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- Wiggles2, on 10/12/2007, -17/+159"In the gate waiting area, people had been talking about these two, who looked really suspicious with their heavy clothing, scruffy, rough, appearance and long hair. Some of the older children, who had seen the terror alert on television, were starting to mutter things like, 'Those two look like they're bombers.' "
Is this what it's come to? - jbus, on 10/12/2007, -30/+122This is getting beyond ridiculous... The public is falling for the government's fear mongering ***** hook, line, and sinker and no doubt some are using it to justify their racist views.
- The_Mule, on 10/12/2007, -10/+85 I, for one, refuse to board any flight that has clean-cut looking, white, mid-Western, Christians on it. You never know who the next Timothy McVeigh is.
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -34/+107Maybe these pussies shouldn't be flying and should just stay at home.
"Oh no there are people in the world who look different then us! 1.2 billion people want to kill me!" - UnknownCzar, on 10/12/2007, -52/+124Funny how the guy saying it's wrong to judge people on how they look is getting modded down, while everyone who says it's okay is getting modded up.
If a liberal place such as digg has sunk this low, then i guess it's time to give up and watch
a bunch of new Hitlers rise up. Oh, and put all the Muslims into concentration camps while we're at it. Can't have them running around and looking like terrorists, frightening some white trash retards.
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OP got modded up while I was typing, all is fine it seems. - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+74Oh hell... here we go. Proof that terrorist don't need to even do anything to achieve results.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -22/+86"Unfortunately, yes. It seems as though even the Europeans are done giving Muslims the benefit of he doubt. Do you blame them?"
Hey, have you looked at the death tolls for civilians in the middle east recently?
Population of EU: 0.5 Bn
Civilians Killed in ALL terrorist attacks anywhere, since 1968: 43,000
Civilians Killed on September 11th: 2,976
Population of Muslims : 1.5 Bn
Civilians Killed in Iraq: 40-45,000
Civilians Killed in Afghanistan: Unknown - similar to Iraq
Civilians Killed in Lebanon: 1,300
Lebanese Civilians held hostage by Israel: 15 + undisclosed
Lebanese Civilians displaced (possibly homes destroyed): 1M
Recent Suicide Terrorists < 500
1.5 Bn Muslims, Quite a few of whom will know Arabic, and only a maximum of 500 terrorists. That's like finding the filings of a needlepoint in a haystack the size of a swimming pool. - DaveMode, on 10/12/2007, -21/+74The airline should have just let whoever wanted to get off the plane go, but keep all their money for the flight and force them to pay full price for a new flight (or allow them to take their business elsewhere). Simple as that.
- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -17/+69People are so freaking paranoid nowadays. Jeez, honestly, if I were in that situation I would've stayed on that plane.
"Screw you guys...I'm goin home" - Eric Cartman - Ennoch, on 10/12/2007, -10/+58Malaga is a chav holiday resort, so it's no suprise that the other fliers were ignorant racists.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -9/+55what next? white women insisting all black men be arrested because they are afraid of being raped? arresting all white males because they might be serial-killers? arresting all jews because they might steal your money? now allowing east-asians to drive? this is why stereotypes and racial profiling are wrong.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -10/+53our fear machine is working quite well i see *excellent*
- McMultiverse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47Part of this is obviously mistrust of the current airline security apparatus, what with all the recent reports of security screeners missing banned items and checklists being spotty. Part of this is obviously knee-jerk racism on the part of the passengers, since overhearing a language that "sounds like Arabic" is enough to get people riled. Scruffy appearance? Baggy clothes? Sounds like me at every check-in during college. Checking you watch constantly? Yeah, real out of place when you're waiting at an airport.
If you look at the passengers from September 11th, you see clean-cut dudes who spoke English and didn't call any attention to themselves until they set their nefarious plot in motion. Their whole strategy was to blend in. - Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -20/+63"Is this what it's come to?"
I don't have time to look through all the FAA regulations to confirm, but I heard years ago after 9/11 that if enough passengers express concern about something on a flight, the airline is required to take action. - halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44One of my friends is, in his words, "very Arabic looking." This is a problem for him because he flies a LOT for his job.
