Vigilante Pat Down - The New Airport Security

So. This is great. A plane from Malaga to Manchester is held up because there were two Asians on board. But not just two Asians. Two Asians on board who were acting suspiciously. And who deemed their actions suspicious I hear you ask? Why, the other passengers on board the plane. Of course, all these other passengers were experts in the profiling of terrorists. Of course they were. There's no other reason for it. I mean, it's not like a knee jerk reaction to ANYONE of a Middle Eastern appearance being ANYWHERE near a plane, tube or bus.

I just love this. How were they acting suspiciously? They were looking nervous, speaking Arabic and checking their watches all the time. This just cracks me up! HONESTLY! From the land of the impatient, we have a few pots calling the kettle black here. From the land where the everyday tube passenger runs for a train, when one comes every 2 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!! And they (those nasty suspicious looking Pakistani's), are called suspicious? I guess, it's fine to run for a tube..........UNLESS YOU'RE BRAZILIAN.

And don't get me started on the speaking Arabic part. It's sheer stupidity. How about the fact that all but a handful of Asian people are just as worried as the non-Asian community that we are vulnerable to terrorism.

How about, that the biggest terrorist attack in the USA, prior to 9/11, was committed by a white American (Timothy McVeigh).

It's so easy to label a group. To create an us and them mentality. A good and bad. A cowboys and Indians bullshit outlook. The actual picture is, save for a few fanatics, (I refrain from saying religious fanatics as these terrorists are a slight on the true muslim community) we are all in this together.

From what I can tell, because all the other passengers kicked up a stink, the plane was prohibited from taking off and the two men were taken into custody. This, all because of their appearance? This kind of heightened public awareness and subsequent vigilantism is a hindrance to any kind of multicultural harmony. How sad for us all, for I'm afraid that this is only just the beginning.