Man in a Shed: Why does BMI self censor ?

Would BMI prevent a passenger from carrying a Bible to Saudi Arabia ? Then why stop a stewardess ?

Again we have cowering westerners doing the work of oppression on behalf of regime's and religions that haven't even asked them to do it.

Now Saudi Arabia's ban on religious books that aren't the Koran is strange, and in some ways an implicit admission of the weakness of the states faith. ( Who can forget the trouble caused to Saudia when it was pointed out that the letters s and a outlined a cross on the side of their airplanes - they had to repaint the whole lot !) But its not the business of BMI.

[ Old saudi livery - with added cross between s and a. Maybe BA should have a go ?]

However, I do think its time the Saudi's where challenged on their religious intolerance.

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman