In this situation common sense should have prevailed. The gent should have been politely requested to cover up or change in the interests of maintaining a calm environment on the plane. Off the plane is a whole different kettle of fish.
I wonder how a T of Bush and Laden kissing with the message Peace would have been received? Any Quantas officios reading?

Freedom of speech and the United States Constitution is what my family fought for. I still defend and use my freedom! What people dont understand anymore is we the people, are the ones who run this country, and until we all ban together to take our rightfull place in leading the country, it will only get worse and the hate for America will grow. More of our children will die for oil. We must bring our voices together as one to make a change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitutio n#The_Bill_of_Rights_.281.E2.80.9310.29

“ASSHOLEs like this Jasson Jackass shows their ingratitude..”

Glenda,
You are funny--we should be grateful to Bush and Cheney. Those two have constantly promoted terrorism through their incompetent international policies.

You don’t have to worry about having your “fuckin neck off” your head is already separated from your body--you’re dead from the neck up!

Idiots like that Allen Jasson ("Jackass") don’t know who the real MUSLIM terrorists are out there that wants to cut his fuckin neck off.  In meanwhile, BUSH/CHENEY has done an excellent job of warding off further terrorist attacks on US soil and have decommissioned thousands of terrorists and have the rest on the run....For that great effort, ASSHOLEs like this Jasson Jackass shows their ingratitude...this is how the idiots have emerged out of their fuckin cockroach holes...that fuckin British shithead should put the uniform and do his stinkin share of the fight against the real TERRORISTS, instead of jerking off at airports.

firstly, the shirt doesnt offend me and i actually agree with it (and think it highly humerous) however…

would you want to be stuck thousands of meters in the air with someone wearing an inflammatory shirt that would probably piss off someone else and could start a fight in the middle of nowhere? 

My other half is afraid of flying as it is, she would freak out if someone wearing a shirt like that was on our flight.  no thanks. 

we in australia are VERY tollerant of people speaking their opinions, but in a situation like on a plane I’ll thank you very much for just kicking back and not starting anything.

Mr Jasson has just experienced what many have long suspected in Australia. 
Lest we forget? 
WE have forgotten the terrorism of living under a nazi fascist state and have NOW reverted back to one.
Wont be long we will have to be “identified” with a biometric scan or microchipped ID card that will “assess” our fitness to use or utilise public or private utilities and services.  Those who dont measure up will be metered out.

Welcome to the New World Order.... It has already begun.

When Bush kills a million people he calls it WAR,
and his followers think that sanitizes the whole operation.

Pithy comment, 49264.

It’s interesting to see how airport security has moved beyond invasion of privacy to stifling freedom of speech.

Sometimes the measure of accuracy of a statement is the length to which the opposition will go to suppress it.  Given Bush’s proclivities, I’m surprised Bush did not just have the traveler shot.  Perhaps Cheney’s memo on that subject had not reached airport security.

[more irreverence at resistence-is-possible.blogspot.com]

If terrorism meant fighting crime, then Bush would be Batman and Blair would be Robin.  Our guy started this illegal war; the guy in England signed up for the lobster/steak buffet.

Why don’t we establish a dress code that says--never wear your heart on your sleeve, or your political ideology on your chest; we can just walk around in a state of shock, and wonder how we all became so nuts.

Hell, I’m offended by George the Lesser but that doesn’t seem to register anywhere. And anyone who is offended by the T-Shirt should be. Their Prime Minister is another Bush wannabe!

I heard about this story several weeks ago. Prisonplanet.com, baby.

I was recently screened for wearing through the airport a shirt with a picture of Jefferson and the quote: “Every generation needs a new revolution.”

Who the hell do TSA think they are? CENSORSHIP in our airports, what’s next? Can you wear a truth shirt on a public bus? “Papers! Show your papers!” Fuck this corrupt NAZI regime in the white house. George Bush is Aleister Crowley’s grandson. The evil satanist. Google Barbara Bush Aleister Crowley to find out for yourself. It turns out we’re worse off than we thought.

It’s time for a revolution!

And yes, I trust alternate media sources much more than CFR, Tri-lateral controlled outlets.

