Politech: John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wearing “Suspected Terrorist button<\/a><\/p>\nThe steward returned with Capt. Peter Hughes. The captain requested, and then demanded, that I remove the button (they called it a “badge”). He said that I would endanger the aircraft and commit a federal crime if I did not take it off. I told him that it was a political statement and declined to remove it. They turned the plane around and brought it back to the gate, delaying 300 passengers on a full flight.<\/bq><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is ridiculous. John Gilmore, a respected tech journalist, was refused on a BA flight, because he wouldn’t remove a political message from a 1 inch button he was wearing on his lapel. This whole censorship in the name of anti-terrorism is reaching ridiculous proportions. Politech: John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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