Thursday April 6, 2006
Paranoia calling
- Posted by Rob (#1) on April 6, 2006 10:02 CEST
I suppose I'm a terrorism suspect, for I frequently travel to London for punk rock gigs and that's suspicious.
A phone salesman was hauled off a London-bound plane by police after his taste in music aroused terrorism fears.
Harraj Mann, 23, asked a taxi driver to play The Clash's London Calling through the vehicle's stereo.
But the cabbie rang police after he heard the song which includes the line: "War is declared and battle come down"
We can't touch hate-spreading imams with a ten-foot pole but some simple punk lyrics from the 1970s are reason for arrest? Mr. Mann calls it "absurd and ludicrous" and I wholeheartedly agree.