Your point is rock-solid, Reg. 

Should she have known not to wear that to the airport? These days, probably, yeah, she maybe should have known better…

That’s my point.  Not that she dressed “purposefully” to cause a fuss, but that she dressed that way in the airport nowadays.  Bad planning.  There’s far too much information provided today that “should” deter people from sending up red flags.  Sheez! …I have a couple of Italian (American) friends with pure Italian looks who grease their asses before leaving for the airport pretty much every time nowadays ‘cause they WILL be (inappropriately) profiled & lead behind the curtain, guaranteed.  It’s a wrong, not a right, for them to be put through it, they should be able to travel comfortably (they shell out the bucks for it), but that’s the routine.  FUD invokes our want for security; many of us have been conditioned to covet it.   

What really made me sick today were all the people on the radio claiming they should have executed her right there in the airport…

That’s where the term wingnuts get’s it’s gusto.   I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it yet.  Wouldn’t doubt we have a Tiananmen Square coming in the next decade in the U.S.  So much of our best notions as a people are lost in the din, so lost that it’s gona take a quake of outrage……………………  Not too sure it’s in us anymore.  Far too many reasons to be hushed and compliant. 

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