@LethalJizzle - No that's blaming the victim. It's not his fault that the staffon that airline are prejudiced against a language. He should be able to get on a plane with arabic tattooed on his head if he wants to. Arabic is read by the vast majority of muslims so anything up to 1.5 billion people. You can not demonise a language it's ludicrous. That number is not even including the arab christians, jews, athiests, ba'hais etc...
Goodman wouldn't last 10 minutes in any country where fundamental islamic rulers have been oppressing women for thousands of years. I don't believe this tee shirt story for one second.
What a silly question. What would I do? I'd do what I normally do on any flight. Try to sleep. Read when I can't sleep. What does it matter? What would you do? Would you be so afraid that you'd cancel your flight? Or maybe you'd tackle him to the floor and place him under citizen's arrest? He's just some guy with a shirt. How likely do you think it would be that an actual terrorist would wear a provocative shirt? Don't be such a wimp.
@BigMikeMcBastard I'm a wimp? Name calling says more about the speaker, and easy to do when you are removed from the situation. It's not a silly question and you certainly are not gonna sit there reading. The fact is after that crew was briefed two days after a terrorist attempt on a JFK bound plane there was no way that JFK based plane was gonna take off without a few phone calls and questions. Not for a minute do I buy her portrait of this guy as some clueless Joe Anybody. She's a sneak.
@rscmrcmd Considering you want to deprive someone of their ability to travel without being harassed I'm not all that concerned with what my calling you a wimp might say about me. Every single time I've flown a plane I've been flying with people who were far more likely than this guy to carry out a terrorist attack, and every time I couldn't have given two shits. Just because you feel uncomfortable doesn't give you the right to have someone else accosted by security staff to assuage your fears.
@BigMikeMcBastard How do you know your fellow passengers are "far more likely than this guy to carry out a terrorist attempt'? But then again you don't know me from Adam either and you have me tackling him "to the floor" and placing him "under citizen's arrest". (Hardly a wimpy thing to do by the way and very likely to land me in jail.) I was talking about savvy New York political people and lawyers using a state of panic around air travel to make a buck. That's what I think. Happy New Year.
@rscmrcmd So far 100% of all terrorist attacks attempted or successfully carried out were done by people NOT wearing provocative shirts with Arabic script on them.
Anyway, discarding one of the important documents upon which the US is based is alright I guess, just don't be one of those conservatives who then thumps their chest about "governing from the Constitution" or the other sorts of nonsense that people like Glenn Beck or Christine O'Donnell blather on about. Just don't be a hypocrite.
@BigMikeMcBastard How do you know what they were wearing? Also, if you think a tee shirt with Arabic script is "provocative" then you can understand how someone sitting on a plane about to take off at JFK two days after a terrorist attempt was thwarted on a JFK bound plane 40,000 feet over the ocean would be a little nervous. Perhaps you should take your own advice about hypocrisy. You make a lot of assumptions but just FYI, I'd never watch Glenn Beck.
@rscmrcmd You can read about what these people wore and see pictures of them on the Internet.
It's provocative in that there's a YouTube video I'm commenting on about it. I'd be indifferent to it, as I'm indifferent to most shirts with things written on them.
I wouldn't think anything of it. I could die at any time. I could die before I finish writing this sentence. No sense in worrying about it. Maybe that's just the soldier part of me talking, though.
@BigMikeMcBastard Right now I am sitting, stranded in DFW airport in the company of people unknown to me. Glenn Beck isn't among us. A plane in Jackson Hole went off the runway. Everyone is commenting about it, nervously. What is the chance this will happen to their flight? Almost no chance. But here is a general atavistic fear about being off terra firma. You may be the an anomaly. In any case we don't look to scare our fellow citizens and create panic with the hope of making money.
Zzzzzzz......"oh, I'm sorry Amy, I fell asleep when you started in with your usual trite, banal and meaningless leftist drivel. I was wondering though, what drifter's corpse did you steal this ill-fitting outfit from and, PLEASE could you point me to the bridge your homeless wino hairdresser lives under? thanks!"
She doesn't tell us this guy is an anti Iraq war political blogger, not your average, oblivious Joe. He's walking through JFK with that Tshirt hoping passengers would see him and complain. It was two days after a terrorist attempt on a plane was thwarted over the Atlantic. People were sitting there reading newpapers with the Shoe Bomber headline or watching the coverage on airport CNN. Then he walks by. THE VERY NEXT DAY the ACLU filed a lawsuit. She's a disgusting sneak.
@rscmrcmd None of that changes the fact that someone was forbidden from flying with a shirt depicting Arabic script on it being visible. The airline was wrong to discriminate against him for something as stupid as that, and he had every right to go to the ACLU about it.
@BigMikeMcBastard This is just another day at the office for Amy Goodman and her cronies. Two days after the shoe bomber was "silenced" on a plane the airport is on high alert, passengers are sitting there with "Shoe Bomber On Plane" headlines blaring at them, flight crews have just read emails from their company and union, they see the tee shirt. The Crew calls the TSA, he's questioned, makes a phone call and waits for the pay check. She's only pissed off she didn't get any "credit", (money).
@BigMikeMcBastard This is not about "First Amendment Rights". This was an opportunity for some experts to make money. Those passengers, flight attendants and pilots (all workers) are sitting on a plane reading about a terrorist attempt that was thwarted (silenced) two days before. He walks on with a tee shirt that says, "We will not be silenced". If he comes to sit next to you, with this story fresh in your mind, what would you do? Do respond with abstractions about "Rights". What would you do?
