AA sued for profiling

[Dont call me Shirley]

Pakistani couple sues airline over CA threat hoax
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The son of a Pakistani official who was assassinated by an Islamic extremist has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines after he and his wife were escorted from a plane in handcuffs in response to a telephone hijacking threat that turned out to be a hoax....
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/07/08/national/a101052D97.DTL


I wonder who did the alleged profiling and made the call to removed these people. AA or law enforcement?

 

[eolesen]

AA doesn't issue handcuffs to it's employees, so there's your first clue...

If they were on the TSA/FBI watchlist, then it's a regulatory matter, and not something in the airline's discretion to ignore.

 

[Buck]

AA doesn't issue handcuffs to it's employees, so there's your first clue...

If they were on the TSA/FBI watchlist, then it's a regulatory matter, and not something in the airline's discretion to ignore.

In the CNBC

The Lead APFA Flight Attendant stated that "when I first started, they issued white gloves, now the issue handcuffs.


Inside American Airlines A Week In The Life

 

[gizmo_sc]

Most airlines have some type of passenger restraints. Not handcuffs but nylon style. You get them at most police supply online stores...$150.00 for 100 very reasonable for what it is used for. Please see LINK :

http://www.theseegroup.com/modocunyrepo.html

 

[MCI transplant]

<_< ------- Subject: Fwd: Letter From An American Airlines Pilot, Very good Reading...

Open
Letter From An American Airlines
Pilot:
CANADIAN
COMMENT
APPEARS
AT THE
END OF THE ARTICLE AND IS
MEANINGFUL. THERE IS ALSO
SOME RECENTLY ADDED BRITISH
COMMENT.

This
pilot hit the nail right on the head in his open
letter.

The
paper stated that some Muslim doctor is saying
we are profiling him because he has been checked
three times while getting on an
airplane. The
following is a letter from a pilot.This well
spoken man, who is a pilot with American
Airlines, says what is in his heart,
beautifully....


If
you
truly believe in fair &
reasonable objectivity - Read, absorb and pass
this on.

............................................................

I've
been trying to say this since 911, but you worry
me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down
the streets of this country that I love, that your
color and culture still blended with the beautiful
human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you
don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it
worries me.

I notice you because I can't
help it anymore. People from your homelands,
professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and
killing my fellow citizens and our friends for
more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand
their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing
can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.


On September 11, ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked
four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats
of women in front of children and brutally stabbed
to death others. They took control of those planes
and crashed them into buildings, killing thousands
of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents,
elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches,
fearless public servants, and children's mothers.


The
Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed
as was most of the Arab world. So, I notice you
now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to
be consumed by the same rage, hate and prejudice
that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists
But I need your help. As a rational American,
trying to protect my country and family in an
irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to
tell the difference between you, and the
Arab/Muslim terrorist.

How do I
differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim
Americans and the Arab/Muslim terrorists in our
communities who are attending our schools,
enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities
under the protection of OUR constitution, while
they plot the next attack that will slaughter
these same good neighbors and children?


The events of September 11 changed the
answer. It is not my responsibility to determine
which of you embraces our great country, with ALL
of its religions, with ALL of its different
citizens, with all of its faults. It is time for
every Arab/Muslim in this country to determine it
for me.
I want to
know, I demand to know and I have a right to know,
whether or not you love America ... Do you pledge
allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly display it
in front of your house, or on your car? Do you
pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will
bless this nation; that He will protect it and let
it prosper? Or do you pray that Allah with destroy
it in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the
freedom that this nation affords? A freedom that
was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands
of patriots who gave their lives for this country?
Are you willing to preserve this freedom by also
paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love America
? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to
start letting ME know about it.

Your
Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding
the media at this time with hard facts on your
faith, and what hard actions you are taking as a
community and as a religion to protect the United
States of America . Please, no more benign
overtures of regret for the death of the innocent,
because I worry about who you regard as innocent.
No more benign overtures of condemnation for the
unprovoked attacks, because I worry about what is
unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more
sympathy; I am interested only in action. What
will you do for America - our great country - at
this time of crisis, at this time of war?


