Student arrested for having arabic language flash card

[Troublco]

Person of interest, maybe. Cuffed and stuffed? WTF?

Apparently you can do that if you don't look like a Muslim Male between the ages of 17 and 45. But otherwise, profiling is a sin.

[SA Friday]

There's a difference between profiling and generalizations. Unfortunately, most of people in this country view both as profiling.

The most succeptable category of people in America to be victimized by violent crime are black males ages 16-25. That's a generalization.

Black people are criminals, so should be pulled over when driving through white neighborhoods. That's profiling.

[Bailey Guns]

Just my opinion, but...being arrested for this and placed in handcuffs for two hours is not defensible unless there is a whole lot of information left out of the article.

I hope a court snaps it off in the ass of the TSA and FBI. I'll gladly see my tax dollars going to pay for the abuse of this person's constitutional rights.

If they were suspicious, what's wrong with simply pulling the guy aside and asking the questions needed to determine why he had those things. Should've been able to do that in less than 5 minutes.

I find it amazing a real terrorist carrying explosives can get on a plane bound for the US with little to no trouble at all, even after the gov't has been warned about him, and damn near bring down an airliner over a US city because of the ineptitude of various federal agencies charged with keeping us safe. But they jack this guy up for 4 hours because of some flashcards?

How does this sort of behavior make us safer?

[Eow]

Just my opinion, but...being arrested for this and placed in handcuffs for two hours is not defensible unless there is a whole lot of information left out of the article.

I hope a court snaps it off in the ass of the TSA and FBI. I'll gladly see my tax dollars going to pay for the abuse of this person's constitutional rights.

If they were suspicious, what's wrong with simply pulling the guy aside and asking the questions needed to determine why he had those things. Should've been able to do that in less than 5 minutes.

I find it amazing a real terrorist carrying explosives can get on a plane bound for the US with little to no trouble at all, even after the gov't has been warned about him, and damn near bring down an airliner over a US city because of the ineptitude of various federal agencies charged with keeping us safe. But they jack this guy up for 4 hours because of some flashcards?

How does this sort of behavior make us safer?

Very well said Bailey. I could not agree with you more.

[BadShot]

I have to agree with Bailey and EoW and really couldn't have said it much better. What is more disconcerting is the response of those who find this acceptable in any fashion.

So are we to subject ourselves to hiding our interest or study material just because we're utilizing public conveyances? Are we to simply cow down to the TSA (a joke of a security apparatus to start with) or any other "law enforcement" entity?

All the while we, willingly engage in the hastening the deterioration of our rights and liberties because some $8.50 an hour high school grad failed to engage the logic train.

Not I, sorry.. I hope this guy gets enough out of the settlement, and oh yeah he's gonna get one, to pay for all of his continued education. I also hope that he see's that the system if fallible and that by joining the Foreign Service he has a chance to make a change in addition to the financial bitch slap he's going to hit the FBI and TSA with.

[Irving]

I feel like if I wanted some reading on a plane, I wouldn't bring a book about how to make home made bombs. But, if I wanted to study school work, I'd bring whatever reading materials were relevant. It is a thin line. My biggest concern is how they found the flash cards to begin with.