@rscmrcmd So you're saying that because some people MIGHT have been afraid he shouldn't have been allowed to fly? He lost his rights by default? It's worth noting that there were no complaints received by the airline regarding this guy and his shirt, so if people were dramatically reading their papers about the shoe bomber and then looking up to see a scary brown guy with spooky language on his shirt they kept it to themselves.
This is a First Amendment issue. There's nothing abstract about it.
@BigMikeMcBastard Isn't it possible one of the pilots or flight attendants or TSA people or passengers could have been "brown"? How do we know what they e-mailed the Airline? And what makes you so sure these are all white people who find a "brown guy" "scary" and who think Arabic a "spooky language"? Again, you are sitting in an airplane at JFK two days after a terrorist attempt at bombing a JFK bound plane on an aircraft 40,000 ft over the Atlantic. Our hero sits next to you. What do you do?
In 25 years, Amy Goodman will be alone in a nursing home, with nobody to visit her, blaming Jewish Republicans for the Iraqi civil war of 2012, in which millions of Iraqis killed each other.
amy goodman,dr finkelstein,george galloway, should be the examples to all human race,and the world will be arrogant free,peace and democracy will provail
You are not using your ears, I am. I listen to every word imams and muslim dictators say. It is clear that the ultimate islamic goal is global domination, therefor, who cares what your average muslim thinks? It's not they who pave the way for islam. As for your "bigotry analysis", I frankly do not care if I come across that way. You may choose to be an islam apologist,. That is your chose. With regard to islam, I choose not to use political correctness or appeasement like you, the fearful one.
Amy Goodman can hardly be considered "the voice of reason." She is an extreme leftist - not my cup of tea. It is not my responsibility to "reason" with muslims. I oppose them, and therefore it is quite all right with me if they do not get along with each other. The day will come when you will understand what islam is all about and what is muslim's final goal. It is obvious you are an American. Had you been British, you would have understood their strategy already. The joke will be on you!
Sad that a young man (not hating on him) speaks about Rihanna's new song and it gets 487,139 hits within a week or two. This very good story by Amy Goodman gets 8,837 hits within 4 years. It's SAD but true. Nice post
Amy Goodman obviously does not realise that she considered an "infidel" and an "ape or "pig" because she is Jewish by the very people she is defending.
@msmcis I wouldn't defend the Koran or any of the religious fairy tales, but just like the Bible it can be interpreted in a number of ways - Muslims should be judged on their actions just like christians are.
@urbanguerrilla64 "Muslims should be judged on their actions just like christians are." That is precisely what I am judging muslims by - their actions - terrorism, jihad, imposed sharia laws, imposed islamic indoctrination and the stance of female inferiority.
@urbanguerrilla64 With a name such as the one you have chosen, it is no wonder you are incapable of determining what is terrorism and what is not. The vast majority of muslims are in favour of sharia law, jihad, terrorism, and the treatment of women as second class citizens - including muslim women themselves.
@msmcis with a comment such as your last one, no wonder you are incapable of understanding what urbanguerrilla64 has tried to get into your xenophobic sorry excuse of a brain.
@Defsolid Are def or deaf? You are solidly deaf! Are you into defending muslims as well? That's called appeasement. Xenophobes are those who fear islam so much that they have now chosen to defend it. Unless of course you are muslim yourself, in which case you have been brainwashed into believing you are superior.
@msmcis lol your comeback is lacking for the simple reason that we're typing here not talking, you know we're not using our ears. Ok so you're not a xenophobe, but you're certainly a bigot, why? i'll explain it to you as simply as i can, taking a group of people and generalizing by saying they all support terrorism...etc either means that you have some super human powers that gives you the knowledge about every single individual muslim or you're just making this up to suit your bigoted mindset.
@Defsolid You are not using your ears, I am. I listen to every word imams and muslim dictators say. It is clear that the ultimate islamic goal is global domination, therefor, who cares what your average muslim thinks? It's not they who pave the way for islam. As for your "bigotry analysis", I frankly do not care if I come across that way. You may choose to be an islam apologist. That is your chose. With regard to islam, I choose not to use political correctness or appeasement, as you do.
@msmcis you're not coming across as a bigot, you are a bigot and as far as you listening to imams, you sure as heck aren't listening to all of them, that is if you know arabic which i doubt. My guess is that you get your info from bigots who don't even know arabic themselves. If Amy Goodman is an extreme leftist from your point of view then you must be an extreme right winger who listens to yahoo evangelists and co.
@Defsolid Oh, so you are muslim yourself. I can see the steam blowing out of your ears already. Before you know it, you'll be blowing up (no pun intended of course.) It is no wonder why you are wasting your time trying to convince me that muslims are all innocent little lambs. Just remember one thing, I know you consider all non-muslims "infidels", which actually amounts to nothing. You will not be scoring any pints hear. I am a proud 'infidel" and a "bigot" just for you.
@msmcis your dodging strategy is lacking too. You've just confirmed what i was guessing in my last comment. And just to humour your babbling, there's nowhere in what i typed before a mention of "muslims are all angels" or "non-muslims are all infidel", only somebody like you would generalize about people he's ignorant about, what you fail to understand is an obvious fact (no offense), starting from yourself and the closest people to you, we are all the same and we are also individuals.
@Defsolid Interesting to know that you automatically assume you are exchanging messages with a man, which is not surprising considering you are muslim. Your women are too busy cooking, raising 12 babies and walking 10 feet behind you. Are they even allowed to use a computer or do you stone them to death if they do? We're not the same! I am a proud "infidel", I do not wear a burka, I refuse to convert to islamofascism & I intend on staying that way. The world already knows the meaning of "jihad."
