Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 23, 2012 @01:01AM from the more-than-3-ounces-of-sarcasm dept.

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'?"

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Re:of course he got booted by acoustix · 2012-08-23 01:46 · Score: 1, Redundant

"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither"

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"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Re:It's even worse by __aaqvdr516 · 2012-08-23 02:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

First amendment rights apply to speech against government. Delta is not part of the government. They can do as they please.