Thursday, May 1, 2008
Northwest Airlines Temp File- Profiling Racism Bigotry
http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/racialprofiling/25583res20020604.html
Northwest Airlines Sued for Racial Profiling by Major Agencies:
NEW YORK--Five sweeping civil rights lawsuits filed across the country today accuse American, Continental, Northwest Airlines and United Airlines of blatant discrimination against five men who were ejected from flights based on the prejudices of airline employees and passengers and for reasons wholly unrelated to security.
ACLU, ADC and Relman Law Firm Sue Four Major Airlines Over Discrimination Against Passengers (6/4/2002) 
(Note: Although the ACLU may have been involved in this case, rest assured it is of not out of pure concern for the individual and monetary/ financial/prestige interests were at large: SEE THE FRAUD OF THE ACLU BY DR LES SACHS(click) archived HERE: http://acluexposedfraudulent.blogspot.com/- for the truth about the ACLU and how it abandons so many citizens but plays on appearances taking only the most high profile cases and leaving people bereft some to their demise)
*Muslims say they will shun Northwest
Airlines http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17180/muslims-say-they-will-shun-northwest-airlines
“I know that many Muslims call
Northwest ‘Northworst’… for its treatment to the Muslim community,” Imam Hassan
Al-Qazwini, head of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, said Tuesday.”
Though I am not
Muslim, It was assumed I was due to my skin complexion (racial profiling) a
premise sustained by the F.B.I interrogation after the attack asking me as I
lay bloodied in holding, if I was or knew Alquaeda or radical jihad showing me
pictures of Alqueada/Jihad suspects!!
THE RACIAL PROFILING IDEOLOGY BEHIND THE PROFILING EXPOSED: The following is direct excerpt from
the "Behavioral" Profiling article http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=126198
:"Airport police keeping a close eye on travelers...Forget those x-ray machines, the next time you're at the
airport someone might be watching you in a way you might not expect.
The
airport police at Minneapolis-St. Paul International are undergoing specialized
training called "behavior pattern recognition."What types of
behaviors are they looking for, "If they are dressed in a way you wouldn't
expect or if they are exhibiting nervous behaviors, or any other kind of
behavior that just doesn't fit into the airport environment," explained
airport spokesman Pat Hogan.He says the entire staff of the airport police will
be
fully
trained by the end of 2006 which will make Minneapolis-St. Paul International one
of only a handful of airports to have the training."
(Reflection: Notice how it coincides that
they are among the first and few to have undergone this training and
Minneapolis is among the highest Muslim concentration, with judicial corruption
exposed, and 21:1 Blacks/Minorities to whites in their prisons...)...continued excerpt from the article follows:
"It's really
based on Israeli techniques. Things
they've been using in Israel for decades because of the kinds of challenges
they've faced for years," said Hogan.
Tel Aviv airports
former security director (RON
RAFI) runs
the company that trained local airport police. Rafi
Ron said terrorists do not behavior "normally", "You do not
behave normally when you are walking around with an explosive device strapped
to your body."The Transportation Security Administration or TSA tested a similar
program in the Twin Cities and it's now rolling the program out nationally.Both the TSA and Hogan say eyeballing behavior helps keep
the airport routine, routine, "It's one more way to keep people
safe," said Hogan. " and yet my mother and I, were clearly not
terrorists -and yet...:
*** IMPORTANT: They had just completed
their intensive 6 months racial profiling course
(June-Dec 2005) indoctrinating them with overzelous
aggression and hostility, (in the name of 'homeland security' when
we arrived in Minneapolis Jan 18/06. Fresh from their instruction on overzelous
profiling and racial bigotry
this was the result.
..
