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13:54 - DEFCON 5, all is clear, let's go fly a kite
http://washtimes.com/national/20040721-101403-1508r.htm
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So the mystery has been solved about the bizarre Syrian musicians who behaved on their flight to San Diego as though they were trying at all costs to make everyone on the plane think they were about to become hijack victims. Turns out all's well, there's no reason for anyone to have worried, and the passengers who thought there was something odd about Middle Eastern men queueing up en masse at the lavatory, passing weird paper bags back and forth to each other, and making little hand signals to each other over their Qurans are just paranoid. Racist too, I'm sure.
But that's just one of the stories of airsickness coming out these days, and the Washington Times has a good roundup of them.
A second pilot said that, on one of his recent flights, an air marshal forced his way into the lavatory at the front of his plane after a man of Middle Eastern descent locked himself in for a long period.
The marshal found the mirror had been removed and the man was attempting to break through the wall. The cockpit was on the other side.
But I'm sure he was just a musician on his way to a gig. Or a real estate agent. Or a Palm salesman. Any one of whom probably had perfectly good reasons to try to break through the bulkhead from the lavatory into the cockpit he frickin' tried to BREAK into the COCKPIT THROUGH THE BATHROOM WALL and we're only finding out about it NOW, as part of a SURVEY?!
Eh. But why worry? As everyone knows, the terror alert system is a big sham, a tool of the Bush Administration's scheme to keep us all programmed into a state of terrified torpor by a manufactured, fictional "threat", and hateful and fearful of innocent Arabs and Muslims in our midst.
Now let's forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!
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Brian Tiemann
