The Secret Drug Profile
by
Matt Giwer (c) 1994 <5/24>

      Some decades ago in Germany there was an organization that made an issue of determining who was Aryan and who was subhuman. They had a long list of physical factors to make this determination. They were able to determine that an undesirable person was in fact a non-Aryan.
      They were infallible in their use of this technique. It had been developed to a fine art over the decades. It justified the determination regardless of any external factors save party connections.
      Today we do not think much of the Nazi system of measuring the size and shape of the skull, length of the jaw and slope of the forehead. We have this sneaking suspicion that they had so many characteristics they could pick and choose any they want to make their case. We are certain it was all up to the judgement of the "expert" making the determination as to which characteristics were important.
      At least they made their "profile" public.
      Today we have the police and our federal government using a secret profile that has defied all court attempts to have it released. The use of the profile is left in the hands of experts. Looking at the wide variation of the people to whom it has been applied it appears the secret profile must contain characteristics such as breathing and not being brain dead.
      This profile is for drug traffickers. It has been used against seedy looking Columbians speaking no English with one way tickets. It has been used against multi-millionaires such as John DeLorean. It has been used against teenagers and businessmen. It has been used against people with no luggage and too much luggage. It is difficult to imagine a group that has not been found non-Aryan.
      Of course our police are expert in this system and are not prey to the errors of personal judgement. In fact they even use of numeric rating system for each characteristic. If there are enough points in the secret system then there is no blame to the "drug security forces" if it results in the death of a multi-millionaire whose source of wealth is well known. After all his wife was spending a lot of $100 bills.
      We are not as "honest" as the Nazis. We keep our profile a secret. It does not really matter because we would never succumb to the self serving misuse of the Nazis.
      Of course we must ask if we are any better.