...But the ACLU does have a concern: only two hours of classroom instruction for the airport employees*." (?!...) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16907743/
AND Yet that's not all who is being 'trained':
| ONLY 2 HOURS OF 'TRAINING' IN PROFILING EXTREMISM: ...AND JANITORS;STEWARDESSES INCLUDED IN THE "TRAINING"! THE RESULT:   |
manner."http://64.233.167.104/search?q
=cache:NE1JniWJQIUJ
:www.halldale.com/Assets/
Files/WATS%25202007/
Rafi%2520Ron.ppt+BPR+
minneapolis+Airport+
all+staff&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=
2&gl=ca&client=firefox-a
States Ron Rafi, "The only way we're going to make this airport 100 percent safe is that everyone that works at this airport does their job to keep it safe," says Rafi Ron with New Age Security Solutions...Janitors are now training to look for suspicious activities,...Law enforcement calls it "behavior pattern recognition." http://www.spitting-image.net
/archives/2007_02.html
*Northwest Airlines Stewardess Sherrie Caudill "We are trained to kill before we are killed"
HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE ARTICLE FOLLOWS:
http://www.icj.org/IMG/CHRGJRacialProfilingReport.pdf
"Since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States (U.S.) a number of countrieshave either adopted or reinforced counter-terrorism measures that stand in direct contradiction toestablished human rights norms. Under the pretext of protecting national security in the global “war on terror” States have, for example, violated the right to due process of law, the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, the right to be free from discrimination, and even the right to life.
The use of “behavior pattern recognition” has similarly emerged as a trend in counterterrorism
training. ...
While a shift away from focusing on the “the type of person” who fits a
terrorist profile
toward the type of behavior that might precede an attack is laudable, this
Briefing Paper argues that the indicators contained in Training Key 581 will not be implemented in
a neutral manner.
Specifically, it concludes that these indicators are proxies for racial, ethnic
and religious profiling,
and that implementation of the Training Key will disproportionately target Muslims, Arabs and South
Asians, or those perceived to be Muslim, Arab, or South Asian.
... on the basis of overly-broad physical and behavioral characteristics,
that will in the overwhelming number of cases end up targeting Muslims, Arabs
and South Asians, or those perceived to be Muslim, Arab,or South Asian. "
_______________________________________________
*Northwest
Airlines Stewardess Sherrie Caudill "We are trained to kill before we are
killed"
*Northwest Airlines Stewardess Sherrie
Caudill "We are trained to kill before we are killed"
By David Shepardson / Racial insults to cost
Northwesthttp://www.pprune.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-369.html
Airline agrees to
federal oversight, $300,000 payment
The Detroit News
ROMULUS -- The federal government will monitor Northwest Airlines for at least
two years to ensure it more closely investigates employee complaints of racial
harassment, according to a proposed lawsuit settlement.
Northwest has agreed to the federal oversight and strict conditions to monitor
complaints of employee harassment at Detroit Metropolitan Airport or risk
sanctions from the court, including federal fines, a person close to the
negotiations told The News.
...NORTHWEST AIRLINES
AND THE KU KLUX KLAN!
...This isn't the first time Northwest has been the focus of a racial
harassment lawsuit. In 1991, Northwest paid more than $4 million to settle
claims that it had discriminated against some black employees in hiring
practices around the country.
Just this past July...Northwest spokeswoman Kathy Peach declined to comment on
the agreement's details. The EEOC also would not comment..."Clearly the presence of nooses and
Ku Klux Klan symbols in the workplace, if ignored by Northwest, is the type of
discriminatory conduct that might warrant (court action)," the Appeals
Court wrote..."Northwest employee
Steve Dyer reported seeing a KKK symbol in a restroom
and graffiti that referred to the Million Man March as the "Million Monkey
March." Another wall writing contained another racial slur. Dyer said he
told his supervisor, who allegedly did nothing.
Another black Northwest employee, Willie Jones, said a co-worker showed him a
picture of gorillas in a tree and asked if it was his family tree."
Within the
scope of this site you will see revealed : their 6000 cd release to
NASA and the FBI of illicitlyprocured personal passenger profile information
obtained through online registration for plane tickets for racial profiling purposes, the fact they were pioneers
along with the FAA in developing the computer passenger profiling system, have
an exhaustive history of racial profiling persecution(of which I cite several
accounts) and are currently delving into the Orwellian World of ominous
profiling extremism in experimenting with NASA on "brain wave pattern
recognition to identify potential terrorists-url link referenced below.)
