Paranoia in the Skies
Last week the Terror in the Skies article was all over the Internet, on discussion forums and a favorite of "food for thought" emails. The way it is written, it sure sounds like a chilling story of a disaster barely averted.
I thought it was a bit over the top. A group of Middle Easterners in clothing with Arabic writing on it, carrying conspicuous instrument cases? I mean, would you dress and behave this way if you were an evil-doer?
As it turns out, it was just a group of real musicians on a trip to a bona fide gig, behaving the way any group of people might behave on a trip. Once again, Snopes.com comes through with the story behind the story.
Take a healthy dose of well nurtured paranoia with some good ol' prejudice stirred in, and season with with an unspecified code orange alert: can you really blame a "journalist" for turning her harrowing experience into an article?
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Sad to say there will be many that don't read/hear the true story and continue to spread this stuff. Any author that uses Ann Coulter as a significant reference, as Jacobsen did, is suspect of any reasoning ability.