I Wonder Which Airport Will ‘Randomly Search’ Me Next

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Haha, at least he doesn’t travel much… or does he?

— billyj · Nov 28, 06:39 PM · #

Go fuck your self. What in the fuck do you expect? I mean come on…you look like a fucking terrorist.

— sin nick · Nov 28, 08:25 PM · #

Yeah dude. Cause all those 9-11 hijackers had huge beards and turbans. Each and every one.

— Todd · Nov 28, 08:38 PM · #

Um, no, he looks like a Sikh.

— idiot · Nov 28, 08:38 PM · #

Yeah and 9-11 hijackers are the only terrorists. The only ones.

— Bob · Nov 28, 09:18 PM · #

Yeah 99% of the fucktard populace of this country can’t tell a Sikh from a Muslim

— NotAFucktard · Nov 28, 09:28 PM · #

Oh come on, racial profiling saves lives. Im glad cops ramdomly search black people and find pounds of crack on them.

— Terrorist · Nov 28, 09:31 PM · #

You shouldn’t have bombed Air India 182. Justice never forgets.

— peteris · Nov 28, 09:50 PM · #

I hate to admit it, but statistically, racial profiling works. Cry all you want but it saves lives. Maybe you would be less concerned about waiting around for a few extra minutes at airports if you were less selfish? Is 5 minutes of your time worth preventing a bomb detonating on a plane some day? I’m also aware that you, being a Sikh, don’t represent the typical terrorist mould – perhaps some airport staff need to be briefed on the symbolism of the turbin. Either way, complaining that a few extra minutes out of your day isn’t worth potentially saving lives is disappointing (if this is the message you’re portraying).

— Bob · Nov 28, 09:51 PM · #

Despite the govt.‘s emphatic denial, racial-profiling is a fact of life but here it is a case of outright ignorance and stupidity.

Why someone wearing a turban has been deemed to be of the Islamic faith, which is the only reason this guy’s been pulled over so many times, is beyond me. In New York, there have been several deaths of Sikhs thought to have been killed ostensibly for wearing a turban in the perpetrators’ seeming belief that his victim was Muslim.

— Marc Savoy · Nov 28, 10:00 PM · #

Haha very funny. Man I’m not worried about terrorism inside the US at all, I don’t know why everyone is still so uppity.

— Daily Physics · Nov 28, 10:31 PM · #

Bob, what do you have against liberty? Are you really so scared that you want to chuck the Bill of Rights out the window? Obviously the terrorist attacks worked on you. We’re not supposed to harass people because of their race and religion in America.

— John · Nov 29, 12:07 AM · #

Its better to search white people. All they tend to carry are huge amounts of drug money.

— Rick Cain · Nov 29, 12:09 AM · #

@ notafuktard
and u imply all muslims are terrorists…
you people claim liberty, freedom and equality but ur all just a bunch of fkin sad racists!
your sorry asses aren’t worth gloating about..or worth replying to.

— princess leia · Nov 29, 12:51 AM · #

I think his point is not that he is being searched but the hypocrisy of telling us its 100% random.

— throbo · Nov 29, 02:18 AM · #

Um, what statistics say racial profiling works? I’ve only ever seen the opposite.

But maybe you’re right… what, by the by, was the second worst terrorist attack in US history? Oh yeah, Oklahoma City. We better start racially profiling average white people too. Right?

— Statistician · Nov 29, 03:45 AM · #

To all the people saying racial profiling works: statistically, it does, but only when the officers are competent. The idiots at US airports clearly can’t tell a Sikh from a Muslim.

— Steve · Nov 29, 04:00 AM · #

Yep,
Racial profiling works like a charm.
Ask the Nazis.

— TonB · Nov 29, 04:19 AM · #

Racial profiling: obviously what’s going on

Religious Profiling: Would not be pulling in Sikhs and would be pulling in Muslims of non arab race. May have more effectiveness

Both to me are chilling, even though I am Pagan and of no organised belief system

This confusion doesn’t really happen in the UK, maybe because we have a more diverse and mixed ethnicity? Actually it may be due to the riots in the early 80s caused by the SUSS laws (the police stop and search powers that they have just been given back).

— Dave · Nov 29, 04:38 AM · #

Cause all terrorists are Muslim.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh

— Quick · Nov 29, 05:04 AM · #

…its a friggin t-shirt joke. relax.

— Dave · Nov 29, 05:20 AM · #

I know you are a Sikh. and I would still search every single Sikh getting on a plane. Why? The Kirpan. I have yet to find another religion that requires its followers to always be armed. If weapons are outlawed on planes they are outlawed for everyone. Yet Sikhs continually try to board with them. Maybe it is time to develop a new rule that lets you carry a picture of one or something?