* The Attack Upon Us: Brief Summary: Mother
and I Canadians returning on NWA flight 1628 Jan18/06 ,from Mayo Clinic
(consult with surgeon), racially profiled (accused suspicious bag)ATTACKED: I
am left in pool of blood in middle of isle... placed through secret
trial (NSA, FBI and Northwest Airlines employees-ON JURY POOL housed judge David S. Doty- X-U.S. Marine
with CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST HIM- (seehttp://www.clr.org/fed-judges.html who
threatened ILLEGAL HARM UPON MY FAMILY
*Northwest Claims cannot divulge if there is video aboard their
aircraft for
purposes of security, yet gladly volunteered that there was no video of the attack upon
us on the aircraft in this incident. see "Where Was The Video
Surveillance?" Further down below
* Video
Re Enactment of the Attack http://aaronjamesstory.com/airplaneflash.swf
* Northwest
Airlines Gives 6000 CD's to the FBI for purposes of racial profiling.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/airtravel/nasa/
Northwest Airlines' Disclosure of
Passenger Data to Federal Agencies
New Information Disclosed in EPIC's FOIA Lawsuit -- FBI Obtained
Passenger Data; TSA Informed of NASA Screening Research
outright lies and this activity after such action was revealed externally.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26037-2004Jan17
"Confidential Passenger Data Used for Air Security Project - EPIC outs
NorthWest and NASA via FOIA
washingtonpost.com: "Northwest Airlines provided information on
millions of passengers for a secret U.S. government air security project soon
after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks, raising fresh concerns among some
privacy advocates about the airlines' use of confidential consumer data. The
nation's fourth-largest carrier publicly asserted in September that it 'did not
provide that type of information to anyone.' But Northwest acknowledged Friday
it had already turned over three months of reservation data to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center by that
point." So what you're saying is that Northwest out-and-out lied. Nice.
You know - is it any wonder that people don't trust Big Anything anymore?
posted by NL Staff at 22:35"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244160,00.html
40 Michigan Muslims
Claim Racial Profiling by Northwest Airlines
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
A Northwest spokesman said that the travelers
reported to the gate Jan. 7 in Frankfurt, Germany, only about 20 minutes before
their connecting flight was due to take off. Airline and international rules
stipulate that passengers must check in for international flights at least an
hour before departure and be onboard the aircraft at least 30 minutes
beforehand.
"They showed up at the last minute,"
spokesman Dean Breest told The Detroit News.
But the Muslim pilgrims and the Council
on American Islamic Relations rejected the airline's statement at a
news conference Tuesday, saying flight rules are at least the third reason
given for the incident.
"We arrived at the gate at least an hour
and 30 minutes before the departure," said Imam Sayed Hassan al-Qazwini of
the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. "Others who came after us were
allowed to board the airplane."
___________This is the mentality produced by their "Behavioural" (racial) profiling project. __________________________________________________
Vikram (http://www.travbuddy.com)says:
I've flown Northwest Air only once and I'm sorry but they're hopeless.
They're probably the worst of US carriers I've flown with, and you can imagine
what kind of a compliment that is given that US carriers are all hopeless to
begin with. I found the NW cabin crew
rude not to mention incredibly racist. (see
http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/1365/Amsterdam-Amsterdam-2)
..."NW as an airline itself is - check their lovely refurbished A340s they
fly from the US to AMS, and the cheap old DC-10 they fly from AMS to Mumbai!
Food's terrible, service non-existent and the Mumbai-AMS flight had dirty
toilets.
Posted on: Jun 19, 2007"
AIRLINES FIASCO:
Northwest Airlines 'terror' fiasco in Netherlands- the 12 Indians Profiled Handcuffed Humiliated
When I read the article of 12 Indians arrested on a jet by Netherlands for
"suspicious behaviour", the first words that came to my mind was -
"How could they?" Indeed, thats what everybody ought to think...
