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To: Finny
The man and 12 others traveling with him were allowed to reboard the plan and it left for Houston a little more than two hours later. The entire incident is described as a communication problem with language; among all those travelling companions, none could spoke the same langage and could have served as an interpreter on the plane and nipped the incident in the bud.

Why shouldn't they be allowed back on the plane. They were searched, they were clean, go fly to Houston.

Remember, the only person who says they were Arabic was not on the flight, and he has admitted that he lied about the fact they were wearing "Arabic clothes." He is the ONLY person who says they were Arabic and he was 22 minutes by air away from Atlanta on another inbound flight when it happened!

97 posted on 12/07/2009 12:28:26 AM PST by MindBender26 (Never kick Dems when they're down. Wait 'till they're 1/2 way back up. You get much better leverage!)
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To: MindBender26
Did I question whether or not they should have been allowed back on the plane? And for that matter, where have I insisted that the language had to have been Arabic? It makes sense to me because Islamic American-haters already have a demonstrated reputation for similar disruptions on airplanes, but hey, I'm game -- maybe it was Swahili. Or Balinese. Or Arapaho. Or Samoan.

Whatever it was, it sure as hell wasn't Spanish. Furthermore, anyone remotely familiar with life in America could identify Spanish when they heard it, even if they coudln't understand it; it smells to me like AirTran and TSA had to look far and wide for ONE passenger they could quote as being in doubt; truly, you are gullible on this point for accepting the report as-is.

MOST significantly, any news reporter who accepts and then relays with nary a raised eyebrow claims that a) the woman "believed" it was Spanish and b) dosen't follow-up with the obvious quesiton, "How would someone who only speaks Spanish pose a translation language problem on a plane bound for Houston?" is one crappy news reporter.

And again, your response has failed to explain how the AJC article I linked above offers a credible explanation for such extreme actions taken by the pilot, the crew, and passengers, and only a very gullible person would accept "a simple problem in communications" at an INTERNATIONAL airport as a believable explanation. You apparently believe that out of at least a dozen travelling companions, not one could act as a translator for whatever language this non-English-speaking passenger understood.

It all fails the smell test. You are fixated on disproving folks that are irrelevant at this point, when you should be deeply troubled that such a clearly shaky official story is being passed as "good enough for who it's for" that results in just one more event of doing what the news media does best: creating illusions, this time the illusion that "there was nothing to see here, move along."

And since you mention it, conservatives are fooled all the time to Obama's advantage -- by the same news media that created the illusion that Obama (and Hillary, for that matter), had huge popularity among Americans. If he was so popular, why did ACORN have to gin up votes and engage in voter fraud? I'll tell you why: because if they hadn't, he'd have lost. Democrats have to cheat to win because the reality is that their candidates aren't popular. Vote fraud is what puts liberals in office -- media illusion that liberalism is loved by average Americans fools non-critically-thinking conservatives, and it is accessory to vote fraud's success.

Yes, conservatives WERE and ARE fooled -- by the very same MSM you purport isn't fooling them now by refusing to examine critically this clearly troubling event. And they are apparently again being an accessory to an illusion -- the illusion that this was "nothing, nothing at all." And conservatives LIKE YOU are fooled by it.

98 posted on 12/07/2009 1:10:50 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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