@msmcis LMFAO wow you're one heck of a case lady/man/shemale whatever you are, i sure as hell can't know. No really, you've just proved that you got deep psychological issues, who told you to convert to whatever, get out of your little bubble and go meet people outside of your house or little town, it'll do you good. Such fantastic narrow-mindedness. "12 babies...etc", ROFL You don't even realize the utter BS that's coming out of your mind, if you're a girl then you must be a "blonde".
@Defsolid Ah, this is the typical muslim anger I was describing eariler. It takes so little to make you blow up. It must be a muslim characteristic. muslims are the cause of such intense security measures in airports these days. Had there been no islamic terrorist attacks, airports would be as they used to be. Not all muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are muslim.
@msmcis No anger whatsoever my dear muslim-hater pseudo- feminist, i was really laughing at your stupid sad reasoning in general, but i guess it's to be expected from your oversimplified twisted perception of the outside world. I gotta say that the first part of the last sentence of your last comment is a big progress from what you were saying before. I recommend researching terrorism around the world, you'll easily find out that muslims don't have the monopoly over terrorism.
@msmcis Also you should research state terrorism, the victims of the latter far outnumber those of rogue organisations. Anyway, i hope that you'll have a more humane way of seeing your fellow yet different human compadres than the one you expressed here, the world isn't black and white, there are many layers of gray, if you're really serious about this, make the effort to know the other instead of relying on hate propaganda, look at history's atrocities and how they started. Peace/Salam/Shalom
@Defsolid Keeping in mind you are muslim, it is so funny reading your messages as you try to portray yourself as a "rational" and "level-headed" person. Particularly when I listen to what imams teach their congregation, and what muslim dictators have to say about the goal of global islamic domination. I just read in the paper today that the UA has formed an anti-islamisation anti-terror committee where they will be discussing the various ways to stop the islamic plague in Europe. Thank heavens!
@msmcis lol, i guess you're a desperate case, enjoy your hate and paranoia, pity you could instead enjoy "a" life. Good luck with your crusade. Kirk out
@Defsolid Haha! My crusade? No, no, it is every Europeans crusade against isalmofascism and terrorism — soon to spread to the Americas as well. Let me see now, if I were to "enjoy a life" as a muzzie woman, I would be covered in black from head to toe, looking like the angel of death and having minimal visibility from the net in front of my eyes. If I were in arabia, would not be permitted to drive. No thanks! I think I prefer the "corruption of the West", which you seem to hypocritically enjoy.
@msmcis "Particularly when I listen to what imams teach their congregation, and what muslim dictators"
Because clearly it's the extremists & assholes that define a religion.
Which is why all Christians are clinic bombers , Uganda is the epitome of a "Christian Nation". Pat Robertson clearly represents all christianity.
Yes, many millions of christians will say they are not bigots, extremists or ignoramuses. & it will be funny reading how they portray themselves as "rational and level headed".
@booley Did I ever write that I support Christianity? I do not believe in any religion. I believe most religions are causes for human conflict. Anything Christians do wrong certainly does not excuse islamofascism, nor is it a basis to build an entire fascist ideology for islamofascist global domination. There are other religions in this world to consider, not just Christianity or isalmofascism. But then again, you are undoubtedly islamofascist yourself and that is why you feel offended. bye bye
@msmcis "Did I ever write that I support Christianity?"
Good then you can agree we should outlaw Christians from being near hopsitals since they might be a clinic bomber.
& schools too for obvious reasons.
I'm just agreeing with your point that extremists define a religion, no matter what % of the pop they make up or if there are others within that religion opposed to extremism.
So ban Muslims & Christians from certain areas.
IF you had children you would be less open minded about christians.
"nor is it (Christinaity) a basis to build an entire fascist ideology for ....fascist global domination." you might want to learn a bit more about the religion before you say stuff like that.
@booley I have no idea what you are driving at! As I have written before, I DO NOT SUPPORT ANY RELIGION OR ANY FORM OF IDEOLOGICAL DICTATORIAL TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER OTHERS. I hope this is BOLD and CLEAR. I am against ANY religion trying to dominate the others. Worst of all, the continuous islamofascist desire to control all of Europe and the Americas with jihad, sharia laws and the islamisation of the West. Women covered in black and looking like the angels of death is not my thing. bye bye
@msmcis I'm just agreeing with you, taking your comments to thier natural logical conclusion.
Since one can always find totalitarian impulses among some group in any religion.
So we should restrict the rights of people of religion. Just to be safe.
OF course atheists do that whole communist thing which used atheism to cement it's power/
So clearly atheists need to be restricted too. I know you will say you arent' a communist but muslims say they arent all terrorists so why take chances?
@msmcis I really dont' understand why you are being so testy when I am agreeign with you.
Clearly we must oppose "ANY FORM OF IDEOLOGICAL DICTATORIAL TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER OTHERS" by singling out & restricting anyone who might possibly think that way, whether we have proof or not, if they belong to a certain group. If anyone in a group has antisocial thoughts then then all must have them.
Only by oppressing others who are different from us will we all be free.
@msmcis Its just a name, anyway at least you are listening to the voice of reason in Amy Goodman. Muslims are people just like you, there is a battle within Islam between secularists, extremists, Sunnis, Shi'ites etc, we should be attempting to reason with them and side with the rationalists.
@urbanguerrilla64 Amy Goodman can hardly be considered "the voice of reason." She is an extreme leftist . It is not my responsibility to "reason" with muslims. I oppose them, and therefore it is quite all right with me if they do not get along with each other. The day will come when you will understand what islam is all about and what is muslim's final goal. It is obvious you are an American. Had you been British, you would have understood their strategy already. The joke's on u!
