Posted on 07/15/2004 1:12:48 PM PDT by big gray tabby
On June 29, 2004, at 12:28 p.m., I flew on Northwest Airlines flight #327 from Detroit to Los Angeles with my husband and our young son. Also on our flight were 14 Middle Eastern men between the ages of approximately 20 and 50 years old. What I experienced during that flight has caused me to question whether the United States of America can realistically uphold the civil liberties of every individual, even non-citizens, and protect its citizens from terrorist threats.
On that Tuesday, our journey began uneventfully. Starting out that morning in Providence, Rhode Island, we went through security screening, flew to Detroit, and passed the time waiting for our connecting flight to Los Angeles by shopping at the airport stores and eating lunch at an airport diner. With no second security check required in Detroit we headed to our gate and waited for the pre-boarding announcement. Standing near us, also waiting to pre-board, was a group of six Middle Eastern men. They were carrying blue passports with Arabic writing. Two men wore tracksuits with Arabic writing across the back. Two carried musical instrument cases - thin, flat, 18 long. One wore a yellow T-shirt and held a McDonald's bag. And the sixth man had a bad leg -- he wore an orthopedic shoe and limped. When the pre-boarding announcement was made, we handed our tickets to the Northwest Airlines agent, and walked down the jetway with the group of men directly behind us.
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Sounds like a good plan.
1. Send groups of "militants" all over the country on planes, but carrying no weapons.
2. Act very suspicious and provoke some "profiling" incidents.
3. Every time the airline reacts and takes you aside for questioning, or the FBI meets you at the terminal, call the ACLU/CAIR lawyers.
4. Sue, sue, sue. Sue every time an airline treats your group with suspicion. Keep suing every single time, and use those millions of dollars to buy weapons and train more terrorists.
5. Gain more allies worldwide and hurt America's reputation by crying on television about the hideous racism of Americans. Include a lot of sound bites about "flying while Arab."
6. As soon as the FBI and the airlines become too intimidated by political correctness and lawsuits to search Arabs or even look twice at them, BOOM another 9/11.
Plausible?
1. The crew will immediately deal with you as if you were a terrorist -- and divert the flight to the nearest airport.
2. Nobody will be permitted to leave their seats -- including the 14 Arabs who were moving back and forth to the lavatories.
3. The 14 Arabs will spend the rest of their lives wondering who the hell this white dude thought he was, trying to hijack their plane.
Wow! That story is terrifying. I don't know if I would have been able to remain as calm as the writer. It appears that they were on a "dry run" of some kind....Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time before something bad happens in the sky again.
Plausible, but extreme... so who knows.
Gotta run... time to pick up the baby. Ciao, all.
That's right, Redneck! I must be middle eastern because I don't report people in turbans to the FBI.
Not to mention the stupid cabin attendants, the other stupid passenger crying in fear and the stupid government law enforcement people who conducted the interrogations in LA. All were stupid because a few innocent men wanted to use the bathroom. Real stupid.
< / sarcasm >
Sorta like a cop's advice: if you're being mugged on a residential street scream "Fire!".
If that's your only contribution to this thread, you're the troll, newbie.
If I were on that flight, I'd jump right in line for the bathroom, like to see them stop me. :-D
(Unless that was for the benefit of those who don't understand it.)
I'm so sorry.
< / sarcasm >
Perhaps I should open the sarcasm first so you can close it.
< sarcasm >
wow
I just recieved this as e-mail. When I forwarded it to my e-mail list I said "read this it will scare the pants off you". Thats a funny expression. ;9)
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