No matter what he was wearing, the airline has the right to refuse service..... so no big deal, plus it did not happen in the US so whats your point??

Don't have much love for airlines and anti-terrorism laws on airlines, but basically its their stuff and if you don't play by their weird rules you lump it.

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Idiocy on airlines isn't tolerated.
Why not just have a picture of the burning towers while he's at it....

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Well he was obviously out to take the piss having done it once before, get his 15minutes of fame and get about as close as most 55year old computer science guys will get to being a 'rebel'.
Probably write about it in his 'blog' when he gets home and have other like minded nut jobs throwing their moral outrage in about how 'the man' stopped them from going into a night club with sneakers on once.

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Originally posted by Lilith Well he was obviously out to take the piss having done it once before...

That's the part that got me, hence 'idiocy'...

...and you're probably right!
Must be hard living in the body of an old man when you're really a cool anti-social teen rebel.

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True, just buy a convertible when the willie stops working and stop trying to save the rest of us from weird airline policies.

I don't see you people defending the Freedom Of Speech here.
I recall seeing quite different opinions after Denmark's newspaper published Muhamed's cartoons.

Freedom of Speech has no real bearing on this. An airplane is, in effect, a private club. The owners of that plane have the right to deny anyone for just about any reason they want. No matter how much people don't like it.

As a customer of an airline, you are agreeing to follow their rules. When I was young, you could not wear a t-shirt at all on most airlines. Most airlines have loosened their dress codes for paying customers.

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Hey, those 'private clubs' operates in a Democratic-like country, so they must obey its rules. If Australia allows people to express them self freely, they DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT to forbid it.

Actially, I'm not suprised to see that kind of reaction at all.

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Originally posted by star-traveller I don't see you people defending the Freedom Of Speech here. I recall seeing quite different opinions after Denmark's newspaper published Muhamed's cartoons.

agreed...

EDIT: Sadly, the airline can do things like that, its their "private club", as some say. They can consider that a "threat" to security. Following the 9/11 attacks I've heard of funnier things people got kicked out of airplanes for.

All I can recommend is never use that airline again. And tell the guy to go around with his story. Maybe the airline will stop being political, and start putting customers in priority view. Airlines for good part are known for shitty service, and poor treatment, especially since 9/11.

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