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Please remember that those who have served in the US military in the past are all heroes. They are bigger men than I, or the vast majority of people will ever be. Never doubt the cause.
How terribly sad that a message of sanity provokes insanity. And yes, I am a veteran, the only time my hair went below my collar was when I lived in an Alaskan village without a sober barber.
what have we become? the bush administration has accomplished exactly what they set out to do, put the fear in the people, with their propaganda and lies.
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Oh the poor boy with the tee shirt"We will not be Silenced". At this time it's like people joking about a bomb. Amy Goodman is pathetic. I appreciate the security doing their job. I think most people that fly feel this way.
People who are too afraid to walk up to an Arab or Persian person, say hello and ask them what their t-shirt means.
Instead of meeting someone and taking their measure, its easier to prejudge from a distance and assume the worst about your fellow American and human being.
Amy Goodman is no doubt a talented and accomplished, investigative journalist, but as far as objective commentary, she is no different than Limbaugh or Coulter. She purposely chooses supposed facts that support her idiological position. She ignores facts that don't support the story she wants to tell
absolutely true. something that i have trouble with. what i've decided that the difference is she doesn't claim to be "fair and balanced" like fox. she claims to be representing the marginalized news, which she does do.
Look behind the surface, friend. That's exactly what she (and others) invite Americans to do. Corporate media, however, will be very happy if you don't bother with such investigation, so they can continue to be fat, happy, and raking in the dough (at our expense). Ironically, people in other countries see us better than we see ourselves, oftentimes. So start reading the overseas media, too, and maybe you'll have your eyes opened a little more.
You might want to ask all of the poor, the elderly, and the homeless in our country, pipinki, how they feel about our "civilization" and "quality of life." And, no, "dimness" is not how we "manage to be the most 'successful'" country, and by that I take it you mean Superpower. No, not dimness, but sheer war-mongering, hegemonic greed, avarice, and bloodlust is how we got to be so "great." A country whose government lies to its citizens and sheds their blood for profit is hardly a "success."
Who ever calls Amy names, may camel dung be always on top of your head.
coolmamac 9 months ago
To be honest wearing a t-shirt that says "we will not be silent" in arabic is sort of asking for trouble.
LethalJizzle 9 months ago
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azicrow 9 months ago
@LethalJizzle - No that's blaming the victim. It's not his fault that the staffon that airline are prejudiced against a language. He should be able to get on a plane with arabic tattooed on his head if he wants to. Arabic is read by the vast majority of muslims so anything up to 1.5 billion people. You can not demonise a language it's ludicrous. That number is not even including the arab christians, jews, athiests, ba'hais etc...
azicrow 9 months ago
lying bitch, parasitic whore, genetically flawed, anti-social, childless misfit
brahmbhattbhavna 10 months ago
amy goodman is a whore
brahmbhattbhavna 10 months ago
Amy Goodman didn't go to Egypt because she was afraid Far Rosen would make fun of her if she got raped.
rachelgolem 1 year ago
When millions of Iraqis and Egyptians kill each other, you can blame this one stupid security guard.
rachelgolem 1 year ago
Goodman wouldn't last 10 minutes in any country where fundamental islamic rulers have been oppressing women for thousands of years. I don't believe this tee shirt story for one second.
AdmiralLobeam 1 year ago
What a silly question. What would I do? I'd do what I normally do on any flight. Try to sleep. Read when I can't sleep. What does it matter? What would you do? Would you be so afraid that you'd cancel your flight? Or maybe you'd tackle him to the floor and place him under citizen's arrest? He's just some guy with a shirt. How likely do you think it would be that an actual terrorist would wear a provocative shirt? Don't be such a wimp.
BigMikeMcBastard 1 year ago
@BigMikeMcBastard I'm a wimp? Name calling says more about the speaker, and easy to do when you are removed from the situation. It's not a silly question and you certainly are not gonna sit there reading. The fact is after that crew was briefed two days after a terrorist attempt on a JFK bound plane there was no way that JFK based plane was gonna take off without a few phone calls and questions. Not for a minute do I buy her portrait of this guy as some clueless Joe Anybody. She's a sneak.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd Considering you want to deprive someone of their ability to travel without being harassed I'm not all that concerned with what my calling you a wimp might say about me. Every single time I've flown a plane I've been flying with people who were far more likely than this guy to carry out a terrorist attack, and every time I couldn't have given two shits. Just because you feel uncomfortable doesn't give you the right to have someone else accosted by security staff to assuage your fears.
BigMikeMcBastard 1 year ago
@BigMikeMcBastard How do you know your fellow passengers are "far more likely than this guy to carry out a terrorist attempt'? But then again you don't know me from Adam either and you have me tackling him "to the floor" and placing him "under citizen's arrest". (Hardly a wimpy thing to do by the way and very likely to land me in jail.) I was talking about savvy New York political people and lawyers using a state of panic around air travel to make a buck. That's what I think. Happy New Year.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd So far 100% of all terrorist attacks attempted or successfully carried out were done by people NOT wearing provocative shirts with Arabic script on them.
Anyway, discarding one of the important documents upon which the US is based is alright I guess, just don't be one of those conservatives who then thumps their chest about "governing from the Constitution" or the other sorts of nonsense that people like Glenn Beck or Christine O'Donnell blather on about. Just don't be a hypocrite.
