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What harm was done?

Friend, you're out of line. 9/11 was perpetrated by muslim men between the ages of 18 and 40 from the Middle East - NOT Lithuanian grandmothers!! There's not only a difference, there is a distinct difference. For years, we have demanded that the TSA STOP treating grannies and little girls like this and start profiling the type of people who actually perpetrated 9/11.

Think about whether you would want YOUR Lithuanian, non-English speaking mother-in-law to be treated this way by YOUR government. The lady didn't come here with evil intent, she came to meet her grandson.

[Hostage]

She was also left in a room crying, with her cell phone taken away, stripped down, in a foreign country and not able to communicate because she didn't know the language. If I was put in a similar situation I would be scared too.

It is a terribly awful story and that's why I posted it. Sure we will get over it but I don't want her to go back home thinking America is an awful place. She is sure happy to see the baby though but I know she will tell family in Lithuania just how it happened and with the size of the family back there, 40 cousins and aunts, uncles and so on it will be news. It will be news that stinks.

It reminds me a little when an old college friend got pulled over in Baja California by the Mexican Federales. He had to pay them $100 or so to be let go. He said he hadn't done anything wrong and I believed him because at that time everyone even the local news people were talking about how Americans were getting shook down in Baja.

I may yet give this story to the media along with a list of ideas that have popped up here in this thread.