[kj] OT: Man held as terrorism suspect over punk song

[dammit bleep]

I wonder what the ethnicity of the passenger was. I
mean, if a stone cold white person sings the Clash,
who's to worry too much. If someone of color (be it
black, Indian, Missle Eastern in particular) sings
these words, people tense up.

Suppose he were reading Revelations aloud. What then?

-jim

--- FLIGHT BRINGER <flightbringer at hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:

> I dont think that its paranoid at all. Look at it
> from the taxi drivers 
> point of view: A man who resembles a terrorist get
> inside your cab and 
> starts singing about "Now war is declared -- and
> battle come  down" is 
> enough to arouse anyone's suspicions. Dont forget
> that the taxi driver could 
> not hear the music and probably would nt have heard
> of the Clash song.
>    Its not as though a person got into a cab started
> singing along to a song 
> that the driver could hear or was familiar with. And
> the passenger was on 
> his way to the airport as well
>   I do feel that its the duty of every  member of
> the public to be vigilant 
> and to report their suspicions.
> 
> 
> >From: LONESTYLE at aol.com
> >Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke
> (the 
> >band!)"<gathering at misera.net>
> >To: gathering at misera.net
> >Subject: [kj] OT: Man held as terrorism suspect
> over punk song Date: Wed, 5 
> >Apr 2006 14:26:17 EDT
> >
> >People are just plain paranoid. ~LB
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >April 5, 2006 - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
> >
> >
> >British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man
> from a  plane after a taxi
> >driver had earlier become suspicious when he
> started singing  along to a 
> >track
> >by punk band The Clash, police said Wednesday.
> >Detectives halted the London-bound flight at Durham
> Tees  Valley Airport in
> >northern England and Harraj Mann, 24, was taken 
> off.
> >The taxi driver had become worried on the way to
> the  airport because Mann
> >had been singing along to The Clash's 1979 anthem
> "London  Calling," which
> >features the lyrics "Now war is declared -- and
> battle come  down" while 
> >other
> >lines warn of a "meltdown expected."
> >Mann told British newspapers the taxi had been
> fitted with  a music system
> >which allowed him to plug in his MP3 player and he
> had been  playing The 
> >Clash,
> >Procol Harum, Led Zeppelin and the Beatles to the 
> driver.
> >"He didn't like Led Zeppelin or The Clash but I
> don't think  there was any
> >need to tell the police," Mann told the Daily
> Mirror.
> >A Durham police spokeswoman said Mann had been
> released  after questioning 
> >--
> >but had missed his flight.
> >"The report was made with the best of intentions
> and we  wouldn't want to
> >discourage people from contacting us with genuine
> concerns,"  she said.
> 
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