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DESTIN, Fla. (AP) – The family of a gravely ill 95-year-old woman says federal inspectors wouldn’t let her mother board a plane because her adult diaper was wet, setting off alarms.
Jean Weber said Monday her mother was trying to board a flight from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to Detroit on June 18. Weber says she helped her mother, Lena Reppert, through the scanning machines. That’s when the Transportation Security Administration screener pulled them aside and said there was a suspicious spot on Reppert’s diaper.
The woman ultimately took off the wet diaper so she could be cleared in time for her flight.
Reppert is suffering from leukemia and wants to buried in Hastings, Mich.
The TSA says its inspectors handled the situation correctly and professionally and didn’t require Reppert to remove her diaper.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/06/27/tsa-re-inspects-elderly-woman-over-wet-diaper/DESTIN, Fla. (AP) – The family of a gravely ill 95-year-old woman says federal... more
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Two Muslim men were removed from a Delta commuter flight operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines Friday after the pilot refused to fly with them on board.
Masudur Rahman, an Arabic-language instructor at the University of Memphis and Mohamed Zaghloul, a religious leader in the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis told the AP they were removed from a flight leaving Memphis International Airport, heading for Charlotte, after the pilot refused to takeoff.
According to Charlotte-area station WBTV, the men have "retained counsel and the US attorney's office has already been contacted about the incident."
Rahman told the AP he "was dressed in traditional Indian clothing" and Zaghloul "was dressed in Arab garb, including traditional headgear" when they boarded the 8:40 AM flight to Charlotte.
The plane had left the gate and was headed for the runway when the pilot decided to turn back. Rahman said the pair were "ordered off by a Delta Supervisor." From WBTV:
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This is BS. These men had already gone through security. This pilot should be fired for one, not doing his damn job and two, being a dumb ass bigot.Two Muslim men were removed from a Delta commuter flight operated by Atlantic... more
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A federal justice report on policing in New Orleans since 2009 presents damning evidence of brutality, cop misconduct and systemic abuse of black citizens post-Katrina. The city’s jails are not far behind.A federal justice report on policing in New Orleans since 2009 presents damning... more
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JUAN WILLIAMS: I Get Nervous Walking Past Young Black Men
Dr. Caroline Helmand: "I happen to agree with Schiller that your comments were bigoted. I think that if I were to say that I clutch my purse every time I walk by a black man that might resonate with a lot of Americans. It might be the truth but it's a bigoted statement. I certainly wouldn't have fired you but I do think there was some truth in that video that we don't get to talk about because we are afraid to have actual discourse in this country."
Williams: "I can't believe that you just said that. You think that simply saying what you think is evidence of bigotry that all of a sudden it's as if you were walking by a black man that would mean if you were bigoted if you were somewhat nervous. Let me just tell you, with the amount of black on black crime in America, I get nervous and I'm a black man. So, I mean, wait a second..."
Helmand: "There we go again, Juan. I would find that to be racial profiling that's a bigoted comment."
Williams: "That's a bigoted comment?"
Helmand: "Yes it is. Just like your comment about Muslims."
Williams: "I'm the father of black young men and I'm saying that if you saw a couple guys walking around looking like thugs down the street late at night, you're saying 'Oh, I'm not going to think it through.' Caroline, I think you are way off base."
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/juan-williams-oreilly-nervous-black-men-video-2011-3#ixzz1HJezf4KlJUAN WILLIAMS: I Get Nervous Walking Past Young Black Men
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Passenger profiling needed as well as scanners, airlines chief warns... Security can only be guaranteed by making a risk assessment of people before they are even board an aircraft, said Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the International Air Transport Association.
"Instead of looking for bad things—nail clippers and rogue bottles of shampoo—security systems need to focus on finding bad people," he said.
Mr Bisignani's warning came as airlines face additional security demands following the unsuccessful attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight on Christmas day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a former London University student and known Muslim extremist. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6921458/Passenger-profiling-needed-as-well-as-scanners-airlines-chief-warns.htmlPassenger profiling needed as well as scanners, airlines chief warns...... more
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-Have you ever looked out your peephole and felt scared of a trick-or-treater? You're not alone. Mayor Mark Eckhert of Belleville, Ill., says he's heard a ton of complaints from frightened single mothers and senior citizens who are less than happy about the “6-foot-tall kids” that ring their doorbells on Halloween. His solution: To create an ordinance banning high-school teenagers—that is, anyone over the age of 12—from trick-or-treating.
"When I was a kid my father said to me, 'You're too damn big to be going trick-or-treating. You're done,’" Eckhert told ABC News. "When that doesn't happen, then that's reason for the city governments to intervene."
