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Nick George Detained Over Arabic Flashcards, Suing Police (VIDEO)

First Posted: 04/12/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:30 PM ET

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The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a college student who was arrested by the TSA and detained for five hours over a set of Arabic-language flash cards he was carrying.

Nick George, a student at Pomona College in California, was grilled by the TSA on "who did 9/11" and asked by FBI agents whether he was a communist after airport security officers found Arabic-English language learning cards in his luggage last summer, according to news reports and the ACLU.

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The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a college student who was arrested by the TSA and detained for five hours over a set of Arabic-language flash cards he was carrying. Nick George, a student a...
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a college student who was arrested by the TSA and detained for five hours over a set of Arabic-language flash cards he was carrying. Nick George, a student a...
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dante2810
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03:24 PM on 02/18/2010
Oh yeah.. He sure does fit the profile.

Republicans and right wing talk show host were screaming after the christmas day bomber that all middle easter or muslim men needed to be profiled..... and look at what something like that can lead too, American citizens being detained simply because of some flashcards. Yes this incident happened before the bombing attempt but the end result would be the same.

When you give law enforcement more subjective power over objective, then you end up with the very prejudice and tunnel vision displayed in this case.

But hey, wasn't that Bin Laden's plan all along? To turn us into what we have become, a police state, so they can turn around to all those uneducated youth they are recruiting and say "see, we told you that the US hates muslims and is trying to round us all up...we must fight off their attempts to destroy our faith".
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SteepleAston
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11:24 PM on 02/13/2010
Is it now illegal in the United States to be a student of one of the 5 official languages of the United Nations?
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evanrkg
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12:15 PM on 02/11/2010
HuffPo needs to get their legal terminology straight -- if he was 'detained' than he was not 'arrested'. No charges were brought against him.
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Matt D Aguiar
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10:51 AM on 02/14/2010
The guy was handcuffed and locked in a cell, according to his attorney, and just because TSA and the FBI didn't use the word "arrest" doesn't mean that he was not actually, physically, and materially under arrest. The arbitrary and capricious use-- or failure to use the word "arrest" while he was prevented from moving freely by idiots with no respect for his rights as a United States citizen is indefensible in a nation of laws and not men.
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thepoliticalcat
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07:36 PM on 02/10/2010
What is this BS? Good grief, these bed-wetters will be the death of The Great Society yet. Can't we get rid of Il F@scisti deBouchebags?
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thegloriouscause
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05:23 PM on 02/10/2010
the TSA and Homeland security are not making us safer, but the cost to manage them is making us poorer.
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