Cabbie In England Helps Nab A Wanted Man!

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Let me get this straight: A fellow in England named Harraj Mann is seated in the back of a taxi on his way to the airport. He’s listening to music, and decides to sing along to the Clash’s 1979 hit “London Calling.” A short while later, Mann is escorted from his flight by authorities and interrogated for three hours. All because the song’s lyrics make vague reference to “battle” and “war” – and because, we have to assume, Harraj Mann is of Middle or Near Eastern descent.
As everyone knows, any jihadi would, in preparation for imminent martyrdom, be sure to preannounce his mission by singing aloud in the back of a taxi. And he wouldn’t be wailing out some verse from the Quran; he’d be crooning along to the Clash.

Ask the pilot - Salon.com

Why are brits so effing dumb? :hehe:

[Faisal]

Re: Cabbie In England Helps Nab A Wanted Man!

Paranoia. What else...

To be fair, it can happen here in the US as well. Idher ke logoN ne bhi buhat karnamay kiyay hein.

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Re: Cabbie In England Helps Nab A Wanted Man!

The price of liberty, observed Thomas Jefferson, is eternal vigilance. What he hadn’t banked on is that the price of eternal vigilance seems to entail a slow descent into lunatic paranoia. That being said, both of these overreactions took place in England, not the United States. We Americans like to think our own government, armed with the Patriot Act and the smiling subservience of its populace, has cornered the market on domestic surveillance and the erosion of civil liberties. It’s Britain, however, that has set the bar for privacy invasion. On top of the alleged communications monitoring, hundreds of thousands of closed-circuit cameras monitor the activities of British citizens and their vehicles. The average London commuter is covertly videotaped anywhere from 10 to 300 times daily.

http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/04/28/askthepilot183/index1.html

*mulha’izaa karain.

*I tell ya, those brits can longer have any affairs if a family member in in the survaillance squad.