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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: karajorma on September 22, 2004, 12:49:39 pm
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Okay. If I didn't know better I'd swear they were making this **** up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3678694.stm
Seriously. Was their any need to divert the flight? Did they really think he was going to hijack it? What did they think he was going to do? Sing Moonshadow at them? :lol:
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Naw, "Cat's In The Cradle" has been declared a weapon of mass destruction. Which is utterly retarded since the real weapon is Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"
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Phear teh lyrics....
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More importantly, if he really was a terrorist, wouldn't it be better not to let him on the plane in the first place?
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Well, it's nothing to do with him being Cat Stevens, and more to do with his real name, which include the word 'Islam' and therefore is automatically assumed by the FBI to be a Terrorist ;)
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Technically he was linked to terrorist funding, which I guess is reason enough to keep him out. But divert the plane? :doubt:
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yes. divert it to keep him away from major american cities.
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Cats in the Cradle is one of my more favorite songs. Dang.
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that is a very badass song.
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Yeah, and you have to be careful who gets on flights, you never know who might be backing the bad guys ;)
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2004/08/1092947427.html
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Well, you gotta keep the riffraff out somehow.
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Originally posted by Stealth
yes. divert it to keep him away from major american cities.
Cause he might stage a concert?
Even if he is raising money for terrorists I somehow doubt that Cat Stevens is a big enough threat to the US that there was any need to do that. Just arrest and deport him when the plane gets to Washington.
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Technically he was linked to terrorist funding, which I guess is reason enough to keep him out. But divert the plane? :doubt:
How so? Did he contribute to the democratic party? :D
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Mustn't....post....alternate....lyrics......
:nervous:
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Originally posted by Flipside
Mustn't....post....alternate....lyrics......
:nervous:
Be strong...
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....and Cat's been sent down to Gitmo Bay
Little boy Bush wants to put him away
He's gonna get deported but we don't know when
he ain't comin' back again, no, he ain't-a coming back again......
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LOL
Or of course, the Syrian export, which is believed to contain subliminal messages to terrorist groups :-
When the Planes over Apple
Get a silver spoon
sharpened up to be a
weapon of doom
Theres 12 girls waiting for you
in heaven
You know you'll have a good time then ;)
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...please, no more.
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He started it :p
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I did nothing of the sort. :)
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Originally posted by karajorma
Cause he might stage a concert?
Even if he is raising money for terrorists I somehow doubt that Cat Stevens is a big enough threat to the US that there was any need to do that. Just arrest and deport him when the plane gets to Washington.
hey, don't ask me man... you just said you wondered why they didn't let him get to washington, and i just said the most reasonable thing that came to my mind: because it's a big city :p
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I know why they choose to land in Bangor rather than Washington as you say but it's only sensible if they believed that Cat Stevens was going to hijack the plane.
Quite frankly that's absolute nonsense isn't it?
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Does anybody have details of how he got on the watch list? I mean, real details, not a misc. "he was fundraising" thingie.
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Originally posted by ngtm1r
Does anybody have details of how he got on the watch list? I mean, real details, not a misc. "he was fundraising" thingie.
He changed his name to 'Islam'
:p
Cat Stevens 'shock' at US refusal (22/9/03) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3682434.stm)
Israel bans former pop star(13/7/00) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/832796.stm)
EDIT; IIRC Bangor is an Air Force Base. I certainly remember rows of b-52s sitting by the runway from refuelling stops there when going to Florida.
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And of course Pennywise is there to deal with troublemakers....
(http://www.stephenking.s5.net/images/wallpapers/IT%20Pennywise%20800x600.jpg)
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I tell you, they Department of Homeland Security needs to get it's act together. It's not like anyone will ever be able to take another American plane. At least not in the near future. Any passenger of able body would fight, because we've learned that overcoming the hijackers is the way to survive. Back in the '80's when it was people interested in money or political recognition/assylum hijacking planes, they weren't interested in hurting the passengers really. But now we know we can't trust our captors anymore... :( Goodbye Stockholm Syndrome...
But anyway, they really need to fix their methods for airline security... They've been found to be grossly ineffective.
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Apparently the reason Cat Stevens gave up his career as a singer was because radical Muslims convinced him that it was against the Quoran to do so.....30 years ago. He also allegedly gave money to Hamas.
Cat Stevens + 'Radical' Muslims (even 30 years ago) = FBI Wet Dream.
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That would be a bit odd since he has repeatedly denounced terrorism.
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Unfortunately, in the 1980's, he went on public record that he supported the death warrant issued against Salman Rushdie for "The Satanic Verses". Not a good way to win friends and influence people, but certainly no reason to put him on a watch list.
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Maybe that'll teach Salman Rushdie to write a book worth reading.
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And the funniest things about this thread: "Cat's in the Cradle" was written and sung by Harry Chapin, not Cat Stevens.
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I know, but it was better than my alternate Lyrics for 'Morning has Broken' trust me ;)