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[TomInTib]

[americanstranger]

1. This was posted over in LBN.

The guy was actually an Iraqi architect.

Story here: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/63716

- as

[zulchzulu]

2. He could have really set them off with a t-shirt that said:

"I Like Liquids"

Or worse, perhaps a Kerry/Edwards t-shirt....man, that would drive security crazy!

[acmejack]

3. This is a Nation of Cowards and assholes now.

Even this board is not without it's examples of the same, mostly the latter, but who can really tell about the former until the circumstances are right?

The only solace I have is in the fact I am old and in failing health. I am actually glad I am no longer young, there is nothing they can do to me that really bothers me anymore. I NEVER thought I would say that!

[TomInTib]

6. I know exactly what you mean, acmejack

I, too, have grown old and somewhat out of the range of sway.

But I am still eligible for military call-up for the next 6 years (until I am 62).
I have grown too creaky to fight again.

[mmonk]

4. Maybe one day the Iraqis can teach us about free speech

since they are supposedly headed for democracy and we are moving in the other direction. Or maybe.........they aren't either.

[Dhalgren]

5. What utterly silly bullshit. Is this what we have come to?

A t-shirt with Arab script that the "others" could not even read, yet it was "disturbing" them? The US is not only lethally stupid, it is ridiculously boring...