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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:11 PM
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Flight attendant fired: "Potential terrorist, made fun of Bush, ethnic."
COVINGTON, Ky. - A man who was fired as a flight attendant for Comair contends in a lawsuit that airline officials associated his "strong ethnic appearance" with possible terrorism.

Gilbert Knops, a legal alien of German citizenship and German-Dominican heritage, said a fellow flight attendant told Comair officials he was a potential terrorist. Knops said he was then wrongfully fired from his job with Comair, which is based at Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport in Hebron, Ky.

Knops said in the lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Covington, that he showed a cartoon critical of President Bush and a sticker ridiculing "support our troops" car magnets to fellow flight attendant Linda Brutzer during a November flight.

Knops said Brutzer may have been "offended by his lukewarm sense of nationalism" but remained cordial on a return flight...

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/12294357.htm
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:13 PM
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1. offended by his lukewarm sense of nationalism" but remained cordial
like it's any of his business how nationalistic someone is? :crazy:
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:18 PM
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4. somehow I missed "Cordial" being defined as "getting you fired"
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:27 PM
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7. I can help you understand...
these right-wing fuckers are so rabid, that "getting you fired" does appear to be quite "cordial" when they would prefer to have you sent to Gitmo. See how that works?
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patcox2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:31 PM
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8. Its as bad as calling the bus company to get the driver fired
Because he said "god bless you," and you resent people who proselytize.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 05:13 PM
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13. Only I'm betting the bus driver wouldn't be fired for that
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 07:48 PM
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14. yeah, that's EXACTLY like painting someone as a likely terrorist
sheesh.
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patcox2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:07 AM
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15. Its exactly like fucking with someone's livelihood.
Because you disagree with them politically. Its exactly a petty stool-pigeon snitch asshole thing to do. In both cases.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:15 PM
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2. Dumb twit Brutzer
When somone's political POV differs from yours: Call them a terrorist.

Scum.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:19 PM
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5. Oh of course
"I'm a uniter, not a divider." Yeah freakin right.
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MalibuChloe Donating Member (431 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:17 PM
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3. potential terrorist because he made fun of Bush?
well, then there are 50 million potential terrorists in the U.S. alone!

will we all fit in Guantanamo Bay?

:evilgrin:
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:21 PM
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6. no they are opening a franchise
Club Dead

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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:33 PM
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9. Disturbing is the "turn you in" attitude
now, where have I read about that stuff before?
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TerdlowSmedley Donating Member (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:39 PM
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10. East German Stasi, perhaps?
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newscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:52 PM
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11. Get used to it, we're at war!
Sarcasm, off.
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guntherconcept Donating Member (88 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:59 PM
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12. They suspected he was a terrorist...
They suspected he was a terrorist when he intentionally forced passengers to land with their trays NOT in the upright and locked position.
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