Thanks for an entertaining 4 pages of reading fellas.....

[b]I knew there was a reason I haven't been on a plane since 1982.[/b]

Mike

Nice dodge of the issue Adam_White.

Don't bother to respond, I know that you were assuming that your vision of the guy was correct, and it turns out that it's not....

I'm not afraid of flying.  I am, like W-G, totally intolerant of horseshit like this...which is why I stay out of the situation.  It's GONNA escalate.

Amen Quietshootr

Since when is it a crime to be a Nazi or a White Supremacist?  Last time I checked, it wasn't.

What am I dodging now?

I said "friends" - in quotes.  You said he was not your friend, just an acquaintence.  Well, I didn't know exactly what term to use - you said you knew him, you WERE defending him, so hence "friends" IN FREAKIN' QUOTES.

As for the declaration thing - I never once stated I knew for sure, I specifically worded it as to being how I always understood it - and what I have always done.  Someone corrected me, and then that issue was resolved.

As for his appearance?  I said, "I can only imagine how he was dressed" you said he would have been dressed preppy-like.  OK, I have no reason to doubt that - so what's the big deal?  It still doesn't change the basic facts of the event.

Perhaps the race thing?  If it wasn't you, than I must have you mistaken for someone else - I must have been involved in a race thread around the smae time as the Lynch thread so I remembered your name from it.

I honestly can't find what issue you are waiting for feedback from me on.  I made it more than clear that the simple fact that he was carrying firearms was not the reason for his troubles.  There was a long chain of events and circumstances involved.  People here are making it sound as if checking your weapons at a counter is a guarantee of getting arrested by "Jack Booted Thugs."  They are going off on the TSA when it was not the TSA's decision or authority to make the arrest.

I will state again, legal or illegal, you put enough items together, you will fit a profile.  He practiced poor judgement, and seemed to have had a case of bad luck with the T-shirt - which didn't help anything.