British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny, refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
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And from (essentially) the same paper earlier in the week:
“The Government was warned today it risked alienating the Muslim community over reported plans to introduce airport security screening on ethnic and religious grounds.
“Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei said tougher checks based on ethnicity and religious background would create a new offence of ‘travelling whilst Asian’.”
Except it’s not the security services clamping down, it’s the passengers themselves. Surely if they’ve passed security checks (and let’s face it, they were probably stripped searched before being allowed in board because of the current terror alert level) then they’re safe to fly.
When i saw this story earlier today I really did want to find a brick wall and bash my head against it repeatedly.
Fear sells…
Fear sells newspapers, fear keeps governments in power, fear allows draconian measures to be enforced, fear keeps whole populations in check, this isn’t a new phenomenon, it just seems so much more insidious now, fear inducing rags like the Mail and Express pretty much jusitfy their existence by terrifying simpletons…