Man wins thousands after airline incident

In 2006, a man trying to fly out of New York was arbitrarily barred from a JetBlue flight because of his ethnicity and because he wore a t-shirt that said "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic.

The event was yet another of many arbitrary incidents like this in recent years.

Now the man has received a $240,000 settlement from JetBlue and the TSA for the harassment he suffered.

Good. It's nice to see Bush's TSA paying for its discrimination. If you keep hitting the TSA and Corporate America in the wallet, maybe someday they'll mend their ways.

The irony is that the airline and the TSA harassed the man partly because of the saying on his shirt. "We Will Not Be Silent" was a slogan of a resistance movement that opposed the regime in Nazi Germany. It was designed to inspire dissent against a corrupt dictatorship.

It speaks volumes about the Bush regime that it gets so up in arms about an anti-Nazi slogan.

(Source: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-01-05-jetblue-tsa-settlement_N.htm)