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Old 04-17-2016, 12:50 PM
 
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Though i don't blame the passenger for being scared.

Since this guy probably doesn't speak Arabic he could think of speech as a signal.
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Old 04-17-2016, 12:51 PM
 
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Ok we get it, liberals, it was wrong to take him off the plane, he broke no law. But don't you think he should of thought about where he was. A lot of people are nervous about flying if everything is perfect, let alone if some 20something is talking Arabic next to you. Why can't he be more aware of his surroundings, as a courtesy.

We all, or should, act different depending on who is around us, don't we? I talk different around the guys then I do in a business setting. I drive different when grandma is in the car. I don't talk about the great deal I got on gun powder when I'm in line at security at the airport. What has happened to common sense?
Well okay - what's your thought on people who 'open carry' legally? If it makes others nervous should they be courteous, more 'aware of their surroundings' and not do it?
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Old 04-17-2016, 01:08 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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Because that's the level of civility the US should aspire to, right?

There's nothing civil about flying planes into buildings, chopping off heads, and executing 20 Christians on the beach.
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Old 04-17-2016, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Somewhere extremely awesome
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Ok we get it, liberals, it was wrong to take him off the plane, he broke no law. But don't you think he should of thought about where he was. A lot of people are nervous about flying if everything is perfect, let alone if some 20something is talking Arabic next to you. Why can't he be more aware of his surroundings, as a courtesy.
We all, or should, act different depending on who is around us, don't we? I talk different around the guys then I do in a business setting. I drive different when grandma is in the car. I don't talk about the great deal I got on gun powder when I'm in line at security at the airport. What has happened to common sense?
Speaking Arabic is not suspicious behavior.
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Old 04-17-2016, 02:23 PM
 
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Well okay - what's your thought on people who 'open carry' legally? If it makes others nervous should they be courteous, more 'aware of their surroundings' and not do it?
Lol, you'll never get an answer.
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Old 04-17-2016, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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I suppose the sentiment out there would be, "better safe than sorry."

Iraqi Man Removed From Southwest Flight For Speaking Arabic | ThinkProgress
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A UC Berkley student...
Yeah. I think I'll wait for the rest of the story. I don't trust anything anyone from Berkley says.
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Old 04-17-2016, 08:14 PM
 
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Please.

Very pre-9/11:

Back in the late 80's my HS's spring break ski trip got detained b/c some jackass thought it would be funny to say "hijack". I don't know who heard him, but it ended up a security risk.

The jackass was a 16 year old white Jewish boy about 4'11".

We missed a connecting flight out of O'Hare to Idaho Falls because of it...trip was full of students/parents/faculty. 8 hour trip to Jackson Hole turned in to an 16 hour trip.

Like a 16 year old 4'11" idiot 16 year old was going to hijack the plane?
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Old 04-17-2016, 08:20 PM
 
Location: Athol, Idaho
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Well okay - what's your thought on people who 'open carry' legally? If it makes others nervous should they be courteous, more 'aware of their surroundings' and not do it?
Yes sometimes. There are circumstances where it wouldn't be appropriate, but that is really beside the point and you are comparing apples to oranges.
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Old 04-17-2016, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Japan
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It was a set up, and the airline fell right into it. The student just happens to be a Political Science major at Berkeley, one of the most liberal schools in the country. And he just happened to be phoning "an uncle" from the plane to discuss ISIS, ending the call with Inshallah. On a crowded plane. Yeah, right.
Call him Mahkzoomi the Clock Man. He's an activist who, just two days before the incident, posted this:

https://www.facebook.com/khairy.makh...01?pnref=story

on his facebook. Come on people, we should all know by now to be skeptical.
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Old 04-17-2016, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Ok we get it, liberals, it was wrong to take him off the plane, he broke no law. But don't you think he should of thought about where he was. A lot of people are nervous about flying if everything is perfect, let alone if some 20something is talking Arabic next to you. Why can't he be more aware of his surroundings, as a courtesy.
We all, or should, act different depending on who is around us, don't we? I talk different around the guys then I do in a business setting. I drive different when grandma is in the car. I don't talk about the great deal I got on gun powder when I'm in line at security at the airport. What has happened to common sense?
I'm not a liberal.
But I am against provincial, stupid Americans.
Seem to be so many of them...
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