Posted on 06/03/2004 6:14:21 AM PDT by Max Combined
DALLAS - A 57-year-old woman says she was ejected from a terminal at the Dallas-Fort Worth International airport after showing military recruits an anti-war campaign poster.
Carole Ward showed the recruits an 8 1/2-by-11 inch poster of a composite illustration of President Bush made up of the faces of soldiers who have died in Iraq. It bore the title "Faces of Death."
Some people found the poster offensive and the woman became belligerent with an American Airlines gate agent, according to Tim Wagner, a spokesman for the airline.
He also said Ward made some passengers feel uncomfortable while waiting to board her plane during a thunderstorm Tuesday night and presented a security threat.
"She's not only going around talking to these recruits, saying they shouldn't join the Army, they shouldn't fight in the war, she's also forcing the poster on them," Wagner told The Dallas Morning News in today's online edition.
Ward, who was returning home to Albuquerque, N.M., from a Libertarian convention in Atlanta, said she started a conversation with a few of several dozen recruits in the airport.
She passed around the poster, that had messages to elect Libertarian Aaron Russo president and to stop a possible military draft.
According to Wagner, some people thought the poster had pictures of soldiers' bodies and said the material definitely could be "considered offensive."
Although Wagner said the gate agent asked airport police to remove the woman from the secure side of the terminal, airport spokesman Ken Capps said that the officers only monitored the situation and Ward left on her own.
She says she was forced to leave the hotel without her bag and spend the night in a hotel.
Gee! That is really too bad.
Where was the ACLU when she needed them?
Her luggage or her stash?
You reap what you sow, if you pull that kind of crap in an airport these days you deserve to be kicked out.
Now shut up and quit whining.
I wonder if they made a picture of Osama from the photos of the WTC victims?
closet full of brown shirts, right?
I am sure that the ACLU will be looking into this.
But...but...I thought protesters only oppose the war, not the people who might have to fight it? [/dim]
So you think it's appropriate to pull this kind of crap and cause disruptions in an airport?
Go ahead and try it yourself. I've seen people pulled out of line for having a bad attitude with respect to the security checkpoints, doing what she did was inviting to be thrown out.
In fact, my money would be on that being her sole intent.
For the record, the brown shirt thing is old.
I've seen that picture. It's got over 1400 faces in it. Many are dupes. It's a fraud.
-Mal
How did she get past security without a boarding pass?
I think I'll go to the rat meeting in my territory and pass out pictures of frogs with Kerry's face on them. That shoudn't cause any problem, right?
1) This is exactly what Larry Elder was writing about in his 5/27/04 column, "Bashing President Bush Takes over as our No. 1 National Pastime." The point of the article is that the Bush-haters have lost all sense of civility in their relentless, public, hostile, and rude rantings, overturning our tradition of not discussing politics and religion in polite company for fear of offending someone.
2) If the goal of this woman's rude stunt was to discourage soldiers from fulfilling their duty, then why is this not considered treason? There is a difference between holding a placard in a place of public discourse (e.g. Lafayette Park in D.C. or Hyde Park in London) and bringing one to an airport and then specifically targeting service members (she may not have known they were going to be there, but she did single them out once she saw them, from the sounds of the article).
Henry Lee II
"Leftists are crazed and violent people,
with the blood of millions on their hands.”
Right on, Bro...can't have any more of that free speech thingie while there's a war on!
Anyone who critisizes the government is now a "security threat".
Welcome to Amerika.
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