BigMikeMcBastard 1 year ago
@BigMikeMcBastard How do you know what they were wearing? Also, if you think a tee shirt with Arabic script is "provocative" then you can understand how someone sitting on a plane about to take off at JFK two days after a terrorist attempt was thwarted on a JFK bound plane 40,000 feet over the ocean would be a little nervous. Perhaps you should take your own advice about hypocrisy. You make a lot of assumptions but just FYI, I'd never watch Glenn Beck.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd You can read about what these people wore and see pictures of them on the Internet.
It's provocative in that there's a YouTube video I'm commenting on about it. I'd be indifferent to it, as I'm indifferent to most shirts with things written on them.
I wouldn't think anything of it. I could die at any time. I could die before I finish writing this sentence. No sense in worrying about it. Maybe that's just the soldier part of me talking, though.
You are in Glenn's company, with your fear
BigMikeMcBastard 1 year ago
@BigMikeMcBastard Right now I am sitting, stranded in DFW airport in the company of people unknown to me. Glenn Beck isn't among us. A plane in Jackson Hole went off the runway. Everyone is commenting about it, nervously. What is the chance this will happen to their flight? Almost no chance. But here is a general atavistic fear about being off terra firma. You may be the an anomaly. In any case we don't look to scare our fellow citizens and create panic with the hope of making money.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
Zzzzzzz......"oh, I'm sorry Amy, I fell asleep when you started in with your usual trite, banal and meaningless leftist drivel. I was wondering though, what drifter's corpse did you steal this ill-fitting outfit from and, PLEASE could you point me to the bridge your homeless wino hairdresser lives under? thanks!"
oldstock1607 1 year ago
She doesn't tell us this guy is an anti Iraq war political blogger, not your average, oblivious Joe. He's walking through JFK with that Tshirt hoping passengers would see him and complain. It was two days after a terrorist attempt on a plane was thwarted over the Atlantic. People were sitting there reading newpapers with the Shoe Bomber headline or watching the coverage on airport CNN. Then he walks by. THE VERY NEXT DAY the ACLU filed a lawsuit. She's a disgusting sneak.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd None of that changes the fact that someone was forbidden from flying with a shirt depicting Arabic script on it being visible. The airline was wrong to discriminate against him for something as stupid as that, and he had every right to go to the ACLU about it.
BigMikeMcBastard 1 year ago
@BigMikeMcBastard This is just another day at the office for Amy Goodman and her cronies. Two days after the shoe bomber was "silenced" on a plane the airport is on high alert, passengers are sitting there with "Shoe Bomber On Plane" headlines blaring at them, flight crews have just read emails from their company and union, they see the tee shirt. The Crew calls the TSA, he's questioned, makes a phone call and waits for the pay check. She's only pissed off she didn't get any "credit", (money).
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd It is awfully funny how quickly the First Amendment is done away with when it happens to involve Muslims or Arabs (or especially both).
BigMikeMcBastard 1 year ago
@BigMikeMcBastard This is not about "First Amendment Rights". This was an opportunity for some experts to make money. Those passengers, flight attendants and pilots (all workers) are sitting on a plane reading about a terrorist attempt that was thwarted (silenced) two days before. He walks on with a tee shirt that says, "We will not be silenced". If he comes to sit next to you, with this story fresh in your mind, what would you do? Do respond with abstractions about "Rights". What would you do?
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd Sorry, I meant DON'T respond with abstractions.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd So you're saying that because some people MIGHT have been afraid he shouldn't have been allowed to fly? He lost his rights by default? It's worth noting that there were no complaints received by the airline regarding this guy and his shirt, so if people were dramatically reading their papers about the shoe bomber and then looking up to see a scary brown guy with spooky language on his shirt they kept it to themselves.
This is a First Amendment issue. There's nothing abstract about it.
BigMikeMcBastard 1 year ago
@BigMikeMcBastard Isn't it possible one of the pilots or flight attendants or TSA people or passengers could have been "brown"? How do we know what they e-mailed the Airline? And what makes you so sure these are all white people who find a "brown guy" "scary" and who think Arabic a "spooky language"? Again, you are sitting in an airplane at JFK two days after a terrorist attempt at bombing a JFK bound plane on an aircraft 40,000 ft over the Atlantic. Our hero sits next to you. What do you do?
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
@rscmrcmd And yes, it's a First Amendment issue and yes his rights are being violated but WHAT DO YOU DO? And pleeeeeease no abstractions.
rscmrcmd 1 year ago
If Amy Goodman had children to put on an airplane, she wouldn't be so open minded about airport security.
rachelgolem 1 year ago
In 25 years, Amy Goodman will be alone in a nursing home, with nobody to visit her, blaming Jewish Republicans for the Iraqi civil war of 2012, in which millions of Iraqis killed each other.
rachelgolem 1 year ago
amy goodman,dr finkelstein,george galloway, should be the examples to all human race,and the world will be arrogant free,peace and democracy will provail
lhostizy 1 year ago
Yes, it's really funny, until you have children to put on an airplane.
rachelgolem 1 year ago
You are not using your ears, I am. I listen to every word imams and muslim dictators say. It is clear that the ultimate islamic goal is global domination, therefor, who cares what your average muslim thinks? It's not they who pave the way for islam. As for your "bigotry analysis", I frankly do not care if I come across that way. You may choose to be an islam apologist,. That is your chose. With regard to islam, I choose not to use political correctness or appeasement like you, the fearful one.
msmcis 1 year ago
Amy Goodman can hardly be considered "the voice of reason." She is an extreme leftist - not my cup of tea. It is not my responsibility to "reason" with muslims. I oppose them, and therefore it is quite all right with me if they do not get along with each other. The day will come when you will understand what islam is all about and what is muslim's final goal. It is obvious you are an American. Had you been British, you would have understood their strategy already. The joke will be on you!
msmcis 1 year ago
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@msmcis Not all Muslims jihad or are in favour of sharia law - terrorism is in the eye of the beholder.
urbanguerrilla64 1 year ago
Sad that a young man (not hating on him) speaks about Rihanna's new song and it gets 487,139 hits within a week or two. This very good story by Amy Goodman gets 8,837 hits within 4 years. It's SAD but true. Nice post
eyetell 1 year ago
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@eyetell That is because most people do not give a shit about muslims or islam.
msmcis 1 year ago
Amy Goodman obviously does not realise that she considered an "infidel" and an "ape or "pig" because she is Jewish by the very people she is defending.
