...it's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there...
From Australia's Herald Sun:
Four Australian women have been detained while trying to board a plane in Syria, reportedly after gun parts were found inside a child's toy.Via A Western Heart.The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) said two women from Victoria and two from NSW were with two Iraqi women when they were detained at Damascus airport on Tuesday.
All six were of Iraqi origin, the department said.
A DFAT spokesman would not confirm media reports that the group was detained after a disassembled gun was found inside a toy being carried by a child with the women.
The ABC has quoted a Syrian police source and a diplomatic source as saying the women entered the airport in the Syrian capital with a child.
They said the women were detained after the gun parts were found in a toy the child was holding.
The women were reportedly trying to board a flight bound for Australia.
I certainly hope the officials were prosecuted for racially profiling these poor women. I hope that unecessary strip searches were not performed upon them, just because the child decided to bring his Colt .45 and twenty rounds of high velocity hollow head ammo with him.
We have to stop persecuting these Middle Easterners and get back to random searches only, or our republic will have lost all our civil rights. Where the hell is the ACLU when we need them?
These prejudices must come to an end so we can be free.
Posted by: shelly on Nov. 18, 2005I think these actions are probably the mission of the ACLU. If there were a SCLU they might be interested but I doubt such and orginazation exists.
Posted by: Shug on Nov. 18, 2005I think these actions are outside the mission of the ACLU. If there were a SCLU they might be interested but I doubt such and orginazation exists.
Posted by: Shug on Nov. 18, 2005