On 25-Aug-12 8:57 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk wrote:

> http://shirt.woot.com/plus/threat-level-doctorow-1

>From the above link, a story of someone who got tossed off a flight [1]
for wearing this t-shirt (this is the ostensible excuse for
racism/security theater of the most braindead kind).

I've asked this question before, but I am still bemused. Especially in
litigious America, how is this whole stinking mess not disappearing
beneath a torrent [2] of lawsuits? Yes, I am aware of the doctrine of
qualified immunity [3], and am still bemused.

Anyone?

Udhay

[1] http://boingboing.net/2012/08/21/delta-refuses-boarding-to-poop.html
[2] See what I did there?
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

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