Posted on 07/02/2016 5:37:04 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Yet another example of an innocent American attempting to travel by plane in the U.S. (Pic: WREG)
It seems people aren’t just suing the TSA for missing their flights these days.
An 18-year-old partially deaf girl, blind in one eye and with limited ability to walk and talk, spent 17 years of her life travelling between Chattanooga and Memphis for treatment of her brain tumor at a children’s hospital. Her last experience returning home from treatment via the Memphis Airport, however, left her beaten, blooded, and locked up in a Shelby County jail like the potential terrorist the TSA thinks she is.
Via Reason:
When Hannah went through the metal detector at the airport, an alarm went off. Disoriented by the noise, she did not immediately cooperate with TSA agents who asked to conduct further screening.
Shirley Cohen tried to inform the agents about her daughter’s disabilities, she told television station WREG, but airport police kept her away. That’s when the situation between Hannah and the TSA officials became violent:
“She’s trying to get away from them but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor. There was blood everywhere,” said [Shirley].
The family is suing for a “reasonable sum not exceeding $100,000 and costs.” Reason reports that when asked about it, (an apparently heartless) TSA spokeswoman responded with, “passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical situation.”
Oh really? Can they call ahead to learn more about how TSA agents have little to no discernment whatsoever between a suspected terrorist and a scared teen with mental and physical disabilities? Can a traveler call to find out just what kind of abuse they are most likely to receive from TSA thugs if they are already unfortunate enough to suffer from a “medical situation” when they are going to fly on a plane?
Versions of this same story come out of airports so often, the nation has sadly gotten used to this open show of innocent Americans being beaten like slaves at airports.
The psychology behind that choice is a bad one...
We are on the known flyer list, hoping that will help. The artificial internal appliances don't help. They usually lead to excessive groping.
Good for you——but most people are sheeple and have no clue (they can’t “think” critically after years of conditioning/brainwashing.) I even had to fly through the New Age fascist system last Christmas, since I could not spend 4 days driving across the country and 4 days driving back.
The System is set in stone——it is too much for one person to dismantal this totalitarian, unconstitutional, draconian system, which is backed by satanists on the SCOTUS and people planted in the “justice” (lol) system,
We need a complete Revolution to take back the Constitution and restore it-—not “replace” it with some inferior document (Mark Levine). We need a lot of “courts” removed/destroyed and all these irrational lawyer “laws/regulations” removed and parasitical organizations removed (like IRS, NSA—all the Marxist systems have to be removed. Local control of police, of schools, of cities.
The Constitution is very clear/and there is no improvement in the Original document at all People have been thoroughly dumbed-down since the American Revolution (on purpose)....to force us into a totalitarian hell-hole where no Free Will (choice) and Individualism/Truth/Science (Natural Law) (male/female/family) exists. TSA is a fascist, unconstitutional system—and HAS to be removed yesterday.
Maybe it’s true. What about that “psychology”?
Went through Mickey Leland International in Houston in 1991. It was minority occupied territory then. Unaccountable uniformed thugs in brown uniforms. Yecch.
Oh, I agree. We should instead throw flowers at them. That'll stop the tyranny!
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"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." --Mark Twain
Only half joking, don’t tease me.
you can’t build an empire without duplication of the ABC agencies. The BFI was supposed to be for homeland security in the first place. The whold gubment is a joke but it is a crude filthy joke on us.
I thought I might travel when I retire but not under conditions like this. I am sick of driving. We bought and remodeled a very nice Airstream thinking we might take some trips. I am doubtful of that now and the Airstream may be for sale. I’ll see how it goes first.
I’ve flown all over the world but no more for me. Not with things like they are. I don’t need to and dont’ want to.
I pity the people who must fly though.
OMG!! ANIMALS!!! Probably 5 women in Burkas went thru without being screened!!
These TSA agents are a bunch of thugs. They beat a young girl like that but lay a red carpet for muzzie terrorists.
TSA and Homeland security is another W disaster. It just allowed for more big government. Homeland Security was set up to help the different intelligence agencies better communicate. If our government is given an opportunity to expand, they go all out.
Amen to that.
But what would Jeh Johnson do if this went back to the rightful agency, the BFI?
Youse gots to have jobs with pensions and benefits for the bruthas. Don’t you know?
This fall I am going to my 50th high school reunion in Arizona. I live in Florida. Everybody advises me to fly. No way. It's a 4,500 mile round trip and I am driving. Why? Because no TSA jerk is going to be manhandling my junk at the airport. Simple as that.
I am not afraid of flying. I just choose to control my own destiny and avoid situations like they have at the airports nowadays. It's a choice.
How about a little disclosure on your part. LE by chance?
This child is partially deaf, blind in one eye, and has a brain tumor. My heart rips our for her. I normally don’t agree with many lawsuits, but in this case I hope her family sues the TSA to hell.
Bush I and Bush II did a helluva job. This places them in the Obama category. They paved the way for him and they play kissy-face with the Clinton duo.
Cheney was a two-faced crooked politician. He ran the Bush II show. While he was a Congressman from Wyoming he pretended he was a Conservative. After his political career had ended he addressed the CFR and stated that now he could let it be known that he is, indeed, a card-carrying member of that evil cabal.
Trump, on the other hand, is not a politician and has no ties to the CFR or the establishment Republicrats.
No wonder they’re crapping in their pants. No one can get to him.
I hate these lazy-assed government employees.
They are another gift from Bush II that makes BO’s job easier to accomplish his goal to change America into a Frankenstein monster.
$100K is way too low.
My wife and I have in our 56 years together traveled all over the world, but I can’t get her on an airplane any longer. She gets upset with me when I blow up at these ant-brained friskers. I always get extra attention due to the heavy concentration of metal in my body. They treat me like sh-t and I get fed up and insult a few of them.
I can honestly say that I despise the central socialist government and the Democrat Party. The Republicrat party is one that I hold in contempt!
Trump!!!!!
I'm sure they have a few Caucasian Iranians or Chechens in Full Burka working the lines. You don't know their white because you can't see their faces.
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