethnic groups that are just link opposition in syria do you predict a full scale slide into civil war and if so do you think that person will be gunning to get involved well i think there already is a civil war in syria the massacres that are taking place are almost entirely demarcated by sectarian divisions. the. if you like the dichotomy that exists in the country it's not just between those who are with the regime or against the regime though that exists between different ethnic and confessional groups and that's a powder keg if ever you want to find one that's why i said to i said last night to a british foreign office minister what are you doing in syria have you any idea of the virtual nuclear explosion in critical area that you are helping to bring about did you learn nothing from afghanistan did you learn nothing from flying osama bin laden to afghanistan to fight the red army. this is even more dangerous because it has course front to your with with israel it's on the shores of the mediterranean so close to europe itself and it is par

sects which are substantial in number but a minority in the state as a whole there are different ethnic groups kurdish people for example are terrified of the victory of a jihadist extremist islamic victory so that's undoubtedly one of the reasons why the syrian government is still holding on in the teeth of what is a thorough going and massive international conspiracy against them not because they're a dictatorship because the west likes dictatorships in the arab world saudi arabia is the grimmest dictatorship of them all and is the best friend of the west not because it's one family rule because of course all these arab dictatorships are one family rule in saudi arabia the families even given its name to the country even kim jong il didn't do that so it's not because of dislike of dictatorship no it's because the syrian regime refuses to follow western orders and has always refused to follow western orders that's why they want to bring them down they're all mixed signals they want the thermostat he seems to suggest that he will step down that he won't what do you think will happen and

they build coalitions around ethnic and sectarian lines and they speak up for other marginalized groups. that's really important that the women are there and -- this isn't hillary, but the women are there not just representing their own points of view, but also the other marginalized groups. they act as mediators and help foster compromise. when women organize in large numbers, they galvanize opinion and help change the course of history. you're going to hear from six extraordinary women tonight, and the first one, will you open this up and give us an opening

smith was exposed to all kinds of ethnicities, all kinds of different immigrants. his mother was the daughter of immigrants. his father was the son of immigrants. he worked in an area that had sailors from all over the world. he worked in a neighborhood that had all kinds of people from all over the world. in fact, he had joked at one time that even representatives from chinatown came up for one of the marriages of his daughter. so i would say that he would be more understanding of an open immigration or a very widely construed program for immigration just because that's what he grew up with. >> beverly gage, you want to add anything to immigration? one of the questions i remember as a student was compare and contrast, immigration then, immigration now. >> right. i think it's really true that that was at the core of who al smith presented himself to be to the world. and this question of immigration and labor was one of the hot issues. so immigration law, when it was being immigration restriction, which is passed in the 1920s, it was -- you had decades of debate abo

and their property taken from them, detained and confined because they happened to be part of an ethnic group which had just attacked the united states, the japanese, i should say, attacked the united states, and, therefore, they were branded as possibly being a danger in the second world war because of some connection they might have with a geopolitical or political group. how would you make that distinction, or do you happen to think japanese interment camps were justifiable? >> no, i don't. and when i say that in some limited circumstances some consideration of individuals or organizations, geography and religion can be justified in the war on terror, i am not saying that that means that any consideration under any circumstances of ethnic profiling and religious profiling is okay. all i'm saying is that i am unwilling to say that it can never be used, and i give examples in my testimony. for instance, you know, suppose that on 9/11 the fbi had gotten reliable information that an individual on one of the grounded airplanes, one of the grounded jets, jetliners, had a backup plan and th

would add an sentence, the task force received various coverage, including neighborhood blogs and ethnic media. that's not anywhere in here. i think it should be. >> ok, one more time. hold on. ms. tidwell? >> aapologize -- -- apologies. >> that's ok. get ready. >> where am i putting it? >> where are you suggest something >> ok, page 5 just before the task force was initially allocated. >> so the top of the page? >> ok. >> ok? go. >> the task force received considerable media coverage -- >> hold on. >> i'm a lawyer. i'm not good at this. i have it. >> the task force received considerable media coverage in various outlets, including mainstream media, newspapers and blogs and ethnic media. yep. that's it. thank you. >> ok? thank you very much. hold on. ms. tidwell? >> i just had a question. the q.r. facebook and twitter media. what q.r. stands for? >> quick response. >> is it ok if i spell that out or is it just? >> yes, you could do a parens. >> is it two words? >> it's two words, yes. >> i'm not young anymore. >> so ms. tidwell? in the paragraph that begins "the task force was initially

which i can cite for you, basically allows police officers to make a pretextural stop based on race, ethnicity and national origin. it is the law of the land according to our supreme court. at times our supreme court gets it wrong, which is why which exhort this congress and this senate to step in and to enact a law when we know that there is a problem that has yet not come to the attention of our supreme court. so with all that i thank you. >> thank you. my time is up. i want to thank all of the witnesses. this has been a very, very important and useful hearing, and we have some areas of disagreement which i think we need to explore further, but i want to thank, particularly mr. gale and chief davis, for your excellent work over the years in law enforcement and thank the chairman and substituting chairman for their tolerance and patience. >> i think you actually called me chairman. that's the protocol. >> i think i need the advice. i have the right to remain silent, don't i? >> yes, you did. unfortunately, i do have to have an appointment so i'm going to ask my questions and then you'll get t

they talked about bridging ethnic differences. learned he's an arizona state graduate. >> i'm a very ardent supporter of the football team. >> and he came to abc 7 to talk about several issues including land mines. and a group is raising money to remove land mines in bethlehem it has to be nonpolitical. you're trying to save lives and trying to serve human beings regardless of their background of ethnic background or religion or whatever, this is something that should be supported. >> and there is a private meeting and look under see it on tv. >> and plan on working at least until age 70? that is the conclusion of a new study from the center for retirement research at boston college. other findings, only 30% of households can afford to retire at age 62678949% can retire at 65 but 86% at 706789 authors say only alternative is save more. but expenses of raising kids, paying for college ask a mortgage make that unlikely. >> this next story will bear truth to that. we've been reporting rents are rising faster than home prices. there i