— Tony · Nov 29, 06:11 AM · #

Your all a bunch of slack jawed f@ggots if you believe that Mustafa (pic) is a terrorist. Take what is happening in Mumbai. “Terrorists” dressed in civilian clothes, with soviet bought weapons are who perpetrated the crimes. Plus not a single one of the 9/11 hijackers wore a turban when they boarded those planes. Go Corellia.

— Han Solo · Nov 29, 06:36 AM · #

in after intelligent conversation.

— adam2z · Nov 29, 06:40 AM · #

in after tremendous amounts of sarcasm.

— adam2z · Nov 29, 06:40 AM · #

Racial profiling just helps terrorists know what NOT to look like… so no it doesn’t work at all.

— Obi Wan · Nov 29, 06:59 AM · #

Theodore Kaczynski was white. Racial profiling works great.

— Joe · Nov 29, 07:24 AM · #

got to admit that is pretty funny.

jess
www.privacy.de.tc

— John Wiper · Nov 29, 07:55 AM · #

He looks like a sikh you dipshits. If you can’t tell the difference between a sikh and a muslim, you should be enslaved and put to manual labor for the benefit of your betters.

— Jason · Nov 29, 07:58 AM · #

actually, racial profiling is a cyclicar phenomenon. If you pull over more black people than white people, of course you’re going to find more black people with drugs, and then more black people end up in jail. It’s not because black people do more drugs, it’s because they’re being searched more often because of racial profiling. Racial profiling promotes itself.

— Kelsey · Nov 29, 08:07 AM · #

What are you complaining about? If you have nothing to hide then there should be no problem. Being of Indian decent, I too get checked far more than my white and black coleages. Dosent bother me at all.

— Rob · Nov 29, 08:13 AM · #

Rob Nothing to hide nothing to fear is as far right/nazi statement there ever has been said … well if you’re happy all is well.

— Lewsut · Nov 29, 08:20 AM · #

Bob:

You couldn’t be any dumber if you were made entirely out of plastic foam peanuts.

Racial profiling does not work — waay too many false positives, rendering the entire exercise useless. What you want is behavioral profiling. But don’t take my word for it, take it from one of the foremost security experts on the planet.

Also, look here.

ps: you are dumb. I know I already said that, but it feels good to say it again (because it is so true).

— boojit · Nov 29, 08:26 AM · #

@ Tony:
“The Kirpan. I have yet to find another religion that requires its followers to always be armed.”

I believe the other religion is that of worshiping the US Constitution’s Second Amendment. The intensity of love felt by gun lovers for their gun probably exceeds that of Sikhs for their knives.

— John Smith · Nov 29, 08:30 AM · #

Ya, looking at all the beards…

http://911review.com/myth/imgs/fbi_hijackers.jpg

Dumb fucks

— Dumbasses · Nov 29, 08:40 AM · #

LOL. He’s Sihk, not muslim, fools.

— George mcCumiskey · Nov 29, 08:51 AM · #

T-Shirt = funny
People taking it too seriously = Dopes

Who wants a chill pill?

— Joey-Jojo-Junior-Shabadoo · Nov 29, 08:58 AM · #

If he wants to stop being searched, he should take off the turban, shave off his beard, and stop pretending his bippity bop false religion is worth it.

— Vespera · Nov 29, 08:59 AM · #

My Space WHO I’D LIKE TO MEET SECTION:
This Guy!!!!

— Sarah Jane · Nov 29, 09:10 AM · #

Bippity bop false religion?

Is that something like a bippity bop round circle?

— Brunny · Nov 29, 09:32 AM · #

You know what’s funny? Those terrorists in Bombay would have walked right past any racial profile these people did.

— Roshan · Nov 29, 09:38 AM · #

“I hate to admit it, but statistically, racial profiling works.”

No, it doesn’t. The only person to try and carry out a terrorist attack on an airplane in the US since 9/11 was Richard Reid, an Englishman and the son of a white woman and a Jamaican male. PROFILE THAT.

— Bob? More like FOB · Nov 29, 09:54 AM · #

Most of the long-haul truckers from India I saw in southern Nepal were Sikhs, but that was right after Indira Gandhi’s assassination back in the 80s – she was killed by two bodyguards, both of them Sikhs. The truckers had to cross over to Nepal to save themselves and the livelihoods. This shows that there are valid reasons for wanting to cross borders unhindered and that Sikhs are accustomed to long distance travel. And just like most any other category of people, some of them kill.

Still, I’ve seen lots of Sikh police officers in the UK.

Wearing a turban doesn’t make anyone a terrorist (or even a Muslim – the Sikhs have their own religion) and should be zero cause for suspicion.

