So you've never been to Fenway for a Red Sox-Yankees game, I guess, huh? People do it all the time, and there is no problem with it. Sure, there is some back and forth ribbing between the fans, but it happens and no one calls the cops and asks them to remove the Yankee fan from the staduim because it makes them uncomfortable. Heck, the guy who caught Barry's 756 ball was wearing a Mets jersey in San Francisco and he didn't get evicted.

Plus, I disagree with your assertion that it is bad judgement, as I don't think it appropriate to change my behavior based on the lowest common denominator. The pax didn't wear a shirt saying "I'm like crashinig planes" or something actually offensive. That's why the ovevrreaction of the other pax, the TSA and JetBlue is so unfortunate.

IANAL, and I don't think you are either, so we'll have to let that crowd figure out if it was actually legal or not, but in the mean time I'm actually considering trying to find a similar shirt to wear. I'm not arabic, but I have a pretty good tan, and I'd be interested to see the effect I could inspire.

To your point of people having the right to feel safe, I disagree. People have the right to BE safe. Stopping people from bringing weapons onto planes does that. Stopping people from brining 8 ounces of shampoo onto planes does not. Stopping people from attacking flight crews makes people safe. Having passengers change their clothes does not. What you are supporting is a facade of safety to make folks "feel better" while actually doing nothing to actually make air travel safer. Just imagine if more money was spent screening cargo instead of toiletries. There might be some real safety net positive effect. Instead we have Kip Hawley and his minions coming up with rules that have very little basis in fact.

Nothing went over my head in your posts. I just happen to disagree rather strongly with your point of view. I have some rights, and I'll be dam*ed if I am going to give any of them up because some idiot thinks that a bomb can be concoted from 6 ounces of shampoo and 4 ounces of bath gel, combined with a t-shirt that has arabic writing on it.