Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
What’s Next, Getting Kicked Off The Plane Because Someone Doesn’t Like Your Nail Polish or Tattoos?
An architect of Iraqi descent has said he was forced to remove a T-shirt that bore the words “We will not be silent” before boarding a flight at New York.
What, he was going to take down the plane with his shirt? C’mon, first it’s tweezers, then shampoo, and now it’s t-shirts? He’d already cleared security, so if people are afraid, they need work on those fears themselves. I understand being curious about what it said, although it was in both English *and* Arabic, but to want him kicked off the plane is so very wrong. The government has us fearing everything, and that seems to be just what they want. I think everyone needs to read Subject: On the implausibility of the explosives plot and see if you really think you’re being protected at the airport.
Apparently, I’m safe, I don’t wear nail polish, don’t have any tattoos and can’t read a word (can you say word or do you say characters or something?) of Arabic.
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Hmph. I’d like a “We will not be silent” shirt, with pink triangles and rainbow flags and interlocking female symbols and wedding rings and a pic of two women holding hands, one pregnant, and....I can’t think of anyone else. Our persecuted group, too, will not be silent.
Now that I have my political/social/pissed off statement out of the way, I can get back to work!
on 08/31 at 05:52 AM -
I think you should be kicked off the plane specifically for not having tattoos and not wearing nail polish. I find that highly suspicious.
Helly on 08/31 at 08:36 AM -
Um-hm, words made up of letters, pretty much the same as English, except that only long vowels are written and short vowels you just have to guess.
Nancy on 08/31 at 03:00 PM