What a joke!  Fascism here we come! As Ben Franklin said, “They that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Here are two t-shirts from my collection.
I wear as frequently as possible:

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/american+taliban/-/pv_des ign_prod/p_1235562.26095754/pNo_26095754/id_7927410/fpt_/op t_/c_360/pg_

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/real+snakes+on+a+plane/-/ pv_design_prod/p_867540.69580532/pNo_69580532/id_13890654/f pt_/opt_/c_360/pg_

So far I have not been kicked out of or off anything.  I’m getting this one soon, though, and that may change the above statement:

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/no+child+left+behind/-/pv _design_details/pg_1/id_9969217/opt_/fpt_/c_360/

Dissent is patriotic.

Goffredo

Comment #49089 by Quy Tran on 1/22 at 6:08 pm

Hey Mr. Jasson,

If Bush was #1 terrorist, so who’s # 2 ? Tony “little poodle” Blair ?

Please don’t make losing face of real terrorist !

NO QUY.

RUSH LIMBAUGH IS #2

Stopping this guy is just silly and does nothing but put into question just how effective airport security really is. It reminds me of the people tapped to help “rebuild” Iraq and how they didn’t need to be able bodies only Bush supporters. I wonder if airport screeners are similar.

I personally am waiting on the U.S. Terrorist Playing Cards set. I’m sure there are enough administration officials to fill out a full deck of cards. The only problem is: does George Bush go on the Ace or the Joker? If only this was the most vexing problem facing our country…

applause. now where can I get one?

Sometimes the measure of accuracy of a statement is the lengths to which the opposition will go to suppress it.  Given that the t-shirt proclaimed Bush was the World’s #1 Terrorist, I’m surprised Bush did not have the traveler shot.  Perhaps Cheney’s memo on that did not reach airport security.

[more irreverence at resistence-is-possible.blogspot.com]

Stupid shirt!

Everybody knows Cheney’s #1.

Muslim women, (if they’re really women) in burkas scare the bejeebers out of me but, after a certain age, it’s probably for the best.

where can i get one?

I agree with the message on the shirt and I applaud Mr. Jasson for standing up for “freedon of speech” for all of us.

In what way is a t-shirt a security threat?

If t-shirts were outlawed, only outlaws would wear t-shirts. -Kevo

The story continues...now the shirt is online at ebay australia. hahahahahaha

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Bush-Worlds-Number-1-Terrorist- Shirt-Medium-Very-Hot_W0QQitemZ200071919994QQihZ010QQcatego ryZ55539QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

the real question is, where do i get one of those shirts.  i will be doing alot of traveling soon.

Whatever Bush is,is a fact,and he has wreacked havoc and brought about misery to millions of innocent around the world.And he will continue to do so.It seems no one has the power to stop him,this so ridiculous.Its always like this,the tyrants of this world have always been able to inflict misery and rational simply sit and let this happen.I must say the civilized world has done more damage and destruction to this world than the so called barbarians and the terrorists as Bush and the rest his team and Neocons and fundamentalist christians call their opponents.
The handful of these terrorists and criminals have been able make the civil man lose so much of his resolve and reasoning and belief in sanctity of life and liberty and freedom.Shame on us.

May this send a clear message to terrorists (at least the less clever ones):  when attempting to hijack an airliner do not wear shirts with provocative messages printed on them. 

Thanks Quantas, for tipping off the evildoers. 

Now the hijackers will dress like the rest of us, making us feel even less safe.

At least we can rest assured that the few who do manage to wear anti-bush T-shirts aboard airliners aren’t terrorists, leaving the other 99 percent suspect.

Interesting how little things have changed in the last 60-some years. Hell, in all of human history, apparently. Democracy is preached, mostly not practiced in any serious way (Latin America looking as a possible exception. Dobbs was on this evening whining about “Chavinistas”). Well, members of the elite classes, who are raised to know and understand their interests, are allowed to practice dollar democracy (one buck, one vote), not so much Mr. Jasson, you, me, and the remainder of the multitude. We here in the U.S. will be allowed to choose between the biblically named Hillary and John before long. Both have been staunch backers of massive bloodshed, along with the President pictured on Mr. Jasson’s T-shirt—in the name of something or other: WMD (security, which they claim is ours, when they mean their own), democracy, overthrow of a past ally, oil… It’s been about both “security” and oil, interest in which is rationalized as essential to Americans’ and others’ economic security (thus, theft is give rational grounding), and not, needless to say, to profiteering. The democratic era has meant a tendency by officialdom to conflate its and their backers’ interests with that of the multitude. Mr. Jasson’s shirt expresses in part the lie that lies at the heart of the Deus ex machina. No wonder he was deemed a danger!