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis only by the ignorant ones, there are ignorant people in all countries...
urbanguerrilla64 1 year ago
@urbanguerrilla64 Well then I guess all people who abide by the writings in the Koran are ignorant. How perfect!
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis I wouldn't defend the Koran or any of the religious fairy tales, but just like the Bible it can be interpreted in a number of ways - Muslims should be judged on their actions just like christians are.
urbanguerrilla64 1 year ago
@urbanguerrilla64 "Muslims should be judged on their actions just like christians are." That is precisely what I am judging muslims by - their actions - terrorism, jihad, imposed sharia laws, imposed islamic indoctrination and the stance of female inferiority.
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis Not all Muslims jihad or are in favour of sharia law - terrorism is in the eye of the beholder.
urbanguerrilla64 1 year ago
@urbanguerrilla64 With a name such as the one you have chosen, it is no wonder you are incapable of determining what is terrorism and what is not. The vast majority of muslims are in favour of sharia law, jihad, terrorism, and the treatment of women as second class citizens - including muslim women themselves.
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis with a comment such as your last one, no wonder you are incapable of understanding what urbanguerrilla64 has tried to get into your xenophobic sorry excuse of a brain.
Defsolid 1 year ago
@Defsolid Are def or deaf? You are solidly deaf! Are you into defending muslims as well? That's called appeasement. Xenophobes are those who fear islam so much that they have now chosen to defend it. Unless of course you are muslim yourself, in which case you have been brainwashed into believing you are superior.
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis lol your comeback is lacking for the simple reason that we're typing here not talking, you know we're not using our ears. Ok so you're not a xenophobe, but you're certainly a bigot, why? i'll explain it to you as simply as i can, taking a group of people and generalizing by saying they all support terrorism...etc either means that you have some super human powers that gives you the knowledge about every single individual muslim or you're just making this up to suit your bigoted mindset.
Defsolid 1 year ago
@Defsolid You are not using your ears, I am. I listen to every word imams and muslim dictators say. It is clear that the ultimate islamic goal is global domination, therefor, who cares what your average muslim thinks? It's not they who pave the way for islam. As for your "bigotry analysis", I frankly do not care if I come across that way. You may choose to be an islam apologist. That is your chose. With regard to islam, I choose not to use political correctness or appeasement, as you do.
msmcis 1 year ago
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Defsolid 1 year ago
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@msmcis you're not coming across as a bigot, you are a bigot and as far as you listening to imams, you sure as heck aren't listening to all of them, that is if you know arabic which i doubt. My guess is that you get your info from bigots who don't even know arabic themselves. If Amy Goodman is an extreme leftist from your point of view then you must be an extreme right winger who listens to yahoo evangelists and co.
Defsolid 1 year ago
@Defsolid Oh, so you are muslim yourself. I can see the steam blowing out of your ears already. Before you know it, you'll be blowing up (no pun intended of course.) It is no wonder why you are wasting your time trying to convince me that muslims are all innocent little lambs. Just remember one thing, I know you consider all non-muslims "infidels", which actually amounts to nothing. You will not be scoring any pints hear. I am a proud 'infidel" and a "bigot" just for you.
Worshipping moha-MAD?
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis your dodging strategy is lacking too. You've just confirmed what i was guessing in my last comment. And just to humour your babbling, there's nowhere in what i typed before a mention of "muslims are all angels" or "non-muslims are all infidel", only somebody like you would generalize about people he's ignorant about, what you fail to understand is an obvious fact (no offense), starting from yourself and the closest people to you, we are all the same and we are also individuals.
Defsolid 1 year ago
@Defsolid Interesting to know that you automatically assume you are exchanging messages with a man, which is not surprising considering you are muslim. Your women are too busy cooking, raising 12 babies and walking 10 feet behind you. Are they even allowed to use a computer or do you stone them to death if they do? We're not the same! I am a proud "infidel", I do not wear a burka, I refuse to convert to islamofascism & I intend on staying that way. The world already knows the meaning of "jihad."
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis LMFAO wow you're one heck of a case lady/man/shemale whatever you are, i sure as hell can't know. No really, you've just proved that you got deep psychological issues, who told you to convert to whatever, get out of your little bubble and go meet people outside of your house or little town, it'll do you good. Such fantastic narrow-mindedness. "12 babies...etc", ROFL You don't even realize the utter BS that's coming out of your mind, if you're a girl then you must be a "blonde".
Defsolid 1 year ago
@Defsolid Ah, this is the typical muslim anger I was describing eariler. It takes so little to make you blow up. It must be a muslim characteristic. muslims are the cause of such intense security measures in airports these days. Had there been no islamic terrorist attacks, airports would be as they used to be. Not all muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are muslim.