— Darrel · Nov 29, 10:00 AM · #

Sorry that happens to you, and I’m even more sorry you have to put up with the ignorant dumbshits who post their hate online. God bless you.

— BAM · Nov 29, 10:01 AM · #

To the people that think random searches are a good idea:
The ends do NOT justify the means, nor do they work. Giving up our liberty to ensure our safety merely loses our libery and doesn’t make us safer. People that believe it does are wrong.

Specifically in this case, a real terrorist will use every trick he can to not look like a terrorist. It’s true ignorance on the part of people to assume a turban means terrorist.

— Jim · Nov 29, 10:26 AM · #

It’s funny, you assholes on the internet bitch about racial profiling, but then every few weeks I read news stories where you same assholes giggle-snort about how stupid TSA is for screening someone you felt obviously wasn’t (some kid or old woman). Make up your fucking minds, you can’t have it both ways. Everyone is treated equally, or they are not.

— Me · Nov 29, 10:36 AM · #

Stop bitching about the U.S. security measures and get yourself involved in ending these assholes who look like you from blowing shit up all the time. As long as people that look like you keep blowing shit up, I will continue to assume you are more likely to blow something up than non-terrorist-looking-mother-fuckers. Yeah, racism sucks. I’ll happily search your fucking ass a hundred times over. You’re bitching and doing nothing to stop the real terrorists is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

— Me · Nov 29, 10:40 AM · #

To #47 – a person with abnormal mannerisms should be more likely to be searched. Someone with excessive, exaggerated aggression (such as yourself) is more likely to be searched.

Racial profiling works but they don’t draw the line there. Humans are not equal but we deserve the same rights. Unfortunately, your ignorance perpetuates the negative stereotypes of Americans which is why the rest of the world views Americans as pompous assholes with no heart. You kill for patriotism, protect for patriotism, judge for patriotism – you all fear what you don’t understand and can’t control. Is it any wonder why terrorists hit the most arrogant country in the world? (It’s a big world and you guys making it to the top is not something to be proud of). You’re not all bad but you’re not helping your case.

— Natasha · Nov 29, 11:03 AM · #

The following statement is true…That dude looks like a terrorist.
In America we consider any radical group from the middle east a terrorist group. He looks like hes from the middle east, therefore he looks like a terrorist. Or at least the media interpretation of one. Lets not be oversensitive people.

— pc · Nov 29, 11:04 AM · #

Unreal…Americans are SO racist. I can’t believe these comments. You still wonder why people think you’re scum? Well…read these comments, and if you still think the whole world should be like you…then we’re all fucked.

— Wow... · Nov 29, 11:17 AM · #

Forget all this terrorism talk. Let’s just tak about that watch he has on. That band looks sick, yo!

— Ryan · Nov 29, 11:33 AM · #

kool t shirt, man!

— peeps · Nov 29, 11:48 AM · #

i would rather a billion people died at the hands of an obvious muslim than a billion “looks like terrorists” have to be hassled like that. and i’m serious.

— stuart · Nov 29, 11:56 AM · #

Yeah, all terrorist are brown guys with beards. Yeah get them all, hold it wait. What about this guy. Pretty sure he was a terrorist and he targeted little kids tor.

Timothy James McVeigh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh

Oh Crap, now everyone needs to be randomly search.
dan

— dan · Nov 29, 12:19 PM · #

Actually, Americans are the most brutal terrorists on the face of the Earth. Let’s go destroy entire countries in order to steal their oil….

Let’s bomb innocent people because 1 out of 10,000 of them might be a threat, even though they could never afford a plane ticket to come to the US and kill us.

Americans have done a lot of horrendous shit in the name of…ummm….oil. Well, I guess that’s much more noble than doing in the name of Allah or any other God or religion, isn’t it?

You should all be proud of yourselves…

— Truth · Nov 29, 12:30 PM · #

You Americans are despicable…You claim the title of the Huge Fucking Grand Example for Humankind but, in the end, racism is alright, torturing is alright, throwing away habeas corpus is alright, anything – anything goes – to keep you fat white asses kinda of smug and alienated – and that includes harasssing people of different color and religion. Just as long as it’s not your white ass, anything goes.

Do you realize you make a mockery of what your nation’s founders wanted and stood for?

— jj · Nov 29, 01:19 PM · #

I’m a 6’1” red-headed Irish white guy. I’m randomly searched every time I try to enter a federal building because of that stupid bitch, Timothy McVeigh.