Agreed, the Indian passengers had shifted seats among themselves without
informing the airplane crew, and apparently exchanged a mobile and laughed more
than once, but the question is - How can this be sufficient grounds for
arresting them?? This was either an act of stupidity or racial prejudice. Throughout
the one and half day ordeal, the
passengers were treated as terrorists, irrespective of their vociferous denials
and the lack of actual evidence that would point to any terrorist activity- the
police considered them guilty. And the reports in newspapers all over the West
announced this with great fanfare, as if a major terrorist plot had been
prevented.
Would this have happened if the the passengers were boisterous Americans or
drunk Europeans?? Would the Netherlands authorities behave so insolently,
interrogate them so relentlessly, infringe on their privacy, and then announce
their innocence without even an apology??
The so called "guardians of democracy and equality" are guilty of
double standards... Is this sensible? It will only fan the fires of anger
in the Third World and enable terrorists to strengthen themselves. Are the
governments of Europe and America so blind to the current reality that they
cant see that all their measures to "control" terrorism have
backfired?? Have they no respect for the dignity of others?
Instead of tyrannical measures like "racial profiling" or the
infamous "shoot at sight" statement [which led to the death of the
innocent Brazilian at the hands of the British police- or should I call it
murder?],
...Now, it was 12 Indian passengers.. What next, o ye defenders of the
"free" world???"
1st Comment: "my feelings exactly... its blatant racism!"
___
*The detention of 12 passengers of Indian origin at Amsterdam has raised concerns of racial profiling
http://o3.indiatimes.com/
mytimes/archive/2006/08/25/1376553.aspx
http://o3.indiatimes.com/mytimes/archive/2006/08/25/1376553.aspx
After being detained on board a Northwest Airlines flight to Mumbai, the 12 Indians were finally released on Thursday. Dutch authorities held them for questioning for about 24-hours after they reportedly exhibited what was termed 'suspicious behaviour' on board the flight. This includes exchanging laptops and cellphones and refusing to wear their seat belts and follow crew instructions.
The men were released without any terrorism charges. Their mobile phones and laptops were found not to contain any explosives. It still remains unclear whether the crew was responding to a serious terrorist incident or it was just a misunderstanding, where you had unsophisticated people flying!
However this is not an isolated incident. Two British citizens of Asian appearance were forced off a Manchester-bound flight after fellow passengers did not allow the jet to take off from the Spanish town of Malaga until the duo, whom they feared to be terrorists, were disembarked.
Northwest
Airlines and Invasive New Age Technology Profiling Initiatives:
* "Northwest Airlines involved in new
invasive NASA BRAIN WAVE MONITORING profiling
approach: Airport security screeners may
soon try to read the minds of travelers to identify "terrorists".
Northwest Airlines and Invasive New Age Technology Profiling Initiatives:
http://www.brainwavescience.com/discovery.php
http://www.skirsch.com/politics/plane/ultimate_comments.htm
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/privacy_watch/
"Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have
told Northwest Airlines security
specialists that the agency is developing brain-monitoring devices in
cooperation with a commercial firm, which it did not identify.
Space technology would be adapted to
receive and analyze brain-wave and heartbeat patterns, then feed that data into
computerized programs "to detect
passengers who potentially might pose a threat," according to briefing documents obtained by The
Washington Times.
NASA wants to use "noninvasive
neuro-electric sensors," imbedded in gates, to collect tiny electric
signals that all brains and hearts transmit. "
"George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Steve pro-
poses creating a “federal database of brain
wave activity” to compare brain activity of
known terrorists and criminals with that of
each person attempting to board an air-craft.Delta and
Northwest
Airlines both have already
created task force groups to coordinate the
communication structures such a planwould require, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:eF2oaHfsJJoJ:www.mpcug.org/bridge/2002mar.pdf+northwest+airlines+install+camera+in+office+employee&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=46
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:eF2oaHfsJJoJ:www.mpcug.org/bridge/2002mar.pdf+northwest+airlines+install+camera+in+office+employee&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=46
Northwest Airlines and the FAA IS WHERE RACIAL PROFILING BEGAN...The two of them are responsible for developing thier CAPS (computer Automated Profiling System) prototype and then propogating it to the system as a whole.
