{"id":49355,"date":"2015-01-24T23:14:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/beccause-we-sure-dont-want-anyone-learning-that-ay-rab-lingo.html"},"modified":"2015-01-24T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T23:14:44","slug":"beccause-we-sure-dont-want-anyone-learning-that-ay-rab-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/beccause-we-sure-dont-want-anyone-learning-that-ay-rab-lingo.html","title":{"rendered":"Beccause we sure don&#039;t want anyone learning that Ay-rab lingo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to see the Philadelpha PD get slapped down for this. Pity the TSA folk who started the whole thing didn&#39;t get similarly disciplined (as far as I can tell).<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it&#39;s just the other day I was reading about how the US military and intelligence are <i>still<\/i> short of folk who know Arab languages. Which is kind of difficult to fix if people freak out when folk are learning Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a small shout-out and &quot;chirp&quot; to Mr. George, who is a <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105636775505253454539\" oid=\"105636775505253454539\">Pomona College<\/a><\/span> now-alum.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>American student arrested for Arabic flash cards in airport after TSA freaked out settles lawsuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/01\/23\/american-student-arrested-for.html?utm_content=buffer9a804&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/UUBVY9-6KbkPtVclxcBlgJ-hc9w0QGa4AjQFSzJNQ973ZovbcZaMkz3yomoPvQ8V5NMUvq3Eg-9w-o8_s83ZhjYbXENZXTkHEIT0E-EEIH1ua3_HARhoxR9H_IAQ4qm_nSn_cas=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/01\/23\/american-student-arrested-for.html?utm_content=buffer9a804&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>American student arrested for Arabic flash cards in airport after TSA freaked out settles lawsuit<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAmerica is safe once again for people who like to study foreign languages and read books on foreign policy in airports.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1uTicUDqZyb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to see the Philadelpha PD get slapped down for this. Pity the TSA folk who started the whole thing didn&#39;t get similarly disciplined (as far as I can tell). Ironically, it&#39;s just the other day I was reading about how the US military and intelligence are still short of folk who know Arab languages. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/beccause-we-sure-dont-want-anyone-learning-that-ay-rab-lingo.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beccause we sure don&#039;t want anyone learning that Ay-rab lingo!&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27126,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/tsa-solves-the-dont-you-know-who-i-am-problem.html","url_meta":{"origin":49355,"position":0},"title":"TSA solves the &quot;Don&#39;t you know who I am?!&quot; problem","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Mar-12 12:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"By letting big business frequent fliers with Amex platinum cards and $100 opt out of most of the security line folderol. 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