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis No anger whatsoever my dear muslim-hater pseudo- feminist, i was really laughing at your stupid sad reasoning in general, but i guess it's to be expected from your oversimplified twisted perception of the outside world. I gotta say that the first part of the last sentence of your last comment is a big progress from what you were saying before. I recommend researching terrorism around the world, you'll easily find out that muslims don't have the monopoly over terrorism.
Defsolid 1 year ago
@msmcis Also you should research state terrorism, the victims of the latter far outnumber those of rogue organisations. Anyway, i hope that you'll have a more humane way of seeing your fellow yet different human compadres than the one you expressed here, the world isn't black and white, there are many layers of gray, if you're really serious about this, make the effort to know the other instead of relying on hate propaganda, look at history's atrocities and how they started. Peace/Salam/Shalom
Defsolid 1 year ago
@Defsolid Keeping in mind you are muslim, it is so funny reading your messages as you try to portray yourself as a "rational" and "level-headed" person. Particularly when I listen to what imams teach their congregation, and what muslim dictators have to say about the goal of global islamic domination. I just read in the paper today that the UA has formed an anti-islamisation anti-terror committee where they will be discussing the various ways to stop the islamic plague in Europe. Thank heavens!
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis lol, i guess you're a desperate case, enjoy your hate and paranoia, pity you could instead enjoy "a" life. Good luck with your crusade. Kirk out
Defsolid 1 year ago
@Defsolid Haha! My crusade? No, no, it is every Europeans crusade against isalmofascism and terrorism — soon to spread to the Americas as well. Let me see now, if I were to "enjoy a life" as a muzzie woman, I would be covered in black from head to toe, looking like the angel of death and having minimal visibility from the net in front of my eyes. If I were in arabia, would not be permitted to drive. No thanks! I think I prefer the "corruption of the West", which you seem to hypocritically enjoy.
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis "Particularly when I listen to what imams teach their congregation, and what muslim dictators"
Because clearly it's the extremists & assholes that define a religion.
Which is why all Christians are clinic bombers , Uganda is the epitome of a "Christian Nation". Pat Robertson clearly represents all christianity.
Yes, many millions of christians will say they are not bigots, extremists or ignoramuses. & it will be funny reading how they portray themselves as "rational and level headed".
booley 1 year ago
@booley Did I ever write that I support Christianity? I do not believe in any religion. I believe most religions are causes for human conflict. Anything Christians do wrong certainly does not excuse islamofascism, nor is it a basis to build an entire fascist ideology for islamofascist global domination. There are other religions in this world to consider, not just Christianity or isalmofascism. But then again, you are undoubtedly islamofascist yourself and that is why you feel offended. bye bye
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis "Did I ever write that I support Christianity?"
Good then you can agree we should outlaw Christians from being near hopsitals since they might be a clinic bomber.
& schools too for obvious reasons.
I'm just agreeing with your point that extremists define a religion, no matter what % of the pop they make up or if there are others within that religion opposed to extremism.
So ban Muslims & Christians from certain areas.
IF you had children you would be less open minded about christians.
booley 1 year ago
@booley BTW...
"nor is it (Christinaity) a basis to build an entire fascist ideology for ....fascist global domination." you might want to learn a bit more about the religion before you say stuff like that.
Is it so hard to google "Dominion Theology"?
booley 1 year ago
@booley I have no idea what you are driving at! As I have written before, I DO NOT SUPPORT ANY RELIGION OR ANY FORM OF IDEOLOGICAL DICTATORIAL TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER OTHERS. I hope this is BOLD and CLEAR. I am against ANY religion trying to dominate the others. Worst of all, the continuous islamofascist desire to control all of Europe and the Americas with jihad, sharia laws and the islamisation of the West. Women covered in black and looking like the angels of death is not my thing. bye bye
msmcis 1 year ago
@msmcis I'm just agreeing with you, taking your comments to thier natural logical conclusion.
Since one can always find totalitarian impulses among some group in any religion.
So we should restrict the rights of people of religion. Just to be safe.
OF course atheists do that whole communist thing which used atheism to cement it's power/
So clearly atheists need to be restricted too. I know you will say you arent' a communist but muslims say they arent all terrorists so why take chances?
booley 1 year ago
@msmcis I really dont' understand why you are being so testy when I am agreeign with you.
Clearly we must oppose "ANY FORM OF IDEOLOGICAL DICTATORIAL TOTALITARIAN CONTROL OVER OTHERS" by singling out & restricting anyone who might possibly think that way, whether we have proof or not, if they belong to a certain group. If anyone in a group has antisocial thoughts then then all must have them.
Only by oppressing others who are different from us will we all be free.
It is for the children.
booley 1 year ago
@msmcis Its just a name, anyway at least you are listening to the voice of reason in Amy Goodman. Muslims are people just like you, there is a battle within Islam between secularists, extremists, Sunnis, Shi'ites etc, we should be attempting to reason with them and side with the rationalists.
urbanguerrilla64 1 year ago
@urbanguerrilla64 Amy Goodman can hardly be considered "the voice of reason." She is an extreme leftist . It is not my responsibility to "reason" with muslims. I oppose them, and therefore it is quite all right with me if they do not get along with each other. The day will come when you will understand what islam is all about and what is muslim's final goal. It is obvious you are an American. Had you been British, you would have understood their strategy already. The joke's on u!
msmcis 1 year ago
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@msmcis Not all Muslims jihad or are in favour of sharia law - terrorism is in the eye of the beholder.
urbanguerrilla64 1 year ago
dis video arite styl
TheBrinsford 1 year ago
amy is a biased reporter
bbmonte 1 year ago
@bbmonte you are a biased person.
josmcg 1 year ago
amy goodman, is a true woman who calls it as its.
shes fair and a good person.
iraqibodybuilder 1 year ago
thank god for democracy now and amy goodman kicks ass!
jasonliao2 2 years ago
Amy Goodman is radical lesbian socialist!
