frightening flight experience

[OnyxCougar]

Originally Posted by jane_says

I won't get deeply into the politics of it all, but would like to add, in case anyone missed it, that this woman used Anne Coulter as a cite in this article. The whole thing smells like a UL (and yeah, I'm aware it actually took place). I'm just sayin'. If there were air marshalls all over the plane, why did they need another passenger to write descriptions? If the airline or anyone else thought they were so F-ing dangerous, why weren't they questioned BEFORE they flight took off? The guy wouldn't return her friendly smile? Wahhh. Muslim men would consider smiling at a woman outside their own family way too intimate. Interesting to note that eating at McDonald's and needing orthopedic shoes should send up a red flag.

And if congregating around the bathroom was a crime, women all over the world would be in lockup for good. This whole thing rang of self-important, whiny, smarmy white-chick prejudice to me. NOTHING happened to the Precious Princess, and she still has to yodel about it.

You can take it as "self-important, whiny, smarmy white-chick prejudice" if you want to, (and I'm sure many do) or you can take it as a wake up call. Even if nothing happened on this flight, and 17 Syrians just happened to know each other but didn't board as a group, and have a need to urinate and/or defecate more than twice on a short flight, and "hang out" near bathrooms, and not have seats booked together, and have a cover story that was never checked up on or followed up, that doesn't mean that we should be suspicious about it, right? It doesn't mean that they were doing a "dry run" or anything. Just coincidence. Yeah. That's it. Coincidence.

Most of the attacks on American interests overseas were perpetrated by "Middle Eastern" men, so maybe, just maybe, we should not worry so much about "political correctness" and get serious about securing our nation. Yes, that means we're going to lose some personal freedoms. Yes, that means we'll spend more for a plane ticket and wait in longer lines. I'd rather pay $300 more for an airline ticket and wait for 2 hours to get through security and eat with plastic forks at the $50 for a bagel restaurant AND BE SAFE, rather than bow to the "politically correct" viewpoint and security miss something because "we can't screen more than 2 people of this type", and die for some nut's religious views.

You know what? If "racial profiling" applied to white folks, we'd have a serious problem. "We can't screen more than 2 white people per plane." How about I scream discrimination?

Why is it discrimination when it's Middle Easterners but not when its whites?


Edit to add: You know what? The terrorists discriminate, too. Anyone not them. There could be Islamists on the plane they blow up. How do they know? They don't care. Why should we?