This stinks

Being one who works in the trash industry, I know my odors.

This one is ripe, and not just because it comes from the left wing “news” site, Democracy Now

Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt Bearing Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK

Raed Jarrar: I made it back to the United States in a very easy way. In fact, the incident that happened in JFK was not related to my trip, because I went back to D.C. I spent a day in D.C. Then I took the bus to New York. I spent a couple of days in New York. There was an event there. Then I was supposed to take my airplane, my Jet Blue airplane from JFK to Oakland in California last Saturday. So I went to the airport in the morning, and I was prevented to go to my airplane by four officers, because I was wearing this t-shirt that says “We will not be silent” in both Arabic and English. And I was told by one of the officials that wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script in an airport now is like going to a bank with a t-shirt that reads, “I am a robber.”

(snip)

I was questioned by four officials from — I think some of them were from Jet Blue and others were maybe policemen or FBI. I have no idea. I took their names and badge numbers, and I filed a complaint through ACLU against them, because I asked them very directly to let me go to the airplane, because it’s my constitutional right as a U.S. taxpayer and resident to wear a t-shirt with Arabic script. And they prevented to let me exercise this right, and they made me cover the script with another t-shirt.

First off, while he does, as an American, have the right to wear anything he wants in public (open carry of pistols not included), but he has absolutely no right to ride on private transportation, especially one so heavily regulated as an aircraft. Maybe he missed that day in Civics class?

Almost literally, if the provider/carrier decides they don’t like the way you parted your hair that morning, you’re grounded until you make them happy.

Secondly, I have absolutely no fear in calling him a liar after reading that he “filed a complaint with the ACLU”. When you file a complaint, even if it is with a group as slapstick as the ACLU, you need names and who they work for to put into the complaint. This interview took place very shortly after the supposed incident, so he should at least be able to tell us whether the badge number he collected were local PD or a Fibbie.

But alas, all we get is “I think some of them were from Jet Blue and others were maybe policemen or FBI. I have no idea.”

This fairytale of woe is getting a little traction among leftists, especially the ones who “Questioned the Timing” of the UK plot bust. Having read what this chucklehead said in this DN radio interview, I have no belief that anything he has written on his own site is any more truthful.