Reply #11: Off on a tangent about airports here...

[Violet_Crumble]

I've experienced it personally, being grabbed at the airport, publicly humiliated and felt-up, getting wanded with my feet up in the air in view of hundreds of people.

I think security in US airports must be incredibly nasty. Yours isn't the first story I've heard about being pulled up like that. The Iranian-Australian son-in-law of one of my work colleagues was treated pretty badly by airport security when they were in the US last year. Makes me glad this novice at air travel managed to accidently slip through security (they had to chase me to get me back through the machine I'd gotten past) here in Australia and not the US. The security guy who walked me back to where I needed to be told me I was lucky I hadn't done what I did in a US airport or the reaction would have been much less low-key :)

Back to what yr post was about:

What makes me ill people saying it's OK to trash Jews BECAUSE THEY ARE UPSET ABOUT BIGOTRY TOWARD ISLAM

I agree and it works both ways. Not that I see people actually come out and saying it's okay to trash one group for that reason, but more along the lines of making justifications for bigotry towards one group because that group is supposedly violent and full of hate. None of them seem to realise they're just as bad as what they rail against....

Violet...