Let us hope that one day the “gate-keeper” will refuse to follow orders from superiors, though given the fact his or her job hung in the balance, he or she has my sympathy too. Coercion and intimidation are by now subtler arts than they were when practiced by Goeing, Goebbels, Vyshinsky and McCarthy. Mr. Jasson was informed his shirt might disturb passengers, etc. This claim, imparted to Mr. Jasson, also tells us something about what officialdom thinks of airline passengers, indeed of all of us; namely, that airline passengers, all of us, are sheep who are easily frightened. Flight 93 passengers were not sheep, but officialdom—in its infinite stupidity and blindness to what is human—makes the most absurdly ridiculous assumptions, so frightened are they.

What an incredible story. There are some true heros out there and Allen Jasson is one of them.

But, the real question is, would they have done the same thing to him if there was a photo of Osama Bin Laden on his T-shirt?

One tee shirt is worth much more than a 1,000 words when Qantas staff is terrorized.  21st century tee shirts seem to be more dangerous then those manufactured forty years ago, when Allen Jasson probably wore one protesting the Viet Nam War—-back then tee shirts were made out of cotton, and didn’t pose a security threat. 

However, these modern tees seem to be made out of some sort of terrifying substance that could actually cause airplanes to crash.  These tees are so frightening, that by wearing one to express dissent is considered an act of war.

Last year another 21st century tee shirt was deemed highly toxic, it was worn by Cindy Sheehan at the SOTU, her shirt said, “2245 dead, how many more?” She unzipped her jacket to reveal her dangerous tee, when an officer spotted her shirt and yelled; “Protester.” He then ran over to her, hauled her out of her seat and roughly shoved her up the stairs.

So let this be a warning to all who purchase 21st century tees, they are manufactured with a substance which is so scary that in the hands of the powerful, they are capable of destroying all fibers of freedom.

“First, they came for the Muslims...”

Sometimes the truth is frightening. Take away our freedom os speech to keep us ignorant.

Congratulations to Mr. Jasson. I would make the same choice. In my world, if someone takes offence at what I believe and/or what I say, THAT’S THEIR PROBLEM… and I won’t allow them to make it mine. I used to fly a LOT… and if you want “offensive” try being forced to sit anywhere near a parent with TWO SQUEALING BABIES for a few hours. Now THAT’S offensive!

There are very few places you can’t get to without using aircraft. There are very few situations of such urgency that require that anyone needs to fly. Ships and trains are far more civilized modes of transport.

Nothing would make me, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, happier than to see the majority of the commercial airlines GO BANKRUPT and be disbanded. We simply don’t need them… or at least I don’t.

With today’s communications - our ability to set up full colour, full stereo, real-time AV links from/to anyplace, there’s simply no reason to be hauling tons of self-important, flabby-assed egomaniacs all over the planet so they can “do business.”

If I were Mr. Jasson, I would SUE Qantas for a FULL REFUND of whatever fare was paid. Qantas rejected HIM… they owe him a full refund. It’s ridiculous for any sensible person to interpret his T-shirt as a security threat.

Shame on Quantas Airlines. As an American citizen I can say unequivically that many of my countrymen believe the same. George Bush has acted in the fashion of those terrorists he seeks to prosecute in this illegal war; it should be shouted from the rooftops everywhere. He has stolen an election, lied repeatedly to the country he is supposed to be serving, raped the constitution, broken laws with his own brand of impunity, and illegally invaded another country on trumped-up reasons. He has acted in a way that has resulted in the death of thousands of our young men and women for reasons that appear to have been primarily those of profit for his friends. He has made this country LESS safe, not more safe. He should be impeached and tried for war crimes.

The truth hurts those who live with their heads in the sand.

Hey Mr. Jasson,

If Bush was #1 terrorist, so who’s # 2 ? Tony “little poodle” Blair ?

Please don’t make losing face of real terrorist !