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

[FLIGHT BRINGER]

You cant really turn it around to a race issue. I realise that if he was 
White then the driver would probably not of taken much notice, but he was 
the same color as the people who recently went on a bombing spree. But you 
cant label it as discrimination , during the IRA bombing campaigne people 
with Irish accents were looked upon with suspicion, not solely because they 
were irish, but because Irish people had been setting bombs off.
   But if the passenger hadn't have been singing songs which could have been 
seen as a threat then he wouldn't have been arrested. he was arrested for 
acting suspiciously, not because of his color. It was the same as the 
Brazilian bloke, they shot him because he resembled an Islamic terrorist, 
not because of his skin color .Although his skin color was the reason for  
him being under suspicion in the first place.
   The only way to address the issue would be to get more people from other 
communities to set bombs off and commit acts of terrorism.
    The unfortunate thing is that if a person from a group of people does 
something wrong then the whole group is looked upon with suspicion. I give 
the recent alleged death threats from a group of football supporters as an 
example. One person allegedly makes a threat and ALL of the supporters from 
that group are seen as potential death threat senders.
   So its nothing to do with racism.

  FLIGHTBRINGER




>From: dammit bleep <hawk044 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
>band!)"<gathering at misera.net>
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: RE: [kj] OT: Man held as terrorism suspect over punk song
>Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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>
>

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