I wonder how quick someone will be to say his civil rights were violated because a "Behavior Specialist" picked him out of the crowed. Good work US Government!



Scary

Perhaps this should be in the 50 Cent Tony thread, too?

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Tuesday night, an FBI official said Brown was apparently living on the streets in Orlando.........


Passengers waiting to board flights at Orlando International Airport Tuesday said they noticed Brown acting suspiciously before agents moved in.

"He looked rather crazy," a passenger said. "He was rocking left and right and up and down. He looked a little wacko."

Tick, tick, tick... that's the clock ticking until the truth on this story comes out. This reeks of phony.

Already, if you read past the first couple paragraphs in other sources, there really wasn't a Federal "behavioural specialist".... dumbass checked his bags in and the items were picked up by a scanner. His sister claims he is a chronic pot smoker and that the tube was his pipe.

Also, this is a person whose spouse is in active duty in the military. What's up with loco in the military families these days???

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Originally posted by glellyn:
His sister claims he is a chronic pot smoker and that the tube was his pipe.

Here's a quote from the original article

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airport authorities found two galvanized pipes, end caps, two small containers containing BBs, batteries, two containers with an unknown liquid and bombing making literature

Now, I'm not a chronic pot user. But I did live with one in college. I can honestly say I never ran across his galvanized pipes, end caps, BBs, and bomb making literature.

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Originally posted by middlein87:

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Originally posted by glellyn:
His sister claims he is a chronic pot smoker and that the tube was his pipe.

Here's a quote from the original article

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airport authorities found two galvanized pipes, end caps, two small containers containing BBs, batteries, two containers with an unknown liquid and bombing making literature

Now, I'm not a chronic pot user. But I did live with one in college. I can honestly say I never ran across his galvanized pipes, end caps, BBs, and bomb making literature.

Emphasis correct?

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Originally posted by Fish:

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Originally posted by middlein87:


Now, I'm not a chronic pot user. But I did live with one in college. I can honestly say I never ran across his galvanized pipes, end caps, BBs, and bomb making literature.

Emphasis correct?

Ha ha. Good one fish. I was repeating the usage of the word from the original article. I didn't stop to think how that would read.

No. I'm the Last Boy Scout. Trust me.

I'm not saying it didn't happen or that this guy wasn't arrested with suspicious materials.

I'm just saying that the story presented in the link reeks of fluff and exagerration. This looks like the type of news source that would be linked to a FoxNews article or the Drudge Report or one of the other right-leaning gossip rags.

I'm speculating, rightly so based on other news sources, that it didn't go down the way it was presented in the article.

Now -- SOMEONE GET OUT THERE AND RAISE THAT ALERT LEVEL TO ORANGE!!!

What's wrong with Fox News?

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Originally posted by glellyn:
This looks like the type of news source that would be linked to a FoxNews article or the Drudge Report or one of the other right-leaning gossip rags.

Like the AP.

The AP still had the part that I was talking about:

"Federal behavioral specialists spotted Kevin Brown acting suspiciously around noon in the ticketing area"

Ah... now it makes sense.

"Ex-Iraq Contractor to Have Bond Hearing
5 hours ago

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An Army veteran and former Iraq contractor accused of trying to bring pipe bomb-making materials onto an airplane is due to appear in an Orlando courtroom.

Kevin Brown has been ordered held without bail while prosecutors review his mental health records. His bond hearing is set for Thursday afternoon.

According to court documents, Kevin Brown told the FBI he wanted to show friends how to build explosives like he saw in Iraq.

Brown was arrested Tuesday at Orlando International Airport after checking luggage."



I thought it was solely another attempt to villify a brown-skinned boogeyman!

Funny to see the aggregate news sites posting articles from one news source claiming this guy was part of Bush's contract armies and others fighting to claim he is not.

Ok.. I think the threat level can move back down to a LIGHTER shade of orange.