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| given this treatment because he's a black man. Obviously, no proof of what the airline people were thinking or feeling, but...When was the last time a middle-aged white guy was hauled off a plane on suspicion of being a terrorist?...Security theater and racial profiling-- in the year or so after 9/11,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], birdwatching circles were full of stories about harassment by overzealous officials, and most of us experienced at least one or two of these incidents. Birdwatchers are prone to creeping around out-of-the-way places at dawn and dusk and to abruptly pulling their cars over to the side of the road, leaping out and setting up scary looking big spotting scopes on tripods, or worse, laying the scope on the roof of the car to look through. Cops on high alert, understandably perhaps, found these habits deeply unnerving.The areas around airports were of course particularly sensitive, but airports are prime birding spots during the winter since the wide flat spaces attract far northern raptors looking for familiar |
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