He has, however, found an excellent method of avoiding the security delays associated with being an Arabic man flying in the USA.
He carries a travel Bible in his carry on luggage, and keeps it near the top.
Ever since he started doing this, the process of being searched has been the same.
As soon as they find the Bible, they ask him if he's Christian.
He replies that he is, and starts quoting some Bible verses.
After that, they let him through. The search ends, they bundle up his things and send him on his way. - lebel, on 10/12/2007, -10/+50"I overheard this person speaks Arabic! He must be a terrorist! OMG! That one is speaking French! He must be a terrorist sympathiser! That one is black! He must be a drug dealer or worst!"
Ahem. It is sad that our world is coming to that. - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -11/+45Ilyaq, you're being buried because you basically said:
"well yeah, if you look at the statistics.... But let's imagine spurious circumstances that might possibly negate the accuracy of the statistics by a small percentage. See? That completely justifies my point of view"
When in fact what I was actually discussing was the idea that 1.5 Bn Muslims should not be held accountable for the death of only a few thousand civilians at the hands of only a few hundred terrorists, and that these terrorists are actually damaging Muslim nations and Muslim people MORE than they are damaging the EU or the US, regardless of your political and ideological views. Your argument was logically fallacious, unrelated, US-centric, pro-war and long-winded and finnicky. - Beaver6813, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38Its just plain racism and discrimination. You can't just throw someone off a flight because they are a different colour and/or speak a different language!
Kid - "Look mum hes speaking a funny language"
Dad - "He looks like one of those bloody suicide bombers, im not flying with him" - Peturbed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34whats more dangerous, talking in arabic or starting a mutiny?
- dose, on 10/12/2007, -11/+41Are you scared yet? You should be! And if you're not your a goddamn traitor and turrrist sympathizer!
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -9/+38I heard they turned one of the passengers into a newt...
you hear these things... - unitedkronos, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35I hope that the two men who were thrown off manage to sue the airline company and everybody who objected on that airplane.
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Sensationalist news reporting is doing a better direct job than the terrorists (although I guess it is indirectly attributable to them).
- behemothaur, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32It's all ***** *****. The human race should be ashamed of itself for not dismissing the fearmongering for what it is.
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28this is the kind of crap that gets sikh gas station employees killed and black men dragged down dirt roads. sorry to keep commenting on this story, but it is just so disgusting.
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Wouldn't it be great if these guys turned out to be Rabbis who were speaking Hebrew?
Better yet, wouldn't be great if a bunch of Rabbis dressed in turbans and other stereotypical "Islamic" clothing and started talking in Hebrew in front of the other travelers?
I can only imagine the news coverage when a bunch of ignorant, terrified Americans or Brits get a bunch of Rabbis thrown off a plane on suspicion of them being "terrorists."
Better yet, have the conversations be about the book of Genesis, and if it's literal or allegory. It would make great press if the Rabbis could say that's what they were discussing just before being tossed off the plane by over zealous security staff. - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26google -> define:terrorist
A radical who *employs terror as a political weapon*; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities
Think upon that very, very carefully.
then take a look at this.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm - yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Let's face it; this is how terrorism works, and it's working very well for the terrorists because people ARE terrified!
- miakeru, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25BREAKING NEWS: Terrorists successfully boarded, hijacked, and blew up British airliner today after being waived through security checkpoints after claiming to be Christians and quoting bible verses during a routine inspection. Early reports speculate that a jackass on popular tech. news site Digg tipped them off to the new strategy.
- dogfood, on 10/12/2007, -10/+31Hawk2007: The FAA has no jurisdiction over foreign air carriers, and as far as I'm aware, the CAA (British equivalent of the FAA) also does not have any rule regulating having passengers removed because other passengers don't like them. The FAA never had such a rule written down in the FARs (Federal Aviation Regulations). The FARs that regulated airport security, which are now under the jurisdiction of the TSA (formerly FAR part 77 now 49 CFR part 1542), also have nothing in writing that any passenger (or group of passengers) can legally have another passenger removed because they don't want him/her flying with them. The idea that some people have a legal right to have others removed from an airplane "just because that guy kinda looks like a terrorist I saw on TV" is ridiculous and inacurrate. It is the airlines who make the decision to ask passengers to leave, and they get sued on a regular basis because of it. I would assume you got this info from Fox News?
