ACLU Client Raed Jarrar Sues JetBlue and TSA

From aclu.org/jarrar: Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi-born architect and human rights activist who was barred from boarding a JetBlue flight at John F. Kennedy Airport for wearing a t-shirt that read "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic. On August 9, 2007, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against JetBlue and a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official charging that they illegally discriminated against Raed based solely on the message on his t-shirt and his ethnicity. Learn more about Raed's case, free speech and racial profiling at www.aclu.org/jarrar.

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[DVMartinEsq]

Apparently, you aren't aware that that Rosa Parks, working with the NAACP, sat down in the front of the bus to force the police to arrest her and to bring national attention to the injustice of the law forcing African-Americans to sit in the back of the bus. Civil disobediance has always been part of the civil rights movement.

[Zeith101]

You people who are against the civil liberties of humanity need to wake the fuck up before the united states turns into a anglo saxan corporate police state. Racism is also unacceptable and the fact that you are displaying such bigotry towards any human being is sickening.

[avnxs]

jetblue needs to RETRAIN its employees...

the example begins at the top

[MrBelrox]

@Zeith101 So let them run over us. I got ya. Do you see how weak you sound? Like a little whimp.  I'm happy there are BRAVE men and women in this country and not a bunch of softies like you. WE WOULDN'T BE A NATION IF EVERYONE THOUGHT LIKE YOU!

[Zeith101]

@MrBelrox How is going to another country and invading considered defense? Did those people you confront come to your house and attempt to murder you? On the contrary, you went over there, and under an infantile pretext, took arms. Which doesn't make you a killer.. it makes you gullible. Revenge and retaliation are not christian deeds.. did you see jesus picking up a rifle and shoot the men who came to crucify him? He was altruistic, and as a christian, you should learn from his creed.

[MrBelrox]

@Zeith101 So I'm a killer because I'm a veteran? Where in the Bible does it say thou shall not defend themselves?

[Zeith101]

@MrBelrox "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5:39. Not so 'conservative christian', now are you? What about "Thou shall not kill"? Does any of that ring a bell? Do you recall any of jesus' teachings or do you soil yourself in church and pretend to belong to the 'christian' category? Love my friend. Unconditional Love.. This is the only way you will enter the kingdom of 'heaven'. Good luck.

[Zeith101]

@MrBelrox I don't recall spewing any 'white man hate'.. As a matter of fact, I'm bright white, european descent. Not only were you manipulated to perceive the worst in an entire ethnic population, but the samples from that population that you confronted, were just that--islamic militants. You can't extrapolate from your small radius to the entire globe, because some of the most beautiful people that I've met have been muslim--and sometimes even religious. You take radical extremists & generalize

[MrBelrox]

@Zeith101 But you would scream ALLAH AKBAR! If Islamic extremest publicly beheaded white Christian conservatives

[MrBelrox]

@Zeith101 Actually Zeith I am a veteran. And I can prove it if you want. I did 4 years in the Marines as an 0311 and I'm going back in. So don't you tell me I have no idea what I'm talking about. I know you are anti-military and anti-American, but because of people like me you have the right to spew your white man hate all over the internet. And because of me you have the right to kiss the feet of every Muslim you walk past. You would NEVER hold up a rifle to defend your country but

[Zeith101]

@MrBelrox Sir. Your myopic and clearly inarticulate standpoint fails to substantiate any premise. I recommend that you spend a couple of years in an accredited educational institution--or perhaps pick up a book or two before your egocentric world dwindles before your eyes. That's right.. not only do you fail to provide a context or backdrop to the fecal matter you duly regurgitated, but you seem to suggest a magnanimous lack of experience with life itself. Good luck, and may men pity you.

[MrBelrox]

@Zeith101 Because its whites that commit 99.9% of terrorist attacks in the world right? Because of weak people like you our nation will eventually fall.