I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the
AMERICAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you
chanting 'Allah Bless America'. I want to see
young Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military. I
want to see a commitment of money, time and
emotion to the victims of this butchering and to
this nation as a whole.

The FBI has a list
of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding
the WTC attack. Many of these people live and
socialize right now in Muslim communities. You
know them.

You know
where they are. Hand them over to us, now! But I
have seen little even approaching this sort of
action. Instead I have seen an already closed and
secretive community close even tighter. You have
disappeared from the streets. You have posted
armed security guards at your facilities. You have
threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for
protection from reprisals.

The very few
Arab/Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in
the media were defensive and equivocating. They
seemed more concerned with making sure that the
United States proves who was responsible before
taking action. They seemed more concerned with
protecting their fellow Muslims from violence
directed towards them in the United States and
abroad than they did with supporting our country
and denouncing 'leaders' like Khadafi, Hussein,
Farrakhan, and Arafat.

If the true
teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace
and love for all people, then I want chapter and
verse from the Koran and statements from popular
Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if
the teachings in the Koran are good, pure, and
true, when your 'leaders' are teaching fanatical
interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance? It
matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge
numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the
teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a
degenerative form of the religion. A form that has
been demonstrated to us over and over again. A
form whose structure is built upon a foundation of
violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members
are recruited from the prisons around the world. A
form whose members (some as young as five years
old) are seen day after day, week in and week out,
year after year, marching in the streets around
the world, burning effigies of our presidents,
burning the American flag, shooting weapons into
the air. A form whose members convert from a
peaceful religion, only to take up arms against
the great United States of America, the country of
their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted,
that their traveling members refuse to show their
faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name
of Islam.

We will NEVER allow the attacks
of September 11, or any others for that matter, to
take away that which is so precious to us -our
rights under the greatest constitution in the
world. I want to know where every Arab Muslim in
this country stands and I think it is my right and
the right of every true citizen of this country to
demand it. A right paid for by the blood of
thousands of my brothers and sisters who died
protecting the very constitution that is
protecting you and your family.

I am
pleading with you to let me know. I want you here
as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow
American. But there can be no gray areas or
ambivalence regarding your allegiance,
and
it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand.
Until then, "YOU WORRY
ME!"
................................................................
CANADIAN
COMMENTS:

I totally agree with
this sentiment. I hope you will forget all about
the 'political correctness' mandate we've had
rammed down our throats, and see if this doesn't
ring true in your heart and mind. For Canada ,
with all the multiculturalism we've been told is
so important....why should we not, as Canadians,
expect that the millions of new people immigrating
to our country will show their love for our
country, their allegiance to our country, their
willingness to obey the laws of our country, and
acceptance that we are a Christian country? Just
because they are able to enjoy exercising their
own religion, they should not expect us to be
ashamed of ours. They knew Canada was a Christian
country when they came here. Why are we erasing
Christianity because immigrants who are unwilling
to adopt our way of life expect us to? There is
just too much insanity in the world, and we have
to start taking a stand.


I hope you will forward
this, so that others will feel they are not alone
if they are starting to feel the same.







BRITISH
COMMENTS:





At
last a clear non racist example of the
concerns that the vast majority of our Nations
population probably share. The pilot's letter
encapsulates all that is fair and just about
national pride and protection of one's national
culture. I fear it may be too late here in UK but
we too want our country back in the form that
attracted all these different cultures to come
here in the first place!! In all our conversations
with a wide range of friends and acquaintances we
have not met one that disagrees with our
own views. If only we all had the courage of our
convictions to pass this on, it is a statement
that should be accepted as the heart-felt feelings
of someone with honest commendable national pride.





THIS
IS TOO GOOD TO JUST READ AND DELETE -- LET'S
SATURATE NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, UK, EUROPE, USA,
CANADA AND THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD WITH THIS
ONE!