JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

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  otisjose@...01/07/09 Report as spam
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  RE: JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

  I say to Mr. Jarrar or whatever his name is......TOO BAD! If you want to live in America, then act like an American. I think JetBlue had every right to make that damn terrorist bastard cover his shirt. "We will not be silent"...what does that mean? Who is "WE?" I though the was an "American" citizen. Sure doesn't sound like it. It sounds like he's associating himself with Iraquis or terrorists. I just hope they made him take his smelly ass turbin off his head too. It's all "unfair" until he highjacks the plane and slams it into a building.

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  janismara@...01/07/09 Report as spam
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  RE: JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

  Great headline. While not a disaster, this seems like another bad PR event for JetBlue.

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  wasupdog01/07/09 Report as spam
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  RE: JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

  I think it's b.s. I would be suspicious of an iraqi wearing that shirt on a plane i was about to board. What is "we will not be silent"? Are you going to try to make your cause heard by doing something on this flight? That is a stupid choice of a shirt to wear onto a plane.If your this guy and you don't want to be hassled, wear a regular shirt when you fly. How did they come up with $240,000. I say refund his ticket and that's it.

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  SHANNY194301/08/09 Report as spam
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  RE: JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

  I'M IN TOTAL AGREEMENT WITH "WASUPDOG" AND "OTISJOSE". WE SEE HOW PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST TREAT ANY AMERICAN SUPPORT, USUALLY WITH VIOLENCE. WE EXPECT THE AIRLINES TO MAINTAIN ORDER AND SAFETY ON OUR FLIGHTS. I FEEL THAT T-SHIRT WAS DISPLAYED INTENTIONALLY TO DISRRUPT THE USUAL CALM OF THE FLIGHT. TO BE PC I KNOW THE ACLU LOONS WOULDN'T WANT ANYONE TO STEREOTYPE A MIDDLE EASTERNER, BUT, BY GOLLY, I DO EVERY TIME I FLY.THEY BROUGHT THIS ON THEMSELVES.
  GO JETBLUE....
  SHANNY**43

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  brett snyder01/08/09 Report as spam
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  RE: JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

  Are you all serious? By wearing this t-shirt, there's no reason he shouldn't expect extra security screening from the process, but for him to be denied boarding unless he covered up his shirt is absurd. Is there some magical bomb that goes off when Arabic is viewable? Clearly they didn't see a real security threat since they would have allowed him to board with his shirt covered up. Requiring it to be covered is discriminatory.

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  safeteeguy01/08/09 Report as spam
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  RE: JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

  Go Jet Blue! I know I'll be looking for Jet Blue flights from now on. I think TSA didn't go far enough with this guy. He should have been detained and turned over to the FBI for questioning and possible deportation, as he is not a U.S. citizen. At a minimum, he was obviously trying to incite a confrontation. I don't see any difference in this and a verbal confrontation for which he would certainly have been removed.

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  barbara e hernandez01/08/09 Report as spam
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  RE: JetBlue, TSA Workers Pay $240,000 to Settle T-Shirt Lawsuit

  Wow, from these posts, it's easy to see why some passengers might have complained about his shirt. I think it illustrates my point above -- sometimes it's not about security, but xenophobia and prejudice.

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  xyzzyaarg11/13/09 Report as spam
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  did someone say outdated beliefs?? xenophobia??

  I think this whole "muslims are out to get us" is very new...
  and I don't just mean since the 2001 airplane incident... even
  the 1979 attack on the US Embassy in Iran, or the 1983/1984
  bombing of our embassies in Lebanon and Kuwait, or the 1988
  airplane explosion in Scottland (had lots of US Soldiders on it),
  or the 1993 world trade center bombing, and dozens more...
  those are pretty recent too.
  
  Besides these recent 20th century events, no westerner has
  thought anything prejudiced against Muslims since the 17th
  century Barbary raids in Europe, which were near the end of a
  thousand years of Muslim assaults on non-Muslims, which is
  only natural since prejudice is built into their religion. Read
  their "holy" book for yourself.
  
  I think they ARE out to get us, and they've never stopped --
  they were just on a 300-year strategic cease-fire.
  
  If anything is outdated, it's the Christian belief that we should
  turn the other cheek (that's SOOOO 1st century...). It was ok
  for its time but the advent of Islam made it obsolete.