Does Tee Stand For Terrorist? NYC Student Stopped on Staten Island Ferry For Wearing T-Shirt Saying We Will Not Be Silent in Arabic
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Does Tee Stand For Terrorist?
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The Lone Gunmen
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It's New York. They are significantly less free there than in other parts of the country.
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The Lone Gunmen
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Honestly, I don't really care, because it's 3000 miles away.
It's New York, so there probably uptight about Arabic stuff there.
It's New York, so there probably uptight about Arabic stuff there.
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You betcha. Tee-shirts are such an obvious threat to national security that they must be stopped at all costs!
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If T-shirts are outlawed, only outlaws will have casual clothing to wear with their jeans ?
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You don't care because it's 3000 miles away? Can I then conclude that you wouldn't care if NY banned guns?
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Razi
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sure they're probably uptight, but that is not an excuse to trammel someone's freedom of expression. Wearing a tee shirt should not be considered a threat--unless it says something along the lines of, " I am wearing a bomb." Before long, we'll all be in red, white and blue jumpsuits.
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The Lone Gunmen
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But do you have a right to freedom of expression on someone else's private property?
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ElvisFan42
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No, so that would apply to the Jet Blue flight, but the Staten Island Ferry is public.
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actaully, tee stands for "Mr. T". Mr. T pitys da' fool who doesn't respect the constitution.
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Bad taste to wear something like that in New York after what happened on 9/11. But there are idiots everywhere.........
The main issue though is her right of free-speech (however asinine); she should'nt have been harrassed about the shirt on the public ferry.
The main issue though is her right of free-speech (however asinine); she should'nt have been harrassed about the shirt on the public ferry.
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Yusuf Evans
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Granted, authorities may be a bit biased towards anything and anyone dealing with the Arab world. That does not excuse them for trying to repress free speech. The First and Second Amendments are what makes our country different from most others; repressing either one of those and we are on a fast track into dangerous terrirtory.
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The Lone Gunmen
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Seriously, what is offensive about "We will not be silent"?
I guess you missed the whole Arabic thing.
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The Lone Gunmen
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Arabic is offensive to USAians? Nice....
Shouldn't people that want to wear shirts like that be sensitive to their audience?
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Arabic is not a terrorist language.
That sentance doesn't even make any sense! You can't have something in arabic script be banned just because its written in Arabic! Its insanity!
There's no 'sensitivity' involved here. Just overreactionary bigots with an ax to grind.
That sentance doesn't even make any sense! You can't have something in arabic script be banned just because its written in Arabic! Its insanity!
There's no 'sensitivity' involved here. Just overreactionary bigots with an ax to grind.
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