September 03, 2007
SAN DIEGO – A conflict between passengers at Lindbergh Field Tuesday night caused the overnight delay of an American Airlines flight headed to Chicago.
Flight 590 was scheduled to depart at 11 p.m. for Chicago O'Hare International Airport but was rescheduled for Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. after some kind of dispute among customers started at the gate and continued onto the plane, said American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner.
While Wagner said it is the airlines policy not to disclose any information about their passengers, televised reports claimed that the incident involved a group of six to seven Iraqi Americans and another passenger who was apparently uncomfortable that the men were speaking in Arabic.
Not only does the article make my face hurt, but the wingnutty racist comments on the latter part of the page are painful. Some people are bitching that the passengers shouldn't have been speaking Arabic, which is...moronic. I'd love to see how these waterheaded racist dolts would react if they were in a foreign country and got shit from people for speaking English.
A lot of them are also stating that profiling is necessary and good. Fuck that. If a foreign country started profiling all Americans as warmongering idiots and refused to allow us to speak English, we'd be furious.
Fuck you and your double-standards, America.
Posted by Jake at September 3, 2007 03:08 AM
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