Yet Another Flying While Brown Incident

More than one person from the Middle East on the same plane on Thanksgiving?  Time for the security apparatus!

Several students from the United Arab Emirates were removed from a flight from Charlotte to Washington on Thursday after the pilot alerted airport police to a security concern.


About 5 p.m., the pilot of U.S. Airways Flight 1768 asked officers to assist in removing a group of people from the plane because of a "perceived security concern," according to a statement Friday from the federal Transportation Security Administration. The pilot pointed out the concern "out of an abundance of caution," a U.S. Airways spokeswoman said Friday.

Several people taken off the plane told WJLA-TV in Washington that they were students and that they want an apology from U.S. Airways. WJLA reported that the students were asked where they were from and if they had military training.

A new flight crew was brought in and checked baggage was re-screened.

Local law enforcement and the TSA determined that the people taken off the plane were not a threat, the TSA statement said.

Really, Charlotte?  And you don't think the TSA maybe gave them extra scrutiny anyway before letting them on the plane in the first place?  Jesus wept.  Nope, gotta turn the plane around and recheck them because they might be Muslim death commandos.  Five hour delay...and of course nothing there.

Republicans sure have trained us well, pissing on command like that.  All our potential GOP overlords running for President Obama's job would call this a necessary component of our country's freedom and liberty.