Saturday, August 11, 2007
Tigerhawk has the story of the ACLU and a guy named Raed Jarrar's lawsuit against Jet Blue, the TSA and their employees personally for "profiling" him on a flight he boarded. Apparently, he was wearing a t-shirt that made other passengers uncomfortable: The ACLU sues JetBlue on behalf of a passenger who happens to be an Arab. Be sure to check out Tigerhawk's post for photos of Jarrar and his shirt, as well as analysis of the case. A snip:
The ACLU says it was "clear" even ex ante that Jarrar was not a security threat. According to the news story, their basis for this is that Jarrar is "a U.S. resident since 2005 and the husband of an American citizen." The complaint adds that Jarrar had already passed through TSA security checkpoints as further evidence that he was not a threat. More on that in a bit.
Now, who is Jarrar? He is a full-time NGO activist...
Tigerhawk is very mild in his description of Jarrar and the groups, like AFSC and Global Exchange, that he works for. I'll tell you a little more about who he is, and who's ultimately at fault for this entire thing: Our immigration officials. Raed Jarrar is the former Iraqi blogging at Raed in the Middle who wrote, after suicide terrorists in Iraq drove a car bomb into a crowd of Iraqi children who were getting candy from American troops, killing an American soldier and 20+ children:
Pretty typical fare from this guy who output a stream of anti-Americanism on his blog.
And yet, with millions of people around the world (and in Iraq) who would literally give their right arms to come to America, our officials let this terrorist-supporting piece of crap come here to live, instead of keeping the door shut in his face where it belonged. Now we're paying for it. We let an activist in the legal Jihad here. We should have known better.
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Raed Jarrar, an anti-American, pro-Saddam mouthpiece who never should have been allowed into this country in the first place, has won a big settlement: TSA, JetBlue Pay $240,000 to Settle Discrimination Suit Transportation Security Administration offic... Read More
