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240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt
yahoo news ^ | 1-5-09 | yahoo

Posted on 01/06/2009 11:07:57 AM PST by Nachum

NEW YORK (AFP) – An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways following the August 2006 incident at New York's JFK Airport, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awarded; dollars; lawsuit; tshirt
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1 posted on 01/06/2009 11:07:58 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
how much to kids who are tossed out of school for wearing pro-life T-Shirts, hunh? How freaking much?
2 posted on 01/06/2009 11:09:22 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: Nachum

Well Shitake Mushrooms! I am going to go out and buy a shirt like that and wear it and hopefully become $240K richer! LOL


3 posted on 01/06/2009 11:10:48 AM PST by buffyt (Elections have consequences. Being forearmed with the truth is the important thing. Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Nachum
shirt, which had written on it in Arabic: "We will not be silent."

What cryptic message was he trying to send?

4 posted on 01/06/2009 11:11:34 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light!)
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To: Nachum
I will now start wearing arabic language t-shirts.

الاسلام هو شر لا مثيل لها ، ويجب القضاء عليه

5 posted on 01/06/2009 11:14:22 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: Nachum

the guy was entitled to something... maybe ten free flights or some garbage but 240K????


6 posted on 01/06/2009 11:19:44 AM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: buffyt

It doesn’t work unless you change your name and get swarthy. The man was of the protected class.


7 posted on 01/06/2009 11:20:11 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Live your principles. Don't just type them here.)
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To: SolidWood

Go to tshirthell.com and wear some of their shirts to a local church food fair, and see what happens? Not discrediting tshirthell, great site for rock concert attire.


8 posted on 01/06/2009 11:22:02 AM PST by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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To: Nachum

Baktag! Klingon word used as an insult, as in a “piece of baktag.”


9 posted on 01/06/2009 11:25:00 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (Hoping y'all have a Happy and Prosperous New Year)
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To: Edizzl79
If the “local church food fair” was on their own property why couldn't they toss ya or even have you arrested for disturbing the peace?
10 posted on 01/06/2009 11:27:26 AM PST by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: FatherofFive
Now thats funny :) كل ما تبذلونه من العذارى تنتمي إلينا
11 posted on 01/06/2009 11:32:34 AM PST by devnull (In a 5-4 Decision We Trust)
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To: devnull; FatherofFive

You guys slay me...LOL!!! Good luck in your T-shirt ventures!!


12 posted on 01/06/2009 11:47:06 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Nachum
Nearly a quarter million $$$?

If I had been on the jury, his only award would have been a new T-shirt --

with this on it:

(There is no Constitutional protection against being offended...)

13 posted on 01/06/2009 11:49:19 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: Nachum
Great...I'm gonna have a T-Shirt of this made and wear it the next time I fly......


14 posted on 01/06/2009 12:05:41 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: Nachum

This clown is a Code Pink associate. He wanted to provoke an incident.


15 posted on 01/06/2009 12:07:13 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: Nachum

How much is the guy in the Transformers shirt (that displayed a gun on the shirt) going to get?


16 posted on 01/06/2009 12:08:43 PM PST by weegee (Obamunism, just another word for the policies of a NeoCom.)
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To: FatherofFive

ok, i give.........what does it mean?


17 posted on 01/06/2009 12:10:13 PM PST by joe fonebone (The libtard votes in every election, regardless of the candidate.)
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To: Nachum

How much will be given to people who are fired, expelled, arrested or harassed for having pro-life or anti-unnatural slogans on their t-shirts?
Answer - nothing.


18 posted on 01/06/2009 12:16:12 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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To: joe fonebone

Translation from post #5: ‘Islam is evil and must be eliminated’


19 posted on 01/06/2009 12:54:15 PM PST by devnull (In a 5-4 Decision We Trust)
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To: Nachum

I wonder whether the ACLU would have represented him had the T-shirt said “Mohammed sucks camel nuts.”


20 posted on 01/06/2009 2:15:23 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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