Fear of the 'Fro

[marmar]

By Susy Solis, NBCDFW.com





Is it possible to hide weapons in your hair?

The Transportation Security Administration thinks so.

Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after she went through security, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reports.

Brantley said an agent asked her if someone had checked her hair. She said no one had and continued on her way. She then heard someone yelling as she went down the escalator to catch her flight. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/21/7880789-womans-afro-prompts-tsa-pat-down

[BeHereNow]

1. You've GOT to be kidding me-

This is an Onion News release, right?
Please tell me so...
BHN

[ChandlerJr]

2. Turban suicide bomber does not kill peace hopes

The assassination of former Afghan president and leading peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani is a blow to President Karzai's government and the gambit to come to a peace deal with the Taliban.

It is the latest of a series of assassinations this summer of key figures in the Karzai family and its political entourage, including his own brother Ahmed Walid Karzai and the mayor of Kandahar.

The murder of Mr Rabbani, carried out by a man posing as a Taliban negotiator with a bomb in his turban, is in line with a string of killings and attacks on landmark buildings by the Haqqani clan of the Taliban.


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23989336-turban-suicide-bomber-does-not-kill-peace-hopes.do

[marmar]

4. Did the man in Afghanistan walk thru a scanner? I suspect not.

[msongs]

3. tough girls with razor blades in their hair...it's not a new idea nt

[KansDem]

5. "Is it possible to hide weapons in your hair?"

I read the biography of George Jackson, "Road to Hell," who was killed during a botched getaway attempt in 1971. He supposedly snuck a gun into prison in his "afro:"

The Assassination of George Jackson
George Jackson was a powerful voice in revolutionary times. The trial of the Soledad Brothers was coming up at the end of the summer of 1971, and the powers expected that George Jackson would put them on trial for their tremendous crimes. And they wanted him dead.

On August 21, 1971 the authorities killed George Jackson. The full details of that day may never be known. But this much is known: they murdered this revolutionary brother in cold blood to silence him.

The Official Version of Events: The authorities claimed that Panthers outside had put an automatic pistol, ammunition and an Afro wig into a small tape recorder. George Jackson's lawyer was supposed to have smuggled the tape recorder to Jackson in prison. George, they claimed, hid the gun under the Afro wig, planning to stash it in his cell for a later escape. He then supposedly walked, wearing this gun and wig, 50 yards to the triple maximum security of San Quentin's special "Adjustment Center." There they claimed that an alert guard saw something shiny in his hair. Jackson supposedly made a break for it, sparking an uprising. The authorities said Jackson finally ran out into the prison yard, gun in hand, heading for a 20-foot wall, and was mowed down by gunfire. The officials claimed they found a 9mm automatic. Police records traced the weapon to BPP Field Marshal Landon Williams.

This story had been set up so that the authorities could arrest George's contacts and comrades. His lawyer feared assassination and went underground for fourteen years. Landon Williams was arrested.

Prison authorities were so arrogant that they didn't even bother to construct a careful lie. They assumed they would be automatically believed, as they had so many times in the past.

But Jackson's lawyer had gone through a battery of metal detectors and searches and could hardly have brought in a gun and ammo without police approval.

http://revcom.us/a/1230/jackson.htm

...but it appeared to have been a ruse put out in the media by law-enforcement officials.


Maybe the TSA read "Road to Hell." :shrug:

[Catherine Vincent]

6. That's an afro?

I grew up with these kinds of afros: