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Man kicked off American Airlines plane after rage over 'Merry Christmas' greeting
syracuse.com ^

Posted on 12/26/2014 8:42:29 AM PST by BenLurkin

When a gate agent greeting everyone the same way told him "Merry Christmas", he responded "You shouldn't say that because not everyone celebrates Christmas."

"Well, what should I say then?" the agent reportedly replied.

"Don't say, 'Merry Christmas!'" the man retorted, now shouting, before walking past her onto the plane.

After a flight attendant greeted the unidentified man with the same Yuletide cheer, he snapped and began lecturing the staff about why they shouldn't say "Merry Christmas." The crew unsuccessfully tried calming him down before he was escorted off the plane.

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KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; americanairlines; merrychristmas
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To: BenLurkin

American Airlines wasn’t defending Christmas.

The guy was kicked off the plane for causing a disturbance, not because he didn’t like Christmas.

The same thing would have happened if he’d gotten mad over “Good Morning”.


21 posted on 12/26/2014 9:06:16 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who says Merry X-mas??


22 posted on 12/26/2014 9:07:36 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: left that other site

White journalists were the last major group to celebrate KWANZA - they celebrated every year with major features in newspapers around the country....

Oh, and idiot school teachers who’s brains were fried on PC stupid.... they did KWANZA celebrations too.


23 posted on 12/26/2014 9:07:38 AM PST by GOPJ (White people in black neighborhoods should expect to be the victims of black crime.- Flaherty)
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To: Pontiac

Try saying, “Rejoice together with me, inasmuch as God took upon Himself to enter into human flesh to redeem us from sin, death and the grave, and that He has accomplished this purpose through the incarnation, birth, innocent suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus.” If “merry Christmas” is offensive to the world, just think what we can do with the long hand version!


24 posted on 12/26/2014 9:10:01 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: smoothsailing

Oh my...I was indeed mistaken.

I guess jerks come in all shapes and colors!

A little Jewish boy (to whom I teach piano and voice) shared this Sponge Bob song with me.

It’s called:

DON’T BE A JERK, IT’S CHRISTMAS!

Bring joy to the world; it’s the thing to do
But the world does not revolve around you
Don’t be a jerk
It’s Christmas

There’s a sign above the line that says “Express”
That means ten items or less
Don’t be a jerk (don’t be a jerk)
It’s Christmas

Be nice to babies and animals, old folks too
Cuz that’s how you’d like them to treat you
Use turn signals, don’t screen my calls
Don’t you wreck my house when you deck the halls

Spit your gum where it won’t wind up on my shoe
Squeeze toothpaste from the bottom of the tube.
Don’t be a jerk (don’t be a jerk)
It’s Christmas

It’s Christmas!

When others are talking never interrupt
Don’t put people down or leave the toilet seat up
It’s the time for family and holly and turkey
‘Tis the season to be jolly not jerky (jolly not jerky)

Don’t dig in the cereal box for goodness sakes
Take the prize and leave me nothing but flakes
Don’t be a jerk (don’t be a jerk)
It’s Christmas

Santa brought nearly every gift on your list
Why whine about the one that he missed?
Don’t be a jerk (don’t be a jerk)
It’s Christmas

It’s Christmas!

Don’t be a jerk (don’t be a jerk)
It’s Christmas
Don’t be a jerk (don’t be a jerk)
It’s Christmas


25 posted on 12/26/2014 9:11:04 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Old Sarge

Yesterday me and my son-in-law broke from the family gettogether to run up to the 24/7 (the ONLY retail gas station for 40 miles or so) so he could get a pack of smokes.

Normal Christmas day ho=hum in fly-over country till we get to the counter to pay where a young black may is getting very loud and starts yelling at the clerk about how his card had been declined and re was being refused service because he was black. (!!)

Obviously this young man had no idea where he was.

About 15 seconds of this and my son-in-law blatantly tells him that the fact that he has no money in his account has everything to do with him being denied service and him being black had only been mentioned by himself.

