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Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt
Cigarra writes "PhD student Arijit learned the hard way that in Brave New America you can't mock TSA's Security Theater and go on about your business. According to a recollection in RT.com: 'After being vigorously screened and questioned multiple times, Arijit says he was finally given permission, once more, to board his plane. The pilot of the aircraft, however, had had enough of the whole ordeal and asked the Delta supervisor to relay the message that, due to the discomfort the shirt had caused, neither Arijit nor his wife would be allowed to board the aircraft.' Just how much humiliation is the general American public willing to tolerate in the name of 'security'?"
Your attitude is the precisely reason why we have such fucked up airport security. Instead of profiling people that look and act suspicious, we have to do naked body scanners on everyone otherwise people like you cry "discrimination! lawsuit!".
It's more like the rape victim wore the shirt that said "ZOMG RAPE ME." And then got raped.
How about if someone wore "I AM A FIRESTARTER" at a movie theater? Or how is that different than just plainly shouting "FIRE" at the theater? They're both within free speech rights, but neither explicitly says "there's a fire in this theater right at this moment."
What an asshole art thou. :-)
Fact: I'm paying 10% more (roughly) in income taxes now than i was three years ago, with no rise in income. President's fault!
That is the standard you've set, right? The President's in office, stuff like higher taxes are his fault?