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

[Leigh Newton]

Hahahahahaha! 

"Um, you know what guys? Turns out I don't agree with
you and here's why..."

Wow, who would have guessed. 

--- 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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