{"id":24070,"date":"2011-11-26T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/the-horrific-crime-of-flying-while-looking-terroristicish.html"},"modified":"2011-11-27T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T07:01:08","slug":"the-horrific-crime-of-flying-while-looking-terroristicish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/the-horrific-crime-of-flying-while-looking-terroristicish.html","title":{"rendered":"The horrific crime of Flying While Looking Terroristicish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a pilot, once again, asks for some Arab-looking passengers to be taken off the plane. They&#39;re rescreened, checked, and returned to the flight &#8212; which is thus delayed by four hours.<\/p>\n<p>First off, kudos to whoever decided to delay the flight while the rescreening was taking place (unless that was the easiest way to deal with the fact these people&#39;s luggage was buried down in the hold).  <\/p>\n<p>Second, reading the commentary here is to enter an extraordinarily scary world where detaining anyone who&#39;s foreign, funny-looking, or in some generic class identified with folks who have committed terror acts in the past should be treated as suspects of the same bent &#8230; and if they don&#39;t like it, they should just go home.  During which the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII is raised as a thing to be emulated.  Insane &#8230; #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.huffpost.com%2Fgen%2F417652%2Fthumbs%2Fs-US-AIRWAYS-large.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/25\/us-airways-questions-stud_n_1113471.html'>U.S. Airways Questions Students Before Flight<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 Students from the United Arab Emirates were taken off a Thanksgiving Day flight from Charlotte to Washington and rescreened by security, causing the flight to be delayed for more tha&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a pilot, once again, asks for some Arab-looking passengers to be taken off the plane. They&#39;re rescreened, checked, and returned to the flight &#8212; which is thus delayed by four hours. First off, kudos to whoever decided to delay the flight while the rescreening was taking place (unless that was the easiest way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/the-horrific-crime-of-flying-while-looking-terroristicish.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The horrific crime of Flying While Looking Terroristicish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,26],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-travel","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45650,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/04\/ooooor-not-seems-my-flight-to.html","url_meta":{"origin":24070,"position":0},"title":"Ooooor not. 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