> Some had been kicked off planes for speaking Arabic on a cell phone One of the two prominent alleged examples of this was a youtube prankster who stood up an

> Some had been kicked off planes for speaking Arabic on a cell phone One of the two prominent alleged examples of this was a youtube prankster who stood up and started yelling into a telephone in the middle of an airplane, then jump-cut a video to make it look like people were criticizing him for speaking Arabic. The other prominent alleged example was of the son of a Iraqi diplomat who was killed under Saddam Hussein's regime; and though it may seem unfair, the FBI wanted to question him, he has a documented connection to politics in Iraq. There's a decent chance there that it had nothing to do with speaking Arabic on the plane, and the FBI wanted to question him anyhow. Other than that I guess I'd need to dig deeper, but this is a story some people want to come true. I am screened at airports, I don't know why exactly, I suspect they know something I don't know about my family. I factory reset all electronics before bringing them across the border, because I don't want to be asked to unlock them and submit to a search. Maybe it's theatre, maybe it's unfair, maybe it's a show of force, maybe it's discriminatory; but you know what, lots of people get stopped at the border. I can't pretend to know why I get stopped, and I don't think anyone else should either.