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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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?


I agree - let's hear it for sane and rational. After all, they appear to have had the good sense to get out of the situation nice and early...

[matgb]

I'm wondering where they're going.

Except, it seems, they're mostly hanging out on LJ, so very few people, even on communities that attract wingnuts, seem to think these moves make any sense at all.

Demographics, education levels, etc I guess.