***This is consistent with the fact that NWA is also the airline that gave FBI AND NASA 6000 CD'S FOR RACIAL PROFILING AGENDA.
Please READ THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS AS PROOF:
WHITE HOUSE COMMSSION ON AVIATION
SAFETY AND SECURITYTHE DOT STATUS REPORT
By mid-1996, FAA, through a grant to Northwest Airlines, had developed
a prototype automated passenger profiling system known as Computer-Assisted
Passenger Screening or CAPS. In September 1996, a follow-on grant was awarded
to Northwest both to refine the program
to achieve operational capability and to assist in adapting CAPS to other
airlines’ reservation systems. Northwest met with other air carriers in the
fall, conducted preliminary system tests during the winter, and progressed to
operational tests on selected flights in its system in April 1997. Northwest
has completed the process of phasing in CAPS throughout its domestic system
with over 150 stations on-line today.
http://www.dot.gov/affairs/whcsec3.htm
The FAA awarded a grant to Northwest
Airlines to upgrade its prototype automated profiling software program for
system-wide implementation on
reservation systems and to provide specifications supporting technology transfer to other major airline reservation systems. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/presrep96/Presrp96/ch6d.htm
The Commission discussed a
computer-assisted passenger screening (CAPS) system developed by the FAA
andNorthwest Airlines and recommended
that the FAA implement an automatedprofiling system by December 31, 1997. In
April 1997, in accordance with provisions of an FAA grant, theFAA and Northwest
Airlines completed final programming changes to a
prototype CAPS system, http://www.epic.org/privacy/faa/profile_NPRM.html
http://whiteprivilege.com/2002/08/16/flying-while-arab/
by Kendall Clark an
article on NORTHWEST AIRLINES-flying while Arab:
The first sign of trouble came at the San Francisco International Airport on
the morning of Oct. 23, when Arshad Chowdhury was returning to school in
Pittsburgh from a trip to the West Coast.
The 26-year-old business administration student at Carnegie Mellon University
was waiting to catch Northwest Airlines Flight 342 to Pittsburgh when an
announcement summoned him to the airline desk.
At first Chowdhury, a U.S. citizen who was born in America after his parents
migrated from Bangladesh, did not imagine there could be possibly be any
problem.
Chowdhury suspected there must have been a mix up with the ticket. But an
airline official informed him that he could not board the plane because his
name had a “phonetic similarity” to one on a government watch-list.
“I didn’t know what he meant,” recalls the MBA student whose last name is a
common South Asian surname. “But I was very cooperative, since obviously there
was a mistake.”
Within minutes, he was surrounded by police and FBI agents in full view of
an increasingly suspicious group of passengers and although the FBI
subsequently cleared him, Northwest
airline officials refused to let him board the flight.
He finally got to Pittsburgh on a US Airways flight, but it was not the end of
his unfortunate tryst with airport security.
In November, when he was flying home to Connecticut for Thanksgiving, he was
summoned again. Apparently Northwest Airlines
had put a “block” on his name, a
revelation that sent shivers down his spine.
“How would you feel if your name was on a terrorist watch-list?” he asks. “I
don’t know how far the information spread. It might have prevented me from
renting a car … or heaven forbid if there was another terrorist attack while I
was on the list.”
Although the block has since been rectified, Chowdhury is one of five claims
made in lawsuits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union accusing four
airlines of unfairly kicking Middle Eastern-looking men off their flights.
Fingerprinting
Foreigners
“Flying while Arab”
a post 9/11 alteration of the phrase “driving while black,” which refers to racial profiling complaints against the police for targeting black motorists has in recent months sent civil and immigration rights groups on the offensive even as the authorities announce new measures to beef up homeland security.
