And still on the subject of images – this time on clothing – an Australian airline passenger stopped from boarding a flight for wearing a T-shirt labelling President Bush a terrorist (nooooo!) has threatened legal action against Australia’s Qantas. Allen Jasson, 55, an Australian IT expert who lives in the UK, was prevented from boarding a London-bound Qantas flight at Melbourne Airport last for wearing a T-shirt of Bush with the tagline “World’s number 1 terrorist.” Qantas said that the T-shirt could have upset other passengers and demanded it be changed for another. But Jasson, who had earlier travelled on a Qantas domestic flight wearing the Bush T-shirt, said his right to freedom of speech had been infringed by Qantas.
The Beetle wonders what would British Airways have made of the 1970 punk era’s favourite God Save the Queen T-shirt designed by British fashion icon Vivienne Westwood depicting the queen with safety pins?
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