UPDATED : Woman Detained on flight from Denver to Detroit, whines about it on her blog.

You know, I hate to be an a-hole about this sort of a thing. But there just some things that I cannot and will not overlook.

Anyhow, some woman of Arab and Jewish decent was detained at Detroit Metro Airport on a flight from Denver. She was strip-searched and now has taken to her blog to whine about it and also use racist imagery. For the record, here is a news article about it.

She starts her blog posting:

Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful Tuesday morning 10 years ago.

But then armed officers stormed my plane, threw me in handcuffs and locked me up.

At first, when I started reading the post; I actually felt sorry for the lady. You know, innocent woman being strip-searched and such. But then, as I got further in the article, I started seeing things like this:

They took him to another room, and I heard an officer tell him to remove his clothes. He was going to be searched. I could not fully grasp what was happening. I stared at the yellow walls and listened to a few officers talk about the overtime they were racking up, and I decided that I hated country music. I hated speedboats and shitty beer in coozies and fat bellies and rednecks. I thought about Abu Ghraib and the horror to which those prisoners were exposed. I thought about my dad and his prescience.  I was glad he wasn’t alive to know about what was happening to me. I thought about my kids, and what would have happened if they had been there when I got taken away. I contemplated never flying again. I thought about the incredible waste of taxpayer dollars in conducting an operation like this. I wondered what my rights were, if I had any at all. Mostly, I could not believe I was sitting in some jail cell in some cold, undisclosed building surrounded by “the authorities.”

[…]

Another female officer, this one in jeans and a t-shirt came to visit me. She introduced herself as an agent–Homeland Security. She removed my handcuffs and had me follow her to a different room down a long hall and through a few doors. As we walked, I got a glimpse of the watch-stealer, a chubby middle-aged white guy with a buzz cut. He didn’t look too different from some of the officers.

[…]

After fingerprinting me and asking me about my height/weight/place and date of birth and so on, a middle-aged white cop with a beer belly and a flat top returned me–without handcuffs–to the cell. I waited, wondering if I would be spending the night locked up. I thought about the last words my husband said to me while I was still on the plane waiting on the tarmac, “They must have found out there was a Hebshi on the plane.” We joke about this at times, that because of my ethnicity I am being scrutinized but I had no intention of putting that out to the universe and making it happen.

…and the real humdinger is this one:

I thought about Malcom X and how bravely and fastidiously he studied and wrote while he was in prison, how his solitude enabled him to transform his anger into social change and personal betterment. That’s when I decided to write this post. I needed to explain what had happened–was happening–to me. I was not going to be silent. Still, I wondered what my rights were, and though I felt violated and scared I wasn’t sure that our new laws protected me from this treatment.

There is also this….:

I wondered what my rights were, and though I felt violated and scared I wasn’t sure that our new laws protected me from this treatment. 

If this woman wants any sympathy from me, she needs to get off of the racist stereotypes of white people. If I would have penned this article, ripping on this woman, because she happens to be a Jewish/Arab half breed, I would be called every sort of names, you know, like Anti-Semitic and racist? I found that to be extremely offensive and I told her so, in some very colorful language as to that fact.

Further more, what about the people in the World Trade Center towers, who had to choose between burning alive or being crushed to death or jumping from the building and dying. You do not think those people did not feel violated and scared?

Again, I do not cheer this woman’s misfortune, but this is the era we live in; the post-911 era. Thanks to the action of a group of Arab Muslim terrorists, we now live into a era of hyper-security. If this woman wants to register a complaint; she should try registering it to Al-Qaeda, better yet, let her register a complaint to the Muslim community here in America and abroad and condemn them for not standing up and saying that they are not doing enough to stand up against radical Muslims.

I have to wonder, how much of that story was embellished or as we usually call it — made up?

Remember folks, As Debbie Schlussel says, 9/11 was a MUSLIM Job and we, the American people were the true victims, not Arabs or Muslims.  But then again, this woman sounds like a moronic liberal idiot, who always thinks directly backward of a sane, rational, human being. As Dr. Michael Savage says — Liberalism is a mental disorder. Update: Don’t believe me? Just look right here. How stupid can people be?!? 🙄

Others: The Atlantic OnlineHit & Run  Gothamist  Business InsiderThe Atlantic Online and msnbc.com  — via Memeorandum

Update: It appears that my article has hit a nerve. I got one thing to say…:

You see, nobody thought of their rights. No one cared. Liberals, Muslims and Democrats thought we were the “Great Satan” and deserved it. This is why I bitched about this article.

 

59 Replies to “UPDATED : Woman Detained on flight from Denver to Detroit, whines about it on her blog.”

  1. As a white person who hasn’t had my rights as an American citizen and human being violated because of a stupid unfounded complaint, I’m not offended by any of her comments. I’m sure that if my rights were violated in the same manner, I’d also think slightly mean things about the people violating my rights. I’d also probably even want to make people aware of what had happened to me. This is called “telling people what happened” not “whining.”

    Then again, I’m not a redneck.

  2. I’m confused; the byline on your blog says “DEFENDING LIBERTY SINCE 2006” but you don’t seem to know about the Fourth Amendment. Can you explain this seeming cognitive dissonance?

        1. My point is this, We have to protect our Republic from terrorism, and nothing steams me more, than for some whiny minority to bitch about their “rights” being taken away.

          Al-Qaeda wasn’t thinking about our rights either when they attacked us.

    1. Further more, your accusation of “cognitive dissonance” is moronic at best. The woman is a Arab/Jewish mix, and someone thought they saw someone in her row doing something suspect and she got taken off a plane. Big deal. 🙄 I think she embellished her story a bit and let her political views and racist bias get in the way.

