Gonzalez, a passenger on an Orlando, Fla.-bound Delta flight, had already raised suspicion when screeners found a laptop computer that he said at first he didn't have.
I think that people are kinda forgetting this part. It's not as if our heroic pastor simply made a little comment and got the book thrown at him. He already established himself as a liar before any of this happened. It sounds to me like he was trying REALLY hard to martyr himself here...