Muhammad Ali Son Says He Was Again Questioned at Airport

[Gandalf]

Some of the attitudes in this thread seem peculiar to say the least. For a nation supposedly all about 'freedom', it doesn't seem to be a very free or just place and you have people almost cheering it on. Then people say 'Well, unless you live here, you cannot comment'. The truth is, I honestly wouldn't want to go to a place that treats people like that and seemingly more people feel the same way going on the tourist numbers. I genuinely do enjoy freedom and being left to my own devices, to be able to move around without being hassled or persecuted. It's wrong that this bloke keeps getting detained and what makes it worse is that ordinary people end up saying 'Good'. Terrible things happen when good people say nothing, or worse of all encourage it thus giving the state even greater hubris. There was a writer from New Zealand who had the same thing happen to her. She has been to the states dozens of times, yet was put through hours of stress. She won't return, just an ordinary decent woman.

[brocktonblockbust]

Oh get the violinsTony

[Gandalf]

So you agree with harrassing a well known children's author for 6 hours with no good reason to the point that she gets so distraught she doubts she will ever go there again? What's the point? What's the point of harrassing Ali's son? This isn't keeping anyone safe. It is wasting a broke nations resources and in turn driving down tourism which in turn means even less people buying your goods and services. It's not how greatness is restored. Though it is a good way to get extremists frothing at the mouth saying 'Precisely'. You were agaist all this TSA nonsense starting dozens of threads on how they had gone too far. Guess you don't mind anymore.

[Gandalf]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ncel-us-travel

Another story. Gotta keep those terrorists out, eh?

[walrus]

Would anyone be surprised if it was found Ali's son had ties to terrorist groups.

[brocktonblockbust]

Would anyone be surprised if it was found Ali's son had ties to terrorist groups.

No I wouldn't be surprised at all. Gandalf seems to have lost the plot. I myself was held up for 3 hours at JFK International Airport in New York City in 2008 on my way back from Guyana in South America period as inconvenient as it was I was glad they were doing their job. Getting off thinks it's the end of the world because somebody was inconvenience for a few hours.

[Gandalf]

Would anyone be surprised if it was found Ali's son had ties to terrorist groups.

No I wouldn't be surprised at all. Gandalf seems to have lost the plot. I myself was held up for 3 hours at JFK International Airport in New York City in 2008 on my way back from Guyana in South America period as inconvenient as it was I was glad they were doing their job. Getting off thinks it's the end of the world because somebody was inconvenience for a few hours.

It would be a pretty rotten thing to have your phone hacked and be interrogated for several hours after a 12 hour flight. The key is to avoid countries that behave in such a manner. Nobody else is experiencing terrorism because they don't hack phones and interrogate people for several hours. You are a hypocrite Brock. I am not sure you have a self beyond arguing the opposite of what another person says. You hold almost opposite views 6 months at a time.