— Big Red · Nov 29, 01:31 PM · #

Cause all terrorists are terrorists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fighter

— gabe · Nov 29, 01:40 PM · #

I’ve been to the U.S.A, and I felt like I was amongst the most xenophobic people in the world. I have traveled to many countries but my experience in the U.S. was bad enough that I’ll probably never go back there. I personally am white. Hell, I’m so white that you can find albinos that have more tan than me, but since my ID is not issued by the U.S. government I was taken aside at every checkpoint, I had to log into my email account and let customs read through it just to be let in. And I come from a country that has a bilateral agreement with the U.S. government regarding three month tourist visas. I wish every country would mandate that U.S. citizens entering their country would have to go through the same ridiculous and rigorous security checks… No wonder the U.S. is being called the United States of Assholes.

— Axel Thor · Nov 29, 01:56 PM · #

hahaha
great shirt and picture.
made my day. thank you.

— hannah · Nov 29, 03:25 PM · #

>You shouldn’t have bombed Air India 182.

“You” shouldn’t have slaughtered the Native Americans.

— Xofis · Nov 29, 03:36 PM · #

The only reason statistics show that racial profiling works, is because of the nature of it. If you pull aside more black people than white, of course you’ll find more drugs on black people, ‘cause they’re the only people you searched. It doesn’t mean the white people don;t have drugs, it just means they aren’t caught.

— Robyn · Nov 29, 06:46 PM · #

You have been brainwashed by the goverment and the news, 9-11 was an inside job. You are more likely to get truck by a lighting then of a terrorist attacks.

— Arni · Nov 29, 08:44 PM · #

I think we can all agree on one thing. U.S.A got what they deserved on 9/11.

— Joseph · Nov 30, 12:49 PM · #

The people of the U.S.A didn’t deserve anything, it should’ve been the Pentagon and White House that got destroyed not the average American at work. Wonder why no C.E.O’s or important corporate executives were killed in the twin tower attacks? Those dirty fucks were hiding in a hole somewhere down in the dirty south.

— a canuck · Nov 30, 08:58 PM · #

Look.
Racial profiling is wrong, period. The USA is a melting pot, and we have a substantially diverse population to prove it.
1- That guy is a sikh (i hope i spelled that correctly)
2- Racial profiling is stupid and clearly doesn’t work. Look what happened in mumbai!
3- Ummmm whoever THE FUCK SAID THAT THE US DESERVED WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11 SHOULD FUCKING DIE. I knew someone who died in the world trade center, and NOBODY deserves that. What did we, the American people, do to anyone? If you have to attack us, attack our military. That’s what they’re paid for.
4- This picture is hilarious
5- I am saddened that non-Americans hate us so much. I have many friends from many parts of the world, and I harbor no xenophobic feelings at all. Please stop assuming we’re all gun-toting texas douche-bags.

— Here's the deal: · Dec 1, 10:14 AM · #

Well said, the person just above my comment (#66)…We can’t just generalize (maybe in some cases we can)…
In all, a hilarious depiction of what you have to go through…So people, please don’t get worked up over it…
Any kind of discrimination should be avoided anyways, no matter what…
And no innocent person deserves to die..

— JayC · Dec 3, 03:09 AM · #

i find it immensely amusing that somehow these comments have transformed from racially profiling in America to racially profiling Americans themselves. How transparent you all are.

— Simon · Dec 3, 05:03 PM · #

dude. it’s a JOKE. he’s not angry about it or anything. it’s just funny… kind of poking fun at his own race. don’t freak out about it.

shit.

— uh. · Dec 4, 01:04 PM · #

do you ever wander why terrorists are terrorist… it all because of racism… because of religion its just stupid i dont give a shit what god or gods or what ever people believe in… for my concern these wars and this terrorism is nothing but ignorance…

— Icelander · Dec 4, 03:00 PM · #

Just because some members of our government and population are racist and consider liberty unimportant doesn’t mean all Americans do.

It’s the conservative, Bush-Cheney kind of crowd that thinks this way. These people, although vocal and talented at causing enough fear to push many aspects of their agenda on the rest of the country, are not indicative of America as a whole. Please keep in mind that we have just elected a very liberal black man as leader of our country. We’re not as racist as you think.

I’m an American and I don’t support racial profiling or the infringement of civil liberties. I have nothing against people of other races, religions, ethnicities, or nationalities. It makes me a bit sad that others assume such things about all Americans.

However, few of you probably have as negative of an opinion of America as I, who lives here, do. But we’re trying.

I’m sorry for my fellow Americans.

— caiti · Dec 6, 02:49 PM · #

This would be funny if it wasn’t for the fact that nobody actually searches people with turbans and beards at the airport. They’re too afraid of being accused of racial profiling. They randomly search old white ladies and 7 year old kids instead. That way nobody can call them racist. Clearly this makes airport security far superior to what it was 8 years ago.

— John · Dec 10, 02:57 AM · #

People don’t realize the difference between Sikh turbans and Muslim turbans xD.

— Jonathan · Mar 8, 02:38 PM · #