Exactly a year after the attacks on America, the Justice Department will
implement a new program to fingerprint and photograph more than 100,000 U.S.
visa holders every year posing an “elevated national security concern.”
Announcing the plan on Monday, Justice Department officials said there would be
a 20-day testing period at several unnamed ports of entry beginning on Sept.
11, and all remaining entry ports would implement the new system on Oct. 1,
2002.
Called the National Security Entry/Exit Registration System, the program is
aimed at eventually tracking “virtually all” of the 35 million foreign visitors
who land in the United States each year. Justice Department officials estimate
the system would be fully operational by 2005.
But until that happens, approximately 100,000 visitors from five countries
would initially be tracked. These include nationals from Sudan, Iran, Iraq,
Syria and Libya which, along with North Korea and Cuba make up the U.S. State
Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Rights Groups Cry
Racial Profiling, Officials Disagree
Civil and immigrant rights groups however have vociferously denounced the new
program as a “fancy but enormous” exercise in racial profiling.
“This system...will certainly lead to racial profiling,” says Cyrus Mehta, chairman of the Immigration Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
“Other countries also have militants, but this is a matter of applying the
rules only to a certain group of people. How else would you determine this
except by profiling? This is all very subjective.”
‘Just Be Honest’
In a multiracial, multiethnic country that sees itself, among other things, as
a refuge for all the world’s huddled masses, profiling is a dark, dirty word in
the American lexicon. But on both sides of the profiling divide, some experts
wonder why the authorities simply do not come out and admit to racial
profiling.
“There is
definitely a nationality classification going on here, which usually translates
into a racial or ethnic classification,” Christopher Malone, a political
science professor specializing in U.S. racial issues at New York’s Pace
University.
“It is strange that
the justice department doesn’t call it this I would prefer for them to just be
honest about what they are doing rather than trying to have it both ways.”
When it comes to official policy on profiling, Charles Bahn, a professor of
forensic psychology at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says
that in the course of a long career in the field, he has seen what he calls
“three different periods in racial profiling.”
“In the first period, the police used racial profiling very widely and I think
at great cost particularly on young blacks and Hispanics,” he says.
Francisco International Airport approximately one month after September 11,
2001. The gravamen of plaintiff's complaint is that he was denied boarding on a
Northwest (“Northwest”) flight even after Northwest, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and airport security had determined that he did not pose a
security risk. Plaintiff, who is a United States citizen of Bangladeshi
ancestry, makes claims under state and federal anti-discrimination laws.
Defendants move to dismiss on the grounds that plaintiff's state law claims are
preempted by federal aviation law and his federal civil rights claims conflict
with such law… Defendants' argument fails because there is no apparent conflict
between the federal statutes prohibiting racial discrimination and the federal
law giving air carriers the discretion to refuse to carry passengers for safety
reasons. Plaintiff's claim is that he was refused passage because of his
ethnicity; Northwest knew he did not pose a safety risk. The fact that the
pilot is in control of the aircraft does not, as a court in the Central
District recently concluded, "grant [the airlines] a license to
discriminate." Assem Bayaa v. United Airlines, 02-4368 FMC (C.D.Cal. Oct.
9, 2002). Defendants do not cite any case holding-in any context-that the
federal civil rights statutes conflict with another, more recent federal law.
In sum, there is simply no legal basis for dismissing plaintiff's federal civil
rights claims.")
Northwest
Airlines is HIDING THE VIDEO OF THE ATTACK upon my mother and I - because the
video reveals that we are innocent and is evidentiary of their crimes:
EVIDENCE
FOLLOWS:
http://www.aiaa-atlanta.org/newsletters/news2001_12.pdf
Delta Launches Test of Aircraft Transponder and Video CameraSystems
Airline also announces completion of cockpit door bar installations ATLANTA, Oct. 29, 2001 -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) announced today that it
will begin testing enhanced transponder and cabin video surveillance systems onboard one of its MD-88aircraft. Delta is the first airline to test such a comprehensive security
solution - enhanced transponder system, onboard cabin video surveillance system and cockpit door security bar - focused on
enhancing aircraft security.
