aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Amerika
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that critics of the war in Iraq and the campaign against terror groups “seem not to have learned history’s lessons,” and he alluded to those in the 1930’s who advocated appeasing Nazi Germany.
Speaking of fascism, this sounds like a brownshirt tactic to me:
NEW YORK, NY August 29, 2006 -An Iraqi architect says he was not allowed to board a Jet Blue flight at JFK because of the Arabic inscription on his t-shirt.
REPORTER: Raed Jarrar was wearing a T-shirt that read We Will Not Be Silent in Arabic and English, when he was approached by security officers. The officers said the Arabic script was upsetting other passengers, and told Jarrar to either turn the shirt inside out or wear something else. Jarrar protested but finally wore a T-shirt provided by a Jet Blue employee.
JARRAR: I grew up and spent all my life living under authoritarian regimes. and i know that these things happen. But I’m shocked that they happened to me here, in the U.S. Especially that I moved from Iraq because of the war that was waged in Iraq under titles like democracy and freedom.
It was a JetBlue plane. I’m guess those who love Jet Blue would not be happy to see this kind of behavior coming from the airline, which says it’s investigating “but that it does take into account the concerns of its passengers.”