With that he spun around, seen my son-in-law was open carrying, pops open his jacket and brandishes his own pistol inside his jacket, asked what he is gonna do about it start shooting? ..as I take 3 steps to the right, drop to one knee, uncover my piece and quickly pray that I really dont want to kill anyone on Christmas day. This guy is pinned against the counter between us, the clerk is $hitting herself, and this guy is trying to envision the rest of his day without bullet holes in his carcass, having been trapped 2:1 in very very white mid-western Kansas......He turned white as a ghost, broke and ran out the door, but not before me and my son-in-law both wished him a Merry Christmas on his way out the door.

The rest of my holiday vacation can be uneventful. I still have adrenalin pumping.


26 posted on 12/26/2014 9:14:46 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: GOPJ

Indeed.

It’s neither “African” nor “American”.

It was invented by a 60’s Black-Panther-Type radical who hated Whites, Americans, and Christmas.

And women. He was convicted of TORTURING his secretary with a soldering iron.

And now, old white geezer liberals continue in the farce.

You can’t make this stuff up.


27 posted on 12/26/2014 9:16:08 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
“Rejoice together with me, inasmuch as God took upon Himself
to enter into human flesh to redeem us from sin, death and the grave,
and that He has accomplished this purpose through the incarnation,
birth, innocent suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus.”

28 posted on 12/26/2014 9:18:23 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Delta 21

wow...


29 posted on 12/26/2014 9:18:36 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: BenLurkin
Airline done right in kicking him off the plane.

However, motivated by Christmas Spirit, I feel they would have done better by kicking him out after they had reached 2,500 feet.

Over a mosque.

30 posted on 12/26/2014 9:20:35 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like a case of aggressive liberalism lubricated with a stop at the airport lounge.


31 posted on 12/26/2014 9:22:58 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: left that other site

..thats pretty much all I can say too.


32 posted on 12/26/2014 9:24:34 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve told people that I don’t say Merry Christmas for them, I say it for me. Their don’t know how to respond.


33 posted on 12/26/2014 9:25:20 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: BenLurkin

Busted the Yule log off in his ***!


34 posted on 12/26/2014 9:27:30 AM PST by mylife
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To: left that other site
It’s neither “African” nor “American”. It was invented by a 60’s Black-Panther-Type radical who hated Whites, Americans, and Christmas. And women. He was convicted of TORTURING his secretary with a soldering iron. And now, old white geezer liberals continue in the farce. You can’t make this stuff up.

You're right - you can't make this stuff up.

It's white liberal elites begging to be 'put in their place' - willing to buy into anything stupid enough to humiliate them... Not that liberal elites are kinky stupid... or creepy and yucky or gullible ....or self destructive and hateful or anything...

Nice to see black communities caught on to the scam before white liberal elites. That's comforting.

35 posted on 12/26/2014 9:31:00 AM PST by GOPJ (White people in black neighborhoods should expect to be the victims of black crime.- Flaherty)
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To: left that other site

My Family is inter religious.
Many have the Star of David with a Shamrock in the center tattooed.

Yeah it’s weird but we never quibble about this sort of stuff.


36 posted on 12/26/2014 9:36:39 AM PST by mylife
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To: BenLurkin

He could have merely responded with “Merry Saturnalia” or “Hail to Satan” or Happy Soltice or whatever ... :-) ...

Of course, if he went around saying “Hail to Satan” ... it might be other people being arrested, when they get upset with him ... LOL ...


37 posted on 12/26/2014 9:37:22 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: mylife

Amen. Me Too.

Though not as a tattoo...as a pendant! LOL!

40 years a biker and rock musician, and NO INK. You would think i was some kind of rebel or something. hahaha


38 posted on 12/26/2014 9:39:35 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Whats kwanzaa when it’s at home ?


39 posted on 12/26/2014 9:39:41 AM PST by jabbermog (Fight Climate Change - Stop Bacteria Farting !)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Their first mistake was not waiting until they took off to throw him off the plane.


40 posted on 12/26/2014 9:40:13 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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