Showing posts with label When will some people learn. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Fear Itself

How appropriate...

Transportation Security Administration at Tampa International Airport finds box cutter in back pack...

Benjamin Baines Jr. pleaded guilty to the concealed weapons charge. He seems to think that he was charged not because of what was found in his possession, but because, drum roll please... "he was black and carrying the Koran," That damn profiling thing again! Well not really...

[...] The X-ray image of a box cutter inside Benjamin Baines Jr.'s backpack caught the attention of federal officers Sunday morning at Tampa International Airport. [...]

[...] But it was the packaging that really jolted them: a hollowed-out book that hid the razor-sharp tool. Also inside the backpack: a Koran, a Holy Bible and rap music lyrics referencing police, drugs and guns. [...]

The title of the book that the box cutter was concealed in.... Fear Itself

Obviously this is all just a big misunderstanding...

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