What "leather jackets and thick jumpers"?

[matgb]

Those "terrorists" thrown off the plane? They looked suspicious because they were wearing heavy clothes and sweaters? Bullshit.

The friends deny claims they were wearing heavy leather jackets which aroused suspicion. They insist they merely had on light windcheaters, T-shirts and jeans.

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One of the racist gits tries to defend the hysteria:

But lecturer Jo Schofield - travelling with husband Heath and daughter Isabel, 12 - tried to explain why panic gripped the 150 passengers on the flight.

She said: "Everyone agreed the men looked dodgy. Some passengers were very panicky and in tears. There was a lot of talking about terrorists."

Lecturer. She's a lecturer. Would you want her teaching you or your kids? The men looked "dodgy". Why, because they're brown and spoke Urdu?

They're confiscating books they don't like the look off, and removing people from planes because they're brown, even if they're a fully qualified airline pilot on a staff ticket. Let's here it for sane and rational shall we?

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[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Well, that Craig Murray is clearly a subversive. Of course his books should be confiscated.

The Indie rang a series of articles a couple of months ago after someone carrying the paper - with a headline critical of (if I remember correctly) the war in Iraq - was arrested for political activity - I think it was near Parliament, and they were subject to the new law banning demonstrations within so many yards of Westminster. (Heaven forbid that any political activity happens near - or in! - Parliament...)

[matgb]

Yeah, it was a copy of Vanity Fair with an article by Henry Porter in it detailing the civil liberties stuff the Govts been up to, someone was sat outside Downing St reading it, within the exclusion zone.

If I were in London next week, I'd do Mark Thomas/Rachel's latest thing, but I can't make it; I'll post a plug for it later though.

The law is SOCPA, because ringing a bell at the cenotaph is a Serious Organised Crime...

[tiredstars.livejournal.com]

I remember having the Nietzsche book I was carrying scrutinised very carefully at Schiphol airport. But that was a year ago. These days they'd probably just destroy it with a controlled explosion.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

But if they didn't, would the book be stronger?

[matgb]

That.

Was bad. Just so y'know.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Bad. But irresistible!

[jackthomas.livejournal.com]

haha! I thought it was excellent!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Vanity Fair being dangerously subversive.

It would be funny if it wasn't so scary.