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[batyatoon]

Can I just take a moment to froth in rage here?

"Why, Batya," you ask, "what has you so enraged?"

This.

I just. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING.



Edited to add: here's Raed Jarrar's own account of what happened. Thanks, madfilkentist.

Comments

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

The leaders are partially to blame, for creating and encouraging the atmosphere of Fear Of Everything. For creating and encouraging a general policy of Violating Freedoms Is Okay When You're Scared.

The people who buy into it are also partially to blame. Particularly the idiots in the airport who "complained". (About WHAT? Is a bomber seriously dumb enough to advertise it beforehand?)

The idiots in security who acted as they did on the complaint also are partially to blame, for taking the general policies noted above and applying them further. It's security and law enforcement's job not only to respond to possible threats, but to determine when there is no threat. There was no threat and no law broken, and what they should have done, after speaking to the man, was to go back to the complainers and say "ma'am, the gentleman poses no threat and is not breaking any law or rule." And if the idiots who complained weren't satisfied, well, they could stay off the damn plane.

Whuf.

I find myself using this icon more and more lately...

[xochitl42.livejournal.com]

Dude. It took me a moment, but I figured out the icon. Brilliant.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. When I was googling for images, I actually had in mind for 'foxtrot' something like one of those pictures of footsteps to teach people how to do different dances. But when an overwhelming number of Amend's comic strips came up, I went "oh YEAH!" :)

[batyatoon]

Seconding the icon-love.
patrickat has a great WTF variant of his own, but I can't find it.

[patrickat.livejournal.com]

You mean this one?

[batyatoon]

That's the one! :D

[batyatoon]

[heads up: found it.]

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

I just figured the icon out myself... brilliant!