Pontiuth Pilate
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She was wearing a miniskirt! Heaven forbid she dress appropriately!
Flying Imams Part Deux: Now they're suing the PASSENGERS!
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She was wearing a miniskirt! Heaven forbid she dress appropriately!
MjM
Deity
Or if a white man doesn't want to die he shouldn't set foot in a predominantly black neighborhood.
MjM
Deity
What do you think it means?
MjM
Deity
Where the hell did you get that?
plarq
Crazy forever
Verbose
Deity
Yeah, but if this logic is applied to airline services, the one they were flying with should publicly state they will no longer accept Arab-speakers as customers.
The other customers really have to take the airline security on trust, that these people are OK, whatever they look like and whatever they speak, and that the company they're all the customers of has done its job.
Being "tense" and generally full of fear of some things still doesn't justify vigilantism. Someone is in charge of a plane; should it be the captain or the passengers? Considering that, it's the airline which should get the lawsuit for being wankers over this.
You know, I would think that these guys would have a semblence of a point (people are too afraid!) and could be dismissed as immature shock artists. Except for one thing.
They all ordered those seat-belt extenders. IMHO, they crossed the line and went from people pointing out biases to people who scare people. I seriously would have some sympathy for their plight, except for the fact that they all acquired items which any reasonable person could extrapolate to be weapons.
Speaking Arabic? I don't care. Condemning Bush? Have fun! Mingling around the cabin? Go ahead, but don't be asses! Order a seat-belt extender? Err, okay. Everyone getting one? You've crossed the line.
Any reasonable person would see such an event as a potential threat. These guys went from being victims of bigots to legitimate threat. Then they whined about it, whined about being treated as threats when they were acting like threats. Honestly, they made the world a worse place; with intentions of only making it better for themselves. Just like those fricken Imams who went around claiming that people were wearing pig masks to mock Mohammed.
They all ordered those seat-belt extenders. IMHO, they crossed the line and went from people pointing out biases to people who scare people. I seriously would have some sympathy for their plight, except for the fact that they all acquired items which any reasonable person could extrapolate to be weapons.
Speaking Arabic? I don't care. Condemning Bush? Have fun! Mingling around the cabin? Go ahead, but don't be asses! Order a seat-belt extender? Err, okay. Everyone getting one? You've crossed the line.
Any reasonable person would see such an event as a potential threat. These guys went from being victims of bigots to legitimate threat. Then they whined about it, whined about being treated as threats when they were acting like threats. Honestly, they made the world a worse place; with intentions of only making it better for themselves. Just like those fricken Imams who went around claiming that people were wearing pig masks to mock Mohammed.
Verbose
Deity
How come the crew didn't react then? It's still their call, if somehow there's a danger to the flight. They would seem to have found it in order, no?
skadistic
Caomhanach
The crew did react. These guys did everything they could to garner negative attention with hopes of getting kicked off so they could sue everyone. If you walk into a bank thats just been robbed and act like suspicious like you're gonna rob the place expect to be treated like you're about to rob the place. These guys have no one to blame but them selves for their actions and the consiqences those actions fostered.
That's just it, the crew did react. It took a bit (I'm sure) for people to realise that all those extenders were a threat. In addition, I'm not sure the crew could have refused to give the extenders (or else they would be accused of racism!). But once they were all armed, they were obviously a threat that any reasonable person would have dealt with.
The Imams deliberately made the world a worse place. They're trying to get people to think that we're "blaming the victim", when they intentionally bumped themselves up to legitimate threat. Any group of people who are obviously associated, separated, and armed are a threat.
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But people do, thats the point.
And I agree...
Or they could stop another 9/11.
And I'm not bothered by it.
And how the hell would I know if they are singing 'Row your boat'? Or some crazy ass death chant before they get their 72 virgins?
You SHOULDN'T be refrained. It is not advisable.
If they wanted to get to their destination, they know better than to chant in Arabic. They know what happened six years ago.
And unfortunately white people do get tense. I never see black people get tense when a white guy walks through Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Now that is not advisable!
I think shipping them to Guantanamo Bay is going really overboard.
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RedWolf
Deity
Or drive nice cars.
Certainly, there's a problem being a black man getting pulled over for driving a nice car. That's the equivalent of these men talking to each other in Arabic, I think.
Let's not forget these men acquired what is very reasonably deemed weapons.
Let's not forget these men acquired what is very reasonably deemed weapons.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Just don't fly in America, just go to Canada where the threat of terrorism is very little.
Pontiuth Pilate
Republican Jesus!
Wow.
Just wow.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Is it me or does it seem like I'm the only one that thinks suing the passengers is going overboard?
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