[Tzimisce]

>What were the serious security concerns of American Airlines after the police completely cleared him?<

I have to trust that there was some reason authorities had.

>The reason AA still didn't let him on the plane was because it would make the other passengers feel uncomfortable.<

So do you agree with the "flying Imams"? Those six guys who got on the plane last Nov and began praising Osama bin Ladin openly, asked for seat belt extensions when they didn't need them and then changed to seats near the emergency exits? I mean, these Imams only crime was making people uncomfortable too. Should they have been allowed to stay on the plane?

>"That is exactly the parallel with the Woolworth's photo: these guys sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter and were refused service because it would make the white customers uncomfortable. You asked "what happened to the right to refuse service." These guys, along with Rosa Parks and a lot of other brave black and white Americans, helped bring about a little thing called the Civil Rights Act, which ensures that no one can be refused service at a public accommodation on account of race or national origin. That's what AA was doing, and a jury rightly found it guilty."<

Yeah that's it, it's all a racial thing. In the year 2007 we have no reason to be concerned about the people who come in to this country, who gets on planes, etc. We're just a racist nation filled with unaccepting white people who hate everyone who looks and thinks different from them.

And that itself isn't a racial slur, because you can't prejudge white people right? We know that racism is endemic only to those with pale skin.

Maybe I should put on some bed sheets and go to a civil rights rally. After all, I never said I was a member of the KKK.

[drjimmy]

>What were the serious security concerns of American Airlines after the police completely cleared him?<
I have to trust that there was some reason authorities had.

The "authorities"--the State Police--determined that this guy was not in any way a security concern. And American Airlines itself says it still didn't let him on the plane not because of any security concerns, but because he would make the other passengers "uncomfortable." Bringing up the flying Imams is a non-sequitor. This guy didn't do anything that made him suspicious, he just "looked" suspicious, apparently by having been born in Portugal and happening to be seated next to two other people who were born in Israel. If you want to ally yourself with the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964--guys like Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd--go right ahead. No wonder you're so sensitive about being considered racist.