This Is How They Protect Us!
The
Latest TSA Horror
Paul Craig Roberts
5
July, 2016
“These
people think they are God. They think they can do anything they
want.”
A partially
blind, partially deaf young woman returning
home from treatment for a brain
tumor was brutally
smashed to the ground by goon tug TSA “security”
while her mother, a nurse, was shoved away.
The
goon thugs responsible should get at least 30 years in a maximum
security prison for assault with intent to kill. But nothing
will happen to them. Their
corrupt bosses always cover up for the psychopaths who occupy so many
“security” and police positions from which they exercise
unaccountable brutality over those of us forced to pay their
salaries.
This
is America today. We
are forced to pay for our own brutilization by a criminal element
that has taken refuge in “security” that “protects us.” We
are in far more danger from the security forces allegedly protecting
us than we are from terrorists.Indeed,
the security forces are the terrorists.
Remember,
during eight years of the Iraq War, US police killed more Americans
than the US lost troops in combat. We needed our soldiers at home
protecting us from the police, not over there “protecting” us
from Iraqis who were not bothering us at all.
The
only way to stop the continuous murder and brutalization of American
citizens by “security” is to give the same jail sentences to the
psychopaths, who comprise a large percentage of police, as are given
to criminals without badges to hide behind. Until this happens, no
one is safe, not even a handicapped young women traveling home from a
hospital with her mother.
The
same prison sentences should be given to executive branch officials
who initiate wars of aggression on the basis of lies and fraud.
These officials are criminals, not “world leaders.”
Read
the article from the Guardian and weep
for your lost country in which we are far less safe from “our”
government than we were under King George.
Indeed with Washington’s record of destroying seven countries in 15
years, no one in the world is safe from the government of “the land
of liberty.”
America
is now justice-proof. “Security”
has so thoroughly inoculated
us against justice that justice
cannot happen in America. Winning
some taxpayer money in a civil lawsuit is not justice. Justice is
prison for the goon thug criminals with badges.
Disabled cancer patient slammed to the
ground by TSA guards, lawsuit claims
Hannah
Cohen, 18, was on her way home from St Jude’s Hospital when a
scanner went off and led to incident that left her ‘physically and
emotionally’ injured
A
disabled teenage cancer patient was injured during a violent arrest
by security agents at Memphis international airport, her family has
alleged in a lawsuit filed against the Transport Security
Administration.
Hannah
Cohen, 18, at the time of her arrest on 30 June 2015, and her mother
had been on their way home to Chattanooga from St Jude’s hospital
in Memphis, where Hannah underwent her final treatment for a brain
tumor.
Hannah
and her mother, Shirley, told the Guardian that the pair had made the
trip hundreds of times, and knew the airport security routine well.
Shirley would usually go through the scanner first and wait for
Hannah on the other side, since Hannah’s tumor, and numerous
surgeries and treatments since she was two years old, had left her
easily confused and frightened in unfamiliar situations.
According
to the complaint, the warning alarm was triggered when Hannah passed
through the body scanners. Hannah attributed the alarm to her shirt’s
design.
“My
shirt – it had sequins,” Hannah told the Guardian, laboring to
speak. According to the complaint:
“You
could see on the screen what it was pointing out,” Shirley said.
She stood to the side, watching, wearing an immobilization boot on a
broken foot.
Agents
told Hannah they needed to take her to a “sterile area” where
they could search her further. She was afraid, Shirley said, and
offered to take off the sequined shirt as she was wearing another
underneath, but a female agent laughed at her.
Seeing
the scene begin to unfold, Shirley hobbled to a supervisor standing
nearby. “She is a St Jude’s patient, and she can get confused,”
she said. “Please be gentle. If I could just help her, it will make
things easier.”
But
soon, a voice on the public address system requested more agents to
report to the checkpoint, Shirley said. “That’s when the armed
guards came.”
The
brain tumor had left Hannah blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and
partially paralyzed, so when the guards grabbed each of her arms, it
startled her, she said. “I tried to push away,” she said. “I
tried to get away.”
The
guards slammed Hannah to the ground, her mother said, smashing her
face into the floor, which the complaint alleges left her “physically
and emotionally” injured.
Shirley
had just picked up her phone from the conveyor belt, and she snapped
a photo of Hannah on the floor: handcuffed, weeping and bleeding.
“Another
guard pushed me back 20ft, in my boot, and told me I couldn’t be
nearby,” said Shirley, a professor of nursing at a university in
Chattanooga.
“I
felt so helpless. I sat down on a bench facing away so I couldn’t
see what they were doing to my daughter.”
The
lawsuit alleges that the TSA did not give Hannah adequate
accommodation to screen her, and discriminated against her because of
her disability. It names the TSA and the Memphis-Shelby County
airport authority and seeks damages that include medical expenses and
for personal injury, both physical and emotional. It calls for a
“reasonable sum not exceeding $100,000 and costs”, and an
undisclosed punitive amount.
The
TSA has not yet responded to the complaint.
Hannah
disappeared behind a door, then went to a hospital, and finally to
the Shelby County jail. After 24 hours apart, the mother and daughter
were reunited in the parking lot of the jail.
Shirley
said she held her daughter, who sobbed, “I’m sorry, Mama.”
The
next morning – now two days without their belongings, which had
made the flight home – the pair appeared before a local judge, who
asked the accused to explain herself.
When
Hannah responded, the judge said: “You’re going to have to speak
up.”
That’s
when Hannah looked up and her hair fell back from her face, revealing
her unseeing eye, surrounded by cuts and contusions.
“The
judge’s eyes got big and round,” Shirley said.
After
inquiring if the pair were from Memphis, the judge recommended they
get legal representation.
The
charges were all dropped two days later, and the court refunded the
$250 in costs the family had paid.
The
TSA did not immediately return a request for comment. But a TSA
spokeswoman, Sari Koshetz, said in a statement that “passengers can
call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for
their particular needs or medical situation”.
“Why
should I do that when we’ve been going through that airport for 17
years?” Shirley said.
“These
people think they are God. They think they can do anything they
want,” she said. “Well, in this country we have the Americans
with Disabilities Act. And if they will do this to a disabled girl,
does that mean they’ll do it to an 80-year-old grandmother? It’s
time for justice.”
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