Did The TSA and JetBlue Deny Travel For Looking Muslim During Ramadan? No

Release the gate security video and we can make our own determinations.

Sorry I am still taking his side.

This writeup is not only just nit-picking his story - it's using the TSA as witness against itself.

I am most certainly not going to the take TSA's word for what happened. That would be like taking the NSA's word to congress for example. What do you think happens by lesser agencies on non-sworn testimony when they see what their big-brother can get away with?

And the "behavior detection" has already been outed multiple times as a huge pile of poo. It's identical to the signals cops can give their dogs for false positives to search someone anyway just because they want to.

By the way, if he was so dangerous and already being watched YOU LET HIM GET INTO A CROWDED TERMINAL WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE WITH HIS LUGGAGE AND BACKPACK.

Morons. So someone is only dangerous if they get on the plane, not in the crowed terminal eh?

I feel so safe now at your crowded checkpoints.

Prove to me they didn't search his home without serving him a warrant and then we'll talk about the accuracy of this story.

"Mr. Mukerjee appears to have been flagged by the Behaviour Detection Officer (BDO) while in line for what appeared to be unusual behaviours. [...] it is impossible to assess what caught the Officer’s attention, but the TSA source indicates Mr. Mukerjee was already on someone’s radar before he chose to opt-out."

What 'unusual behaviors' led to him getting flagged? While maybe Mr. Mukerjee had suspicious behavior I'm skeptical of saying that his looks did not contribute to the heightened harsh treatment. Would a Caucasian male get the same treatment?

It's expected. Even in the most optimistic of circumstances, you have to believe that innocent people will get caught in an anti-terrorism net. Same as most things- innocent people get arrested far away from airports, too.

The question (and failure) is what happens after that. But false positives in themselves isn't surprising.

I know it won't happen, but I wish this blog post would go as viral as the original. Not that I accept this post as the complete truth, but because people deserve to hear two sides of the story. Often times all people will hear is the accusations of something like this and accept it as fact and the eventual acquittals (or explanations) never get as much publicity. Like Mark Twain said "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."