What if they were carrying ass bombs?

To the idiots who keep whining about racial profiling while ignoring Islam's hate crimes against humanity and their bigotry towards non-muslims, pull your head out of your ass and quit being such a libtard PC parrot.

heh heh ass bombs, damn man.

racial profiling is always wrong.

i commend people like farleft for trying to preach to the masses. but the masses are basically stupid.

put it simply,

upon take off a white guy saying "thank you lord jesus, praise his name, god get us safely to our miami destination" would not be given a second look

a swarthy gentleman saying "Allāhu Akbar, let us get to denver safely inshallah" would be pounced on by 20 people saying crap like lets roll.

simple, and being so simple the masses and stupid gothamist commenters woudl still say if theres a grain of truth or suspicion its justified because of 9-11 and its better to be safe than sorry.

is reading the Koran allowed on domestic flights?

A few years back, I saw a dude on the N train going over the manhattan bridge at rush hour, reading the koran and rocking back and forth, praying out loud, obviously being very devout. He was wearing a big ass back pack, and the whole way over the bridge, i'm thinking, "holy shit, is this it?". Then I started to feel guilty, I felt like a dick for thinking like that. Then I was thinking, wait, if I was a muslim, in a country that had suffered a major terrorist attack by a fanatical sect or subgroup of my religion, I probably might have a little situational awareness, and courtesy to my fellow humans and read my Koran (Qur'an?) in a way that doesn't attract undue attention. I know it wasn't one of the proscribed prayer times then (I used to work with a Muslim Pakistani, who was cool as hell, and I knew when he'd be away from his desk, doing his thing), but I didn't know if there is something about having to actually speak the words when reading from the Koran, or praying. Either way, it seemed like on a crowded train maybe you could tone it down a little for the comfort of others (and before anyone starts in, EVERYONE in the car was obviously contemplating the thought, looking at each other with a "...ummm, jeez guy..." kind of look, and a circle had sort of cleared around him). I was also thinking, if I was going to attack a train, I wouldn't be drawing attention to myself like that, so I wasn't too worked up about it. Open question, curious to everyone's thoughts, was that a douchy way for me to think, or was dude being kinda inconsiderate, or grey area?

There was a great episode of 30 Rock where NBC page Kenneth was spoonfeeding Jenna (so she’ll stay fat and keep ratings high) and he pretends the spoon full of food is an airplane coming into a hangar. Then he says “And now an Indian got up to the use the bathroom and air marshall shot him!”

If he has to stop doing that, then the terrorists really do win

Only the King James version.

Some of us so-called "armchair activists" are also in-the-street, organizing the protest, boycotting and divesting, editorial-writing, writing-to-our-congressman, in-your-ugly-conservative-face activists too. The armchair is just one avenue.

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>this you leftist tool for jihad.

Huh? I talk about racial profiling and civil liberties and now I'm a leftist tool for Jihad? Go get a life (and an education).

By the amount of time you spend commenting here, you obviously don't fall under that category.

lol armchair activists

"Sucks, but it's a reality I'm okay with. Even though this is America and all are welcome, there is a specific demographic more prone to assembling weapons than another while on board an aircraft. "

Oh what a load of BS. Can we each just pick a specific crime that's "associated" with a certain demographic and sell out that group's civil rights?

Yeah, I think it's OK for cops to pull over white guys goig hunting in case they're drinking and driving. Yeah, it's too bad for them, but there's a certain group of people in this country who make up most of the instance of hunting accidents, so I'm OK withe police paying extra attention to that. Oh, and BTW since I'm not white I'm double extra OK with that. That's cool.

Ditto for white collar crime. I don't see so many rich black guys doing it, so I'm OK with the feds investigating white CEOs "just in case." Sure, a few black guys do it, but it's mainly older white men. Considering the huge financial crisis, it makes sense to pay extra attention to white guys. Too bad for them, but we've got to think of the country as a whole.

Right on.

So what if he did go to the bathroom to assemble a machine gun with parts hidden in the vanity, or to activate a vest full of explosives? Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin would have stopped them before any harm was done.

It must be great being an armchair activist.

You get so much done!

They need bike lanes on planes-that will solve all of these problems

Blame the hipsters.

What? You have to hate on hipsters in at least one thread for the day.

Next time I hope he just sh*ts his pants or pis*es all over the place then asks for some paper towels to wipe with and hands it back to the attendant.