Down with the homosexual mafia!!! Ha!
tryanjohnson 2 years ago
@tryanjohnson Your an idiot. Not a liar, but an idiot. Ha!
eyetell 1 year ago
If you had children to put on an airplane, the story wouldn't be so funny.
rachelgolem 2 years ago
Everyone should learn about the "White rose" resistance movement.
IBMeddling 2 years ago 3
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Please remember that those who have served in the US military in the past are all heroes. They are bigger men than I, or the vast majority of people will ever be. Never doubt the cause.
daviddoyle1978 2 years ago
That was great! I love it when people take action for the better good in a peaceful manner! Not really a fan of the violent mob lol.
sadbrwneyes989 2 years ago 6
this bitch is sorry!!! she is bored, hasn`t had anything to do since vietnam.
butchie01 2 years ago
amy GOODman is better than you, butch.
TheMikeBuck 2 years ago 2
So is your mother, she's had nothing to do since you were born :D
mapple23 2 years ago
America is FULL of beautiful and caring, heartwarming and nice people but its the other league of people that is driving them to HELL.
I call that league of people ZIONISTS
zeb120 2 years ago 3
How terribly sad that a message of sanity provokes insanity. And yes, I am a veteran, the only time my hair went below my collar was when I lived in an Alaskan village without a sober barber.
Thank you Amy.
tnazar 2 years ago 3
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this hippy bitch has no fucking idea what it takes for us to protect her precious rights.
you antiwar hippy potheads have the right to your opinions, and we have the right to punch your lights out.
boobwatcher1911 2 years ago
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There is no God but Marx and Chomsky is his messenger.
rachelgolem 2 years ago
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If Ms. Goodman lived in an arab family in the middle east, it is likely she would have been murdered by her family for refusing an arranged marriage.
rachelgolem 2 years ago
stop being so jealous and hateful of amy.unlike you shes a good person.
amy goodman for president.
SaracenArrow 2 years ago
Stupid dumbfuck. Arranged marriages doesn't exist in arab countries , its more in India.
idricool 2 years ago
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God Bless Amy Goodman!
djuhlinger 3 years ago 2
Amy is a GODSEND.
TSquared2001 3 years ago 9
GOD bless this woman
GOD bless this woman
zeb120 2 years ago 3
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@TSquared2001 "Amy is a GODSEND." That totally depends who you talk to. You are obviously a Democrap. LOL
msmcis 1 year ago
Trickle up media :) Go Amy!
mjtoillion 4 years ago 3
Amy Goodman would have made a good interagator at S-21
unclesamhere 4 years ago
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Wow, you really are blonde aren't you. Does your care worker know you are spouting this shite on the internet.
carpal24 4 years ago
Thank you Amy.
badaustad 4 years ago 3
what have we become? the bush administration has accomplished exactly what they set out to do, put the fear in the people, with their propaganda and lies.
diane4peace 4 years ago
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Oh the poor boy with the tee shirt"We will not be Silenced". At this time it's like people joking about a bomb. Amy Goodman is pathetic. I appreciate the security doing their job. I think most people that fly feel this way.
ekim53 4 years ago
People who are too afraid to walk up to an Arab or Persian person, say hello and ask them what their t-shirt means.
Instead of meeting someone and taking their measure, its easier to prejudge from a distance and assume the worst about your fellow American and human being.
Honestly, you can't say hello to someone?
crock703 3 years ago 2
Democracy is under attack by the people that Amy Goodman consistently defends. I think her movement is misnamed.
lintoid 4 years ago
she is the best role model ever.
ayankahin 4 years ago
Amy Goodman is no doubt a talented and accomplished, investigative journalist, but as far as objective commentary, she is no different than Limbaugh or Coulter. She purposely chooses supposed facts that support her idiological position. She ignores facts that don't support the story she wants to tell
POSUOR 4 years ago
absolutely true. something that i have trouble with. what i've decided that the difference is she doesn't claim to be "fair and balanced" like fox. she claims to be representing the marginalized news, which she does do.
itsacorporatething 4 years ago
Love Amy all her work is appreciated.
the best jurnalist in the world. THE QUEEN OF THE MEADIA
mustaphazid 5 years ago
Amy is a brilliant human illuminating our modern American dimness.
thebigpeach 5 years ago
dimness? is that how we manage to be the most successful country with the highest quality of life and the very zenith of civilization?
pipinki 4 years ago
Look behind the surface, friend. That's exactly what she (and others) invite Americans to do. Corporate media, however, will be very happy if you don't bother with such investigation, so they can continue to be fat, happy, and raking in the dough (at our expense). Ironically, people in other countries see us better than we see ourselves, oftentimes. So start reading the overseas media, too, and maybe you'll have your eyes opened a little more.
loveisthevehicle 4 years ago
Sorry...forgot to mention I was replying to Pipinki (who feels the US is too glorious to be anything but great).
loveisthevehicle 4 years ago
You might want to ask all of the poor, the elderly, and the homeless in our country, pipinki, how they feel about our "civilization" and "quality of life." And, no, "dimness" is not how we "manage to be the most 'successful'" country, and by that I take it you mean Superpower. No, not dimness, but sheer war-mongering, hegemonic greed, avarice, and bloodlust is how we got to be so "great." A country whose government lies to its citizens and sheds their blood for profit is hardly a "success."
SweetDissident 2 years ago