Yeah, I don't think any of us will ever be able to discuss racial profiling without emotions getting into play. It's just one of those thing where the unfairness inherent to such a practice will always cause those who are only guilty by association to be justifyingly (in my opinion, anyway) irate at being targeted in such a humiliating manner.

Which is why it's probably a good thing that, this time around, it was the courts who opposed the law. No doubt because citizens appealed. But it was never the courts who made the ruling. Not public sentiment.

So, in a way, this was a textbook disinterested analysis of the practice's merit to violation of human rights ratio.

As for the Area 51... I can't imagine many people are surprised.