240,000 dollars awarded to blogger forced to cover Arab T-shirt

240,000 dollars awarded to blogger forced to cover Arab T-shirt

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An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday.

Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways following the August 2006 incident at New York's JFK Airport, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced.

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Although I agree that this man was wronged when forced to cover up a t-shirt with Arab script (transtlated to "We will not be silent", and I also agree that compensation was deserved, I feel that $240,000 is way to much.

Then again, we see lawsuits for frivilous matters where people are awarded millions of dollars, so perhaps it's not so much afterall.

Perhaps it will serve as a warning to airlines that they cannot descriminate in the name of the "war on terror"

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well if inflation gets out of hand, it really wont be very much

i think it was somewhat fair tho

i burnt around 200,000 $ in my 5years in college so its really not that much $

it will barely get you a decent education these days

Good for him!

I'm just glad he kept his shoes on and that he didn't ask for the safest location on the plane.

More importantly, the TSA officials should have been double sued for flaunting their stupidity and then sacked. These people are meant to be vigilant and shrewd, not bloody thugs. What has America become? A prison with prison thuggery from officials?

God help us, prejudice against writing. I say this because stupid people have problems reading despite a basic education.