On October 1, 2001, DOT Secretary Norman Mineta released recommendations from the Rapid Response teams to improve aircraft and airport security.
The aircraft security report outlined 17 recommendations, including: (1) industryevaluation of the use of cameras and lighting outside the flight deck door
Discussions regarding the second phase of cockpit reinforcements were
recently launched. Delta and ***Northwest Airlines are serving as
***co-chairs of an industry task force developing recommended specifications.
Yet Northwest Airlines Will Not State the obvious:
Northwest Airlines Corp. would not confirm or deny whether it
has installed cameras. Spokesman Scott Tennant said, for security reasons, the
airline cannot discuss on-board security measures. ------- This is very cool. http://iagblog.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html
YET WHEN WE ASKED NORTHWEST AIRLINES FOR VIDEO THEY QUICKLY
VOLUNTEERED "THERE WAS NO VIDEO!" AIRLINE SECURITY CERTAINLY DID NOT
SEEM TO BE AN ISSUE AT THIS POINT...
Between Northwest Airlines planned use of brain wave recordings,
intensive racial profiling initiatives and release of private passenger info to
the FBI and NASA without permission, one is to wonder if NWA has cameras and
video on board their aircraft? We feel the answer is obvious. NORTHWEST IS
HIDING EVIDENCE OF THE ATTACK.
NORTHWEST AIRLINES / MN AIRPORT (WHERE WE WERE ATTACKED ON BOARD THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT 1628) HATE BASED INCIDENTS NEAR
2001- A DOCUMENTARY/ SCANNED IN DOCUMENTS:
_____________________________________________________
Muslim Passengers Kicked Off Northwest Flight
http://www.crescentlife.com/heal%20the%20world/cair_reports.htm
Islamic group condemns airline's action as "racial and religious profiling"
(WASHINGTON-DC, 9/21/2001) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Islamic advocacy group, today condemned an incident on Thursday in Minneapolis, Minn., in which three Muslim passengers were kicked off a Northwest airlines flight because other passengers refused to fly with them.
Media reports indicate that the three men, who all live in Utah and were on their way home from Philadelphia, were taken from a connecting flight in Minneapolis. Northwest says that security rules say the airline has to "re-accommodate" passengers if their presence makes other passengers uncomfortable.
SEE: http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/704367.html
"This is racial and religious profiling of the worst kind. Both the passengers and the airplane personnel should be ashamed of their actions," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. Awad added that CAIR has received more than 500 reports of anti-Muslim discrimination, including three deaths, following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington."
APPENDIX
HATE-BASED INCIDENTS
SEPTEMBER 11 - OCTOBER 11, 2002, 2001http://adc.org/hatecrimes/pdf/2003_report_web.pdf
http://www.thememoryhole.org/usccr
/usccr_boundaries_justice_zogby2.htm
Arab American Institute Foundation Report © To The United States Commission on Civil Rights October 11, 2001
Editor, Claudette Shwiry Hamad
(I HAVE SELECTED EXCERPTS IDENTIFYING INCIDENTS
PERTINENT TO MINNEAPOLIS , to FBI ,OR NORTHWEST AIRLINES / MN AIRPORT)
DISCRIMINATION/PROFILING
Minneapolis:
Eagen. Indian American woman followed out of grocery store by three high school age boys. One pushed her against her car; another punched her in stomach and elbowed her in the back. As they left, said "This is what you people deserve." (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 10/2)
_______________________________________________________________
(excerpt from Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund further below: On October 28, 2001, three Arab American women were prevented from boarding their
flight to New York City from Minneapolis because airline personnel had overheard them
quietly praying before the flight and became concerned on hearing one of the women say the
word "Allah."124 (apparently this is a crime?)
