Posted on 12/21/2002 11:33:05 AM PST by Libertarian Billy Graham
I was only 2 weeks pregnant with my first child, a son, when my husband and I flew to California to visit relatives. Even though the doctor had not confirmed it, I realized after arriving in California that I was pregnant.
How could I know so soon? After several years of trying and several failed pregnancies, I could tell the early signs (almost immediate morning sickness, heightened sense of smell, strong reactions to unpleasant odors, etc). When a vagrant got on the trolley car and sat several seats down from me, I became so physically ill I had to get off at the next stop. At that moment, I knew, and informed my husband.
When shocked me the most was our return flight home. I felt the pressure on my uterus the entire time. I'd traveled in the past and never had flight sickness before - not this time. It was actually painful to be on the plane. When we reached DFW, I literally collapsed to my knees on the walkway outside the airport and was ill.
My younger and only sister was married when I was seven months pregnant. Since she and my family live in NY and I live in TX, I did not attend. For a couple so concerned about the health and well-being of their child, they took a huge risk, IMO.
As for the conduct of the screener, it was not acceptable.
I traveled just last week to NY to see the family. My husband and I pulled up with our "dreaded" minivan, unloaded a pile of suitcases, two carseats, a toddler, a "terrible two-ster", a diaper back, a knapsack of toys and snacks, my pocketbook, and my husband's CD case. We sailed through security as if 9-11 never happened.
I don't know about other places, but DFW and LGA were wonderful.
Oh, I didn't realise I was lecturing. I thought I was just expressing an opinion. Funny that, I can do that in good old Catholic repressed Ireland on the internet, and am met by people who tell me not to. Freedom of expression? *LOL* No wonder people globally get the wrong impression. Happily, as a journalist, I continue to get the right message from America out to the populice..(and that is a Conservative message btw)
Yeah. THAT'S what ALL we Europeans think. EUROPE has a Ji-Had of it's own on America.. </sarcasm off>
Now when you take your tin foil hat off...maybe we can talk rationally? Eh?
To: Happygal
Well said, ChemistCat.
The Patriot Act was our government's official notice that our society is no longer a free society.
"Terrorism" is just an excuse.
I might have missed this otherwise. It's a good thing I'll be going to sleep soon because I have a felling of intense anger.
Congressmen know this is going on. They have the power to put an end to it. And they don't.
ML/NJ
To: Libertarian Billy Graham
I wasn't even there, and I'm "bent" about it, A CA Guy .
Their rights were violated. Their very freedom was shown to be a threat to our government's regular operations.
We live in a tyranny, A CA Guy.
I was "bent" about it BEFORE the Patriot Act made the tyranny official.
Some people also believe in Santa Claus.
How's your dog?
To: exodus
An intense anger shared by anyone with a mind, ml/nj .
Yes, Congress knew what they did. The Patriot Act was planned, and it had nothing to do with terrorism.
WHAT'S the difference.
We're both women?
There is a difference, little lassie.
Moshing a daughter of The Emerald Isle's hooters in ol' Blighty is somewhat reasonable since the IRA (they're Irish, y'know) has committed uncountable terrorist acts there and elsewhere against British targets.
Someone squeezing a pregnant woman's breats in Oregon, and someone squeezing MY breasts in Heathrow. WHAT'S the difference? We're both women.To: Happygal
I can't agree, kako.
Privacy is a right. The fact that the Irish and English have been intimidated into abandoning their privacy does not negate the right itself.
I don't like seeing that same intimidation used against us, by our own government.
I can't believe that Americans would defend the loss of our freedom with the words, "it's for our protection."
Sorry?
I already SAID I don't mind being profiled.
Why do Americans ALL of a sudden think they shouldn't when half of the terrorists blowing them up already got US passports? (Don't make me vomit now!!!!!)
I'm a conservative
I'm ALSO a realist.
Moshing a daughter of The Emerald Isle's hooters in ol' Blighty is somewhat reasonable since the IRA (they're Irish, y'know) has committed uncountable terrorist acts there and elsewhere against British targets.To: kako
You have no problem with giving up your right of privacy, Happygal? I don't consider that a "conservative" position.
Freedom isn't something governments are authorized to interfere with. Infringement of our rights isn't something a true conservative would accept.
I firmly believe in Franklin's sage maxim about "those who trade liberty for security deserve neither". My previous posts on other threads should bear that out.
I'm not one of the sheeple though sometimes I feel like the herd is going to trample me to death as I go the other way.
Having ones titties moshed by some Federal security guard certainly violates that.
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