Intervening, in this case, means putting an age limit on trick-or-treaters, and threatening the over-12 set with a $100 fine for those who ignore the law—though, according to ABC, that fine has rarely, if ever, been actually meted out. And while some residents of Belleville have complained about the ordinance, it seems that many more are relieved. Trick-or-treat age limits have also been popular in townships in South Carolina, Mississippi, Maryland, and Virginia.
However comforting these restrictions may be to some, we can't help but wonder: Are laws the right way to go when we're teaching kids about becoming better adults?
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http://shine.yahoo.com/event/momentsofmotherhood/how-old-is-too-old-for-trick-or-treating-2403664/-Have you ever looked out your peephole and felt scared of a trick-or-treater?... more
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Biking while brown isn't a crime, but that doesn't mean that law enforcement officials don't treat it that way. That's why the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the National Immigration Project, and civil rights attorney Brian Spears are suing two Georgia police officers for racial profiling in the unlawful stop, arrest, and assault of Angel Francisco Castro Torres.
Torres riding his bicycle, minding his own business, when the two police officers noticed that he looked Latino and thus pulled him over to question his immigration status, by their own admission. Although Torres was unarmed and posed no threat to the officers, he was beaten up in the course of the arrest, sustaining severe damage to his nose and eye that required surgery to repair. The officers thought they could get away with the assault by quickly bringing Torres to jail, where a 287(g) agreement with the federal government resulted in him being sent to immigration detention, despite the fact that all criminal charges against him were dropped and he was only picked up in the first place was a violation of his civil rights.Biking while brown isn't a crime, but that doesn't mean that law enforcement... more
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently in an interview that the Obama Administration's Justice Department would sue the state of Arizona over their controversial new immigration legislation. They're expected to bring a suit in the next few days to prevent the law from going into effect July 29.
What do you think? Should the federal government stay out of Arizona's business? Or is this law so abhorrent that it requires federal intervention?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008151-503544.htmlSecretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently in an interview that the Obama... more
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Kan. lawyer is architect of many immigration laws
TOPEKA, Kan. —
When politicians and police across the country want to crack down on illegal immigration, they often reach out to the same man: a little-known Kansas attorney with an Ivy League education who is the architect behind many of the nation's most controversial immigration laws.
Kris Kobach could not attend West Point because of diabetes, but he regards his efforts on immigration as a substitute for military service.
"They can't call him trailer park trash, which is the kind of comment you hear about advocates on our side," said Michael Hethmon, director of the Washington-based Immigration Reform Law Institute.
Kobach helps draft proposed laws and, after they are adopted, trains officers to enforce them. If the laws are challenged, he goes to court to defend them.
His most recent project was advising Arizona officials on a new law that empowers police to question anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. Critics say it violates the Constitution's provisions against unreasonable search and seizure by allowing police to engage in racial profiling.
But Kobach insists an officer stopping a crowded van for a traffic violation has a reasonable suspicion its occupants are illegal immigrants if none of them has an ID, the van is traveling a known smuggling route and the driver is evasive.
"I could not care less whether they come from Mexico or Germany or Japan or China," said Kobach, who speaks with the affable air of a college professor, even when making cutting political remarks. "An alien who also is here with terrorist intentions can carry any passport. This isn't about race or national origin."
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TOPEKA, Kan. —
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“It’s somewhat consoling to know that the man who first noticed the smoking Nissan Pathfinder and sought help is also Muslim, a Senegalese immigrant. … I grew up Muslim in this country, with Muslim friends and non-Muslim friends, and there was very little difference between the two groups. We were all American.”
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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/05/senagalese-muslim-vendor/“It’s somewhat consoling to know that the man who first noticed the... more
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Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- The FBI used a photograph of a Spanish lawmaker as part of a digitally enhanced Osama bin Laden wanted poster, and the U.S. Embassy here has apologized to the angry politician, a spokesman said.
"That was not normal procedure. It was completely unintentional and the FBI is looking into it to prevent it from happening again," U.S. Embassy spokesman Will Ostick told CNN on Saturday.
Ostick said he called the leftist politician, Gaspar Llamazares, to "express regret" on behalf of the embassy after the lawmaker's hair and forehead wrinkles, taken from a photo, were mixed into an FBI image showing the possible appearance of Bin Laden now.
The embassy received various calls from the Spanish government earlier Saturday expressing concern about the use of Llamazares's features in the FBI's depiction, Ostick said.
Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba is meeting the new American ambassador to Madrid, Alan Solomont, on Monday, the ministry announced Sunday.
