Irony points + 1, 000, 000!

[-Gavin-]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8203696.stm

The Indian government has asked the United States to explain why a leading Bollywood film star was held for two hours at New York's Newark airport.
...
The actor, who is promoting a film on racial profiling, said he was stopped because he had a Muslim name.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

God I love my country!!

 

[Ermz]

Nice!

One thing I find odd is the presumption that some people should be exempt from profiling (however ludicrous) based on status. The article says:

Last month, America's Continental Airlines apologised to APJ Abdul Kalam amid outrage in India when it emerged that the former Indian president had been frisked and made to remove his shoes at Delhi airport in April.

Do politicians and movie stars somehow deserve a greater right to their privacy not being violated at airports? Being taken aside and questioned like a suspect is a terrible thing to happen to anyone, and the average person has as much right to be upset as any leading social figure.

I saw plenty of people getting frisked and their shoes removed at various airports when I flew overseas.

 

[-Gavin-]

I've been questioned and stuff before... LOTS of times all over the world and all i can say is i don't mind taking 10mins out of my life if it stops my ass getting blown up!

 

[plague_rider]

I've been questioned and stuff before... LOTS of times all over the world and all i can say is i don't mind taking 10mins out of my life if it stops my ass getting blown up!

snap, +100

 

[J.DavisNJ]

Man, New Jersey really gets the shaft. Newark is soooo in NJ and not NY. Carry on...

-Joe

 

[-Gavin-]

yeah and the airport ryanair calls Vienna is in Bratislava/Slovakia .

 

[J.DavisNJ]

yeah and the airport ryanair calls Vienna is in Bratislava/Slovakia .

Haha, gotta love that.

Granted, there is nothing glamorous about Newark (as I type from the homicide squad of the Prosecutor's office here , but the airport is the safest place you can be in Brick City.

-Joe