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It's sad and rediculous how people view other just cos they're not indigenous
It is time to ask - do Sweden have any Swedish newspaper?
We need to know this kind of thing. People are associated with culture! Their culture is destroying the world. When will we get off our butts and do something about it?
By Pete Williams, NBC News
In what investigators say is another episode of a drunk and unruly airline passenger, an American Airlines direct flight from New York to Los Angeles landed last night in Denver after a man became unruly and hit a flight attendant. This time, the government is filing serious charges.
Federal prosecutors offer the following account of what happened.
They say the passenger, Varoujan Khodjamirian, had several drinks and became loud and disruptive about 90 minutes into Flight 21, a Boeing 767-200 with about 160 passengers onboard. When those sitting near him complained, they were re-seated, but he started kicking the seats in front of him.
When flight attendants were unable to quiet him down, they moved him to the last row of seats, but he continued to be loud and hit one of them in the face. He also yelled, "I kill you children. I kill your mother. I will beat you all down and kill you," along with several obscenities. Flight attendants handcuffed him with plastic restraints, and two of them actually sat on him until the plane landed in Denver, where Khodjamirian was arrested.
He's been charged with interfering with flight crew members and attendants, a crime which provides a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Khodjamirian lives in Long Island, N.Y., and is of Armenian descent. He has requested a Russian interpreter.
If they were a immigrant and more Juicily Muslim. oh man they have undoubtedly been trained terrorists from al-qayeda.
And offcourse, as they are Swedish, so it wasn't a crime, the boys are mentally challenged and they need proper psychological care. Go Ahead.
It's far more worrying that these kids won't be locked up for life or will be forced to pay for all damage caused. Instead insurance pays for the damage and raises the fees for your average hardworking Swede.
Anyway, is not this discussion in itself witness to humans being poor at multiculturalism? We immidiately group up and turn against each other, "they did it!"?