http://www.miamiherald.com/358/story/166383.html#
This is ridiculous! Are we now going to arrest people because they don't look right?! The last time that happend, it was Aryan race and concentration camps! Where the hell is this world going to!?
2007-07-11 06:25:43 · 15 answers · asked by Ymmo the Heathen 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For people saying I was slow: well gee, I have something called "life". I don't spend all day everyday online and checking news. I'm not from either US or UK.
2007-07-11 06:35:58 · update #1
Just for the record, I couldn't care less about Metallica. I did in the 80s when they actually played metal. For all I care, they can arrest him and put him in jail, and good riddance. I'm just shocked that apparently nowadays a wrong looking beard might be enough to get you in trouble. THAT is ridiculous. It would be equally ridiculous if it happened to John Smith the clerk. It's just that this case leaked into the public.
2007-07-11 06:39:20 · update #2
The world is going to hell, humans are way too paranoid and apparently "not looking right" is grounds for discrimination and suspicion.
2007-07-11 06:29:52 · answer #1 · answered by Mög T.H.E. Tormentor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I work on an Army Post. Recently, we were visited by the Inspector General for the Army National Guard for an inspection. Two members of his team were detained for over 2 hours because "We're supposed to stop anyone who looks like you" according to the guards at the gate. They came up with some lame excuse about their Common Access Cards so the inspector showed them both their Inspector General Team ID and their Retired Military IDs, but that did no good. If we can treat such distinguished guests and part of an ARMY Team this way, what can we get away with concerning Civilians?? It's a scary thought.
2007-07-11 13:31:17 · answer #2 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How can you blame the British for taking precautions, after all the bombings that they've had by those who wear greasy beards. If they failed to take precautions, and you were badly injured in a bombing, you'd be screaming that the police should have been suspicious of the guys with the greasy beards.
Just because this guy was a singer does not mean that everybody would instantly know him. Personally, I don't know a single metallic or ceramic singer.
2007-07-11 13:37:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like garbage to me. But in the unlikely event of it being true then it's poetic justice for the 2 hour ordeal of fingerprinting etc that Brits go through to get into the US.
2007-07-11 13:34:56 · answer #4 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to read up a little on the Holocaust if you think these two events can in any way be compared.
Now Communist Russia or Orwell's 1984 would be a just comparison.
2007-07-11 13:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by Cathy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
America detained the Japanese during WW2.
2007-07-11 13:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
you see some christian clerics on tv saying stuff like
this war on terror is a war on islam.. people jsut dont say it cuz it aint PC.
others say stuff like Jihad is a core principle of Islam. this is the real problem. so islam mus t be eradicated.
i dont know man... i just dont know.
2007-07-11 13:30:05 · answer #7 · answered by JaFaR M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After Napster, I download Metallica songs from Limewire, delete them, and start over again.
It's all about prinicple.
2007-07-11 13:28:01 · answer #8 · answered by Deke 5 · 9⤊ 1⤋
God guards you and us from the trickery of the oppressors and tyrants.
2007-07-11 13:42:51 · answer #9 · answered by MUHAMMAD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's ridiculous, and scary.
2007-07-11 13:32:59 · answer #10 · answered by milomax 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