British travelers stage "mutiny" because two Asians were on plane

[Contrary1]

Tell me, can people get any more stupid? I wouldn't be surprised if Bush & Co. planted "suspicious" travelers on domestic flights to keep the Murkin voters in fear for their lives until election time.

Mutiny on Flight 613
Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane

"British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.

The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.

Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.

<snip>

'There was no fuss or panic'

Soon afterwards, the aircraft was cleared while police did a thorough security sweep. Nothing was found and the plane took off - three hours late and without the two men on board..."


:eyes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401419&in_page_id=1770

[TomInTib]

1. I wish they had tossed the chickenshits and flown with the two guys

and the balance of the rational passengers.

Western Society has watched way too much television.

[niyad]

6. wasn't there a story (or maybe a joke) about something like this? a guy

was making horridly racist remarks about another passenger, and insisted that he not have to be seated by this person. the flight attendant very calmly agreed, and showed the OTHER passenger into first class. now THAT was a first class response!!

[TomInTib]

2. No 'fuss or panic'?

Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.

I suppose it depends on one's definition of 'fuss or panic'.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Note to the Brits...

You're as fucking stupid as Americans are.

:spank:

[Greeby]

5. Oh aye

But not half as stupid as someone who believes what appears in the Daily Mail, the right-wing mouth-frother's paper of choice

[enlightenment]

10. Might it be time for another primer on the political variety of

UK newspapers, you think . . .?

[niyad]

4. do you suppose any of those morans would know the difference between

arabic and chinese?

[Kickoutthejams23]

9. Well since many if not most Muslims live in South Asia....

I would think that if they were racist morons they at least know that Asian doesn't always mean Chinese. It can mean Indonesian or Pakistani where the last weeks group of bombers was originally from. If your going to call other people morons at least get a map first. Oh and for the the record yeah they acted like morons.... :)

[niyad]

13. the spelling of moran was deliberate--you should have been around DU

long enough to understand that. and it is interesting that you assume that I don't know the map of asia--all because I only mentioned chinese. I didn't realize that YOU would require that I mention other languages as well in making my point. and by the way, it's YOU'RE (as in YOU ARE) not YOUR (as in a possessive). see, two can play your silly little game.

[Kickoutthejams23]

17. I apologize

It is common for people to think that Muslims live in the Middle east and not in Asia. As you can see from my post count I'm kinda new so I hope your will bear with my stumbles. It is like people who think Iranians are Arabs. That kind of stuff is admittedly a pet peeve of mine.

[niyad]

21. not a problem. and welcome to DU by the way. how are things there in

scientologyville?

[DRoseDARs]

7. Here's a link to the LBN thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2465416&mesg_id=2465416

[Stinky The Clown]

8. So what happened to these two guys?

Did they have to walk back to Manchester from the Costa del Sol? I bet that Channel crossing would be a bitch.

What the fuck is WRONG with people??????

[Chipper Chat]

12. I'd love it if it turned out these two men were doctors

headed for Mississippi to work on children with cancer.

[rodeodance]

14. the two men were cleared and got on another flight.

Monarch said last night: "The captain was concerned about the security surrounding the two gentlemen on the aircraft and the decision was taken to remove them from the flight for further security checks.

"The two passengers offloaded from the flight were later cleared by airport security and rebooked to travel back to Manchester on a later flight."

A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Malaga said: "These men had aroused suspicion because of their appearance and the fact that they were speaking in a foreign language thought to be an Arabic language, and the pilot was refusing to take off until they were escorted off the plane."

[NYC]

19. An article I read said the airline put them up in a hotel,

and they flew to Manchester on another flight.

[rodeodance]

11. my gawd. is this for real?

[rodeodance]

15. "For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of t

.....Mr Schofield, 40, an area sales manager, said: "When the men were taken off they didn't argue or say a word. They just picked up their coats and obeyed the police. They seemed resigned to the fact they were under suspicion.

"The captain and crew were very apologetic when we were asked to evacuate the plane for the security search. But there was no dissent.

"While we were waiting, everyone agreed the men looked dodgy. Some passengers were very panicky and in tears. There was a lot of talking about terrorists."

Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally.

"For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense."

[rodeodance]

16. there have been other insidents like this one:

Websites used by pilots and cabin crew were yesterday reporting further incidents. In one, two British women with young children on another flight from Spain complained about flying with a bearded Muslim even though he had been security-checked twice before boarding.

[JI7]

18. that explains why Blair is there

[CJCRANE]

20. British tabloid induced hysteria (nt)

[SweetLeftFoot]

22. Hmmmm

You have snipped the bit about the guys wearing bulky jackets despite the heat.

While I deplore this fear mondering and xenophobia, guys wearing heavy jackets in 30+ heat and muttering in Arabic might freak me out a bit too.

[Contrary1]

23. Muttering?

"...overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic."

"Some of the older children, who had seen the terror alert on television, were starting to mutter things like, 'Those two look like they're bombers.'

And these guys didn't go through the screening process like everyone else did? Seems like fear is not just for Repubs anymore.

[Tyo]

24. Just goes to show ya.....

how fragile it all is. When people are scared they'll do and accept things that would appall them under normal circumstances. Gotta hand it to the Rethugs. The whole fear thing has worked brilliantly for them.

[TheWatcher]

25. If there is a HINT of Truth to this

What a planet of pant-shitting, cowardly monsters we are all becoming.

Peeing all over ourselves and flailing about like patrons trapped in a burning theater at the slightest sign of our own shadow.

For the Love of whatever Entity everyone believes in, is THIS how you want to spend the rest of your life, in a world like this?

HONESTLY?

People, this has got to stop.

We CANNOT live like this.

We shouldn't be EXPECTED to live like this.

We should not ACCEPT living like this.

[windbreeze]

26. Pathetic, isn't it???

and for those who say the terrorists are winning, when incidents like this happen....they are right...but there's just one thing they have wrong...and that is, who they perceive the real "terrorists" to be...
windbreeze