___________________________________________________
APPENDIX
HATE-BASED INCIDENTSSEPTEMBER 11 - OCTOBER 11, 2002, continued:
Boston. FBI agents, mistaking her fiancé's last name with that of Mohammed Atta, dragged veiled Saudi woman down corridor of Westin Copley Place Hotel, handcuffed and beat her leaving a 6" scratch across her face. She had accompanied her family on numerous visits to Boston for father's medical treatment. Media reports of incident did not refer to error or include public apology by FBI. (Boston Globe, 9/16)
New Jersey
DISCRIMINATION/PROFILING
A number of Pakistani immigrants reporting detainment and harsh treatment at the hands of FBI agents. (Washington Post, 10/3).
DISCRIMINATION/PROFILING
Manhattan. Man detained in New York. After 20 days, authorities would still not allow family to see him; did allow lawyer visit. Hearings scheduled three times; cancelled three times by FBI. (AAI, 10/10)
DISCRIMINATION/PROFILING
Ashburn. Egyptian American fired from Wal-Mart. Called into office at store and questioned by FBI in early October. Coworkers uncomfortable working with him. FBI and Wal-Mart would not comment. (Newhouse News, 10/17)
Dulles. United Airlines flight to London delayed four hours after Saudi pilot sought to fly in cockpit. United pilot refused and returned to gate. Saudi pilot and two other men detained and questioned by FBI and INS for three hours. FBI field office spokesman said 'their story check out...they were sent on their way." (Pittsburgh Post Gazette9/21)
DISCRIMINATION/PROFILING
Seattle. 12 year American Airlines employee escorted off AA flight to Dallas with another passenger of Arab origin. They were informed "pilot does not feel safe with you guys on board and we have notified the FBI to come here and question you." Interrogation and background check performed by three Seattle police officers, after which they were permitted to board a later AA flight to Dallas. Apologetic stewardess later informed them that pilot of second flight was asked by FBI agent if he feels comfortable flying with "two Middle Eastern men." (ADC, 9/26)
Los Angeles. Six passengers of Indian ethnicity brought to back of plane on flight from LAX to Washington Dulles. The pilot first questioned the men; FBI and INS agents arrived an hour later and interrogated passengers. Three passengers left plane because they were uncomfortable. (ADC, 9/26)
http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/
racial_profiling/racial_profiling_report.pdf
WRONG THEN, WRONG NOW Racial Profiling Before & After September 11, 2001
This Report compares the practice of "traditional" street-level racial profiling with the post-September
11 profiling of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians. It concludes that profiling is just as wrong now
as it was before the war on terrorism began. The same arguments that led President Bush and
Attorney General Ashcroft to condemn racial profiling before September 11 should lead them to
abandon it now.
In the months preceding September 11, a national consensus had emerged on the need to combat
racial profiling. In the fearful aftermath of the terrorist attacks, some reevaluated their views. It is now
time to dispel those doubts, reawaken the national consensus, and ban racial profiling in America.
Racial profiling occurs when law enforcement agents impermissibly use race, religion, ethnicity or
national origin in deciding who to investigate. Compelling anecdotal and statistical evidence demonstrates
that minorities are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement.
***I NOW SELECT EXCERPTS FROM THIS REPORT IDENTIFYING
On October 28, 2001, three Arab American women were prevented from boarding their
flight to New York City from Minneapolis because airline personnel had overheard them
quietly praying before the flight and became concerned on hearing one of the women say the
word "Allah."124 (apparently this is a crime?)
On September 26, 2001, a group of six passengers of Indian ethnicity were questioned aboard
a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The men were taken to the back
of the plane, where they were first questioned by a pilot and then by FBI and INS.132
The story of Ali al Maqtari, a French teacher from Yemen, provides a chilling example of what many
Arabs and Muslims have faced since September 11...
The federal agents falsely accused Mr. al Maqtari of violating the immigration
laws, abusing his wife, and conspiring with terrorists from Russia;...Even after polygraph tests showed that
he was telling the truth, but after INS and FBI officials indicated he would be freed, Mr. al Maqtari was
held for an additional seven weeks, during which time he was housed with hardened criminals in two
separate jails, taunted by guards, and limited to one phone call per week.100
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