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Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by ngoel36 »

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eshvk wrote: post #6

This makes me so angry. This was one of the reasons I got out of consulting. Every fucking time, I would get an enhanced check. Surprisingly enough, it is nothing new. This is something you face if you are a minority. Hell, I remember a friend from back in Africa whose dad got blacklisted in the nineties because he had a beard. Brown catholic guy with a beard got blacklisted. The only difference now is that at least…

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No, consultants travel often enough that the frequency of enhanced checks starts adding up to a lot

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by jlgreco »

[deleted] wrote: post #10
eshvk wrote: post #6

This makes me so angry. This was one of the reasons I got out of consulting. Every fucking time, I would get an enhanced check. Surprisingly enough, it is nothing new. This is something you face if you are a minority. Hell, I remember a friend from back in Africa whose dad got blacklisted in the nineties because he had a beard. Brown catholic guy with a beard got blacklisted. The only difference now is that at least…

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I believe he means that being a consultant required that he fly frequently, and they happened to single him out as well.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by acchow »

eshvk wrote: post #6

This makes me so angry. This was one of the reasons I got out of consulting. Every fucking time, I would get an enhanced check. Surprisingly enough, it is nothing new. This is something you face if you are a minority. Hell, I remember a friend from back in Africa whose dad got blacklisted in the nineties because he had a beard. Brown catholic guy with a beard got blacklisted. The only difference now is that at least…

Fuck Jet Blue. I'm boycotting them.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by koenigdavidmj »

cpfohl wrote: post #13
waqf wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If America were capable of doing that in the common-sense manner you imply, it wouldn't need a written constitution.

I don't follow...can you connect the dots for me?

The Constitution imposes a lot of constraints on the government that make its job more difficult, presumably because those rights would not be protected if it was necessarily to rely on some inherent bit of goodness in bureaucrats.

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Post by jgalt212 »

tokenizer wrote: post #18

The United States (Government) are a bunch of unenlightened, racist, xenophobic people bent on oppressing people by treating every non english/anglo-saxon as a terrorist. Please, someone tell me this isn't the case in an absolute sense.

oh, Hi Noam Chomsky.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by toomuchtodo »

chimeracoder wrote: post #12
lotsofpulp wrote: post #4

I couldn't even make it to the end. Land of the free, home of the brave.

Author here. I'd recommend reading until the end - unfortunately, it didn't end when I was released from airport.

The last part made me throw up a bit in my mouth.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by lukeqsee »

fsckin wrote: post #14

>In all my life, I have only felt that same chilling terror once before - on one cold night in September twelve years ago, when I huddled in bed and tried to forget the terrible events in the news that day, wondering why they they had happened, wondering whether everything would be okay ever again. Wow... just wow.

Perhaps the terrorists knew this would happen all along. They knew our paranoia would surpass any efforts they could ever hope accomplish. Instead of terrorizing a few thousand, they could terrorize a whole nation—daily and officially.

It's brilliant and pathetic at the same time.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by ferdo »

chimeracoder wrote: post #12
lotsofpulp wrote: post #4

I couldn't even make it to the end. Land of the free, home of the brave.

Author here. I'd recommend reading until the end - unfortunately, it didn't end when I was released from airport.

I'm not able to access your site. I'm getting "Unable to connect" in Firefox. The rest of the net is fine.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by danso »

On an offbeat note, this reminds me of the only time I've ever been thoroughly patted down at an airport. It was in Shreveport and during a weekday, with very little foot traffic. I was with a friend who looks like the classical all-American girl and me, well, I'm a minority but a "Golden Minority" (being facetious about that term, not serious...). Anyway, the TSA people were very nice about pulling us aside and patting us down and nominally going through our stuff. I thought it was weird but then I looked behind us and saw a woman and child, both dressed in hijab, who subsequently also received the full pat-and-search routine.
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