This Is How They Protect Us!
This Is How They Protect Us!
The Latest TSA Horror
“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 good tugs 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 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. Photograph: Courtesy of
Shirley Cohen
Matthew Teague in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Saturday 2 July 2016 14.17 BSTLast
modified on Saturday 2 July 201617.42 BST
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.
Hannah Cohen Photograph:
Courtesy of Shirley Cohen
“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.”
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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