The ministry did not say what they would be talking about, but the meeting appears to have been scheduled at short notice and is taking place on a U.S. federal holiday when the embassy is not expected to be open.
The digitally enhanced images of Bin Laden appeared Friday on the U.S. government's Rewards for Justice Web site. One depicts how an aging Bin Laden might look now, wearing his usual turban.
But the other one, depicting him without the head covering, showed the hair and facial wrinkles that were taken from a photo of Llamazares. That photo is no longer on the U.S. government's Web site.
Ostick said he told Llamazares that the error occurred when an FBI "technician who put together the digitally enhanced image found an image (of hairline and wrinkles) that suited his purposes, and used it."
Llamazares, an elected member of Spanish parliament from the small, Communist-led United Left coalition, said he wants to know which photo of him the FBI used, and he threatened possible legal action.
Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that the Llamazares photo was from his 2004 election campaign.
Llamazares told reporters that he hoped it was just a case of the "low level and incompetence" of the FBI in the fight against Al Qaeda.
He said he would not travel to the United States, for fear of problems at the border, CNN partner station CNN+ reported.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/17/osama.photo.fbi/Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- The FBI used a photograph of a Spanish lawmaker as part of a... more
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Civil rights belong to everyone. Unless a person does something to forfeit those rights (i.e. commit a crime) they are entitled by their humanity to certain basic human rights. It was written into our founding documents, "all men are created equal." Not all American men, Christian men, or white men… but all men. And while we have struggled, and continue to struggle as a country to fulfill the promise of those words, they are no less true, and no less significant today. All men and women of all walks of life are created equal. Being of a certain race, ethnicity or religious creed is not a crime and therefore not a basis on which to deny a person of their civil rights. Because profiling does exactly that, it is wrong.
Profiling goes against the very idea that is America. We cannot claim to be a beacon of freedom and then steel that freedom away under the guise of protecting it. The whole idea of it would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.
I believe Benjamin Franklin put it best when he said, "Those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both."Civil rights belong to everyone. Unless a person does something to forfeit those... more
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Instead of succumbing to the right-wing drum beat of calls for profiling Muslims, we should adopt a more rational approach to profiling for terrorism based on behavior.Instead of succumbing to the right-wing drum beat of calls for profiling Muslims, we... more
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A retired U.S. General has called for strip searches of all muslim men at airports and “threat-based” profiling, declaring that “in the next 30-100 days,” there is “very high probability a US airliner will come down.”
Retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney made the comments on a Fox News broadcast over the weekend.
“We’ve got to go to more than just the normal process that they’re talking about now,” he said on Saturday.
Full Story and Video of the General...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/ret-u-s-general-promises-an-airliner-will-be-blown-up-within-100-days/A retired U.S. General has called for strip searches of all muslim men at airports and... more
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This crazy terrorist bastard tried to chop up a political cartoonist. Should we worry about whether we are tolerant of how he swings his axe?This crazy terrorist bastard tried to chop up a political cartoonist. Should we worry... more
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After you watch this video, you too, will fear for the future of America. It's simply amazing what passes for logic among the right-wing religious crackpots. In fact, the evidence suggests that religion -- any religion -- causes brain damage. Don't believe me? Watch this video!After you watch this video, you too, will fear for the future of America. It's... more
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Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base, has been described by former colleagues as "psychotic." As more details emerge about Hasan's troubled state, gun safety advocates are launching fresh attacks on a Senate bill they say would make it easier for mentally unstable veterans to buy firearms.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says his "Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act" will protect veterans' gun rights. But the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls it a "dangerous" proposal that could allow "over 100,000 mentally incapacitated or incompetent persons" to buy guns—people who would previously have been barred from doing so by the Veterans Administration (VA).
(click on the link for the full story and for the in-text links)Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base, has been... more
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"A trial of a scanner that produces "naked" images of passengers has begun at Manchester Airport.
Sarah Barrett, head of customer experience at the airport, said most passengers did not like the traditional "pat down" search.
At Manchester Airport's Terminal 2, where the machine has been introduced, passengers will no longer have to remove their coats, shoes and belts as they go through security checks.
Ms Barrett said: "This scanner completely takes away the hassle of needing to undress."
Ms Barrett said the black-and-white image would only be seen by one officer in a remote location before it was deleted.
"The images are not erotic or pornographic and they cannot be stored or captured in any way," she said.
Passengers could refuse to be scanned, she added."
Coming to an airport, school, court, amusement park, concert and sports venue near you. Makes you long for the days of profiling."A trial of a scanner that produces "naked" images of passengers has... more
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