Muslim leaders removed from Delta Connection flight

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Zero Sum

Perhaps something changed up in the last few years?

But prior -

The Captain of the Plane DID have final say as to who could come on board. 99.99 % of the time it was just a simple courtesy, but in those rare times that a passenger was asked to leave, the airlines backed up the Captain.

As for now? today-ish? Surely he had his reasons, I don't think it was fueled by racism at all.

I believe I read somewhere that another person destined for the same conference was also turned back. That's too much of a coincidence. Probably something we don't know here, or something they can't tell us.

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Ya, I think we'll never know the real story, TSA was acting on 'tips' from other agencies.

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Zero Sum

Perhaps something changed up in the last few years?

But prior -

The Captain of the Plane DID have final say as to who could come on board. 99.99 % of the time it was just a simple courtesy, but in those rare times that a passenger was asked to leave, the airlines backed up the Captain.

As for now? today-ish? Surely he had his reasons, I don't think it was fueled by racism at all. Perhaps he was lax, prior, in any racial profiling on Islamic Terrorists, but, at the end of the day, supposedly it was the TSA that made the request, and not the Pilot.

Prior, a Captain of an airplane had wide discretionary power for not only who came on board, but real time sanctions for unruly behavior whilst the plane was in transit.

All common denominators considered, they were probably booted off due to paranoid people being stupid.

The 'OR' argument is what AJ is saying.