Airports

: We should take stock of what fighting at home means and the stark choices it imposes on us, according to Globe and Mail. Already, experts are advising that, beyond security inside airports preventing bombs on airplanes, security rings should be expanded to include all airport lands. Our unwillingness to materially expand the effort against IS in Syria and Iraq is assuring that the battlefield will be over here, rather than fighting IS over there. In practice that means kilometres from an airport you’d pass an armed checkpoint and have your car and baggage sniffed for explosives before you could park and enter a terminal. It won’t stop at profiled communities. Why would this logic be limited to airports Why not commuter trains and subways Anti-immigrant rhetoric has risen in the United States and Europe: Profiling of residents in Muslim communities and arbitrary security stops of people to check their papers are slowly becoming mainstream ideas. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.