das muss man sich echt mal reintun – (siehe Spiegel: lesen und vorne dabei dabei sein): Wegen der Brisanz im original Wortlaut zitiert aus The Radio News
Southwest Airline – Oregon woman kicked off flight in Reno over offensive shirt – This T-shirt is confirmed to be from The Radio News America Store!
A Portland woman’s flight home was stopped short in Reno, all because the message on the T-shirt she was wearing. Lorrie Heasley claims it’s a freedom of speech privilege, but airline officials say the message brings safety concerns. Heasley, “There are bigger problems in the country, I can’t believe people can be so petty.” Heasley boarded her flight Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, headed for Portland, Oregon with a stopover in Reno. But when Southwest Airlines employees asked her to cover her shirt, her stop over became a stop off her flight. “I was told that basically that I had to cover my shirt, or I was told if I cover the shirt I can basically stay on the plane.”
So she covered the shirt, but during a nap while passengers were boarding in Reno the cover came off. And Southwest employees insisted, change the shirt, or change flights. “I didn’t feel that I should have to change my shirt, because we live in the United States, and it’s freedom of speech and it was based on the move “The Fockers”, and I didn’t think it should have offended anyone.” But it did.
The shirt had pictures of members of the Bush Administration, and a phrase based on the movie “Meet the Fockers,” but with one crucial vowel changed. It was enough to cause complaints from other passengers and it’s a problem the airline has had to deal with before. Beth Harbin, Southwest Airlines, “We do get it occasionally. What someone is wearing, what someone is reading, what someone might be saying and it’s very much a judgment call. But when other customers become concerned we do have to become involved in that and see what we can do to make everyone as comfortable as we can.” And while Southwest may have kept the peace on it’s afternoon hop to Portland, a woman, not afraid to use her freedom of speech will now be using her freedom of choice. “I most likely wont be flying Southwest Airlines again after this.” Southwest Airlines told Heasley she could take a different flight home if she changed her shirt. She refused and opted to rent a car and drive home.
Es geht dabei um das rechts abgebildete T-Shirt, welches von The Radio News verkauft wird. Eine kurze Recherche bei Google ergibt folgende dramatischen Ergebnisse:
“southwest airlines anti-bush”-Suche gibt schon heute 16.900 Ergebnisse
Woman handcuffed, may be fired for anti-Bush T-shirt (schon eine ältere Sommermeldungen zu ähnlichen Ereignissen)
“anti bush shirt”-Suche ergibt schon 6.420.000 Ergebnisse “
Hier wurde angemerkt, dass es sich offenkundig nicht um eine sprachgebundene Suche handelt (schon alleine wegen der Menge der Ergebnisse). Ich merke dazu an, dass völlig unbemerkt die Welt mit Anti-Bush-Shirts zugepflastert wird, was ich wegen der ökologischen Risiken für sehr bedenklich halte. Bekommt Ihr diesen Mann nicht ohne diese Menge von Shirts aus dem Amt gejagt?
Noch etwas weiteres macht mir doch sehr ernste Sorgen: auf den T-Shirts steht. “MeettheFuckers”. Im Artikel steht überall “Meet the Fockers”. Die sind zu blöd zum Schreiben oder lesen oder beides? Ich werde mal in USA nachfragen. Die Antwort kenne ich allerdings schon: Heuchler, Farce – aber den richtigen Ausdruck habe ich noch nicht gefunden. Jetzt ist er mir eingefallen: klarer Fall von doppelter Moral.