- HanSolo69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22There is fear out there, and it needs mongering. Or do you hate working American families?
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Well, such an airline would be separate, but I'm sure it would also be equal.
/Sarcastic American History reference - 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24I modded you up but I couldn't help but notice a touch of irony :p
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20So anyway - it's a comic now:
http://www.richgentlemenhide.com/comic/2006/08/21/post-105 - halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26"coming" to that?
Sorry, it's been there for a long time. It's just hitting the news more often, and people are more likely to get their racism "validated" if the subject of said racism is Muslim or Arabic. - garg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Yes... Arabs are Asians. Please look at a map.
- cocoamix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I can't believe that family posed for a picture for the article.
What, they are PROUD of the fact that they acted like scared, ignorant children? - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19@ilyag - I called everyone a civillian, including everyone ever killed in a terrorist attack. Undoubtably some weren't. Still, they're all people, and all lives, and the main point of the statistics, regardless of the underlying motives behind the killing, is the same. It's easier to find a needle in a haystack.
- garg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Ah.. this is interesting.
I just happen to be from a Muslim family, I look a bit Arab (though I'm not), and I'm an American. So when I fly abroad I'll have to stay out of the sun, carry a Bible, and have a Canadian Sticker on my Luggage. - halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -10/+23Do you mind if I put that quote on a bumper sticker??
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -15/+27If anyone, anywhere, feels uncomfortable doing anything with their family, they should act as these people did - deplane quietly without intentionally offending anyone - and without apology. No need to label or judge them, epsecially if you werent there.
- IsPoLiN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19@Discourses
I'd get on the plane with all the middle eastern looking gentlemen ofcourse. The terrorists don't seem to be interested in blowing THEM up. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15People should take a deep breath and relax. At this rate, transport companies like airlines will soon have to make Muslim only airlines.
Actually it might be a good business plan - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17When do we get black and white lines at the bus stops, black and white seating only?
This worked well in South Africa. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Wait, so 'Islam' doesn't deserve to be capitalized, but 'Muslim' does?
What are you, an idiot? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Well, of course! Don't you know that black men are all rapists? I saw it on the news and in the newspapers! I'm not sitting next to a man who looks just like that one rapist, speaking that same language that that one rapist spoke! I refuse to let this bus move until these men are moved to the back of the bus! If this bus takes off with this darkie right next to me, I will scream bloody murder that the bus industry is not doing enough to protect its passengers, and believe me, the media will pick up on THAT.
What's that? You think I'm being a racist *****? Well, you're just a liberal moonbat who likes to complain: if I didn't do this to protect myself and got raped, you'd just bitch about lax bus security.
/fearful retard - gpd209, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11If I were in charge, this is what would have happened. Those who walked off or refused to board would be forced to wait till the next day (at the earliest) to catch another flight--overnight accomodations at their own expense. I would have asked the two gentlemen off the plane and thoroughly checked their baggage and persons. I would have asked everybody else to exit the plane to carefully search the cabin. Once the men and the plane were cleared (as actually happened), the two men would be let back on the plane first. Anybody who wished to join them would be allowed to return. Those who no longer wanted to take that flight would be welcome to sit at the airport indefinitely waiting for an open seat on a subsequent flight.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15@discourses
Would it matter? If the plane contains only a single ethnic group, the chances of it being hijacked is close to nil. - kaemaril, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally.
"For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense."
My god, the world has come to something when I find myself in complete agreement with a Tory. I feel dirty just saying it, but he's absolutely right. - yeastbeast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12What is this— Salem Airlines, Flight 1692?
"Of course, I'm not *sure* they're witches, but in these troubled times, it's better safe than sorry. Burn them!" -
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