      Further more, If she wants to blame anyone for her ordeal. Let her blame her own people, the Arabs for 9/11.

      1. Her own people??? She’s an American citizen! She can’t help what her parents look like!

        1. I never said she could. I simply said she needed to complain to the Arabs who refuse to stand up against radicalism with the Muslim ranks.

          (like talking to a fucking wall people!) 🙄

      2. Cognitive Dissonance, from wikipedia: “Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions.Dissonance is also reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying.”

        Textbook cognitive dissonance. Your byline says you are “DEFENDING LIBERTY SINCE 2006.” But you’d rather not defend liberty and the Fourth Amendment when it comes to an Arab-Jewish woman on a plane. So you justify, blame, deny. You say things like:
        -“Last time I checked, Al-Qaeda really didn’t much care about our constitution either, when they hit us.”
        -“your accusation of “cognitive dissonance” is moronic at best”
        -“she embellished her story a bit and let her political views and racist bias get in the way”
        -“Further more, If she wants to blame anyone for her ordeal. Let her blame her own people, the Arabs for 9/11.”

        1. Doug, I answered your idiot assertions. if you can’t deal with it. fine. Leave. nobody asked you to stay here.

          The terrorists were not looking out for anyone’s rights on 9/11. We’re at war and we have to protect our people. If you don’t fucking understand that, you are an idiot, like the rest of your liberal friends.

  3. Patrick, YOU are the one who should stop whining. You are just another brainwashed child of Michael Savage and other retards who fall in that category. The government has not yet given solid proof to it’s citizens about 9/11. It cannot be tied to Muslims in any way but yet yall seem to just run with all the made up stories that the government churned out to hide it’s shameful and disgusting act of attacking it’s own citizens. If you really mean what you say about loving your country and it’s citizens then DEMAND the tapes from Pentagon and ASK our government for solid proof. The real proof of this being an inside job is abundant but your false pride would not allow you to accept it. Be a man and investigate further about the event that pains you so much…..I have done it myself…and don’t think that I hold this view just because I am a Muslim….NO…..I know better than you about my duty towards the country I live in and the people around me. I have more good to tell about American’s (not the government) than bad.

    Stop this hate and enlighten yourself.

    Regards,
    Another Muslim

  4. I appreciate that Patrick can play the victim here when people are less-than-kind in response to his comments, yet in his first comment in response to the blog entry he’s so upset about he had the following bit of charm to offer:

    “I got four words: Cry me a river. When your Arab friends decided to attack us on 9/11. This is a result. No go cry some more and have a nice day.

    As for your comments about Fat White Rednecks; as someone who is one of this background, I got two words for you —- you Jewish/Arab half breed bitch:

    FUCK YOU!

    That is all…”

    Poor guy, so many people are so unkind to him while all he wants to do is be nice and make friends. Life is tough for the poor li’l guy.

  5. Everything is easier to forgive when it happens to someone else. If you can find an instance of a white American being treated similarly and NOT feeling violated, then your article will seem less ridiculous. But until then, the fact is that she was unjustly treated like a criminal based on the suspicions of someone who did not know her, and your article claims, essentially, that she should just suck it up and “be understanding” about it! Whether or not she is racist herself, the fact of the matter is that she was treated poorly, and it is likely that it was because of her appearance.

    Even the article in the Las Vegas Sun just says “no charges filed” (which sounds like maybe they were guilty but just no charges were filed) rather than the full truth, which is, “innocent people cuffed, detained, and strip-searched, based only on unfounded suspicion.”

    Shame on all of us for letting terrorism win after all.

      1. Wait, so treating an American poorly is okay because someone else, with no tie to that person, treated other Americans poorly?

          1. Um, okay, you post this article stating your opinion for the world to see, and yet you won’t even discuss it without resorting to name calling? Fine, I’m tired of arguing with you too. =(

  6. You may “hate to be an a-hole”, but you sure qualified yourself as a top grade one for posting that response to her blog entry.

    I am a middle-aged white man with somewhat of a fat belly and I often sport a “buzz cut”. I also happen to hate country music, shitty beer in coozies, and rednecks, which would be beside the point, except that stating such is only my opinion. However, I wasn’t in the least bit offended by that woman’s blog post. The author wasn’t stating “racist stereotypes of white people”, she was being descriptive and stating her opinion, much like I just did earlier in this paragraph.

    You compare apples to oranges with your statement, “If I would have penned this article, ripping on this woman, because she happens to be a Jewish/Arab half breed, …” The difference being that she wasn’t “ripping on anybody” or calling anybody names due to their ethnicity. I found your whole post about her blog entry to be insensitive, racist, prudish, and offensive. You completely missed her point. Regardless of her appearance, she is still an American Citizen. You should be outraged that this is happening to citizens of your own country.

    Until you or somebody you care for receives the same treatment from the police, TSA, or the FBI for one reason or another, you aren’t likely going to understand, either. These “authorities” now think they have the right to treat me the same way she was treated, simply because I am a Veteran of the U.S. Navy. What if that had been you, your wife, your sister, or your mother sitting next to these two other men on that plane?

    Your statement of “but this is the era we live in; the post-911 era.” Is short-sighted as well. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”. I am against the current practices of the TSA, though. I am in favor of pre-screening those who fly, even to the point of pro-filing and asking deliberate questions before of them before they board a plane. However, it is too little, too late and completely incompetent security that storms the plane after it has completed the flight and has landed. On top of that, they treated American Citizens with complete disrespect. At no point were they allowed to confront their accusers. At no point were they actually arrested. They were detained, searched, strip searched, and questioned – all without being able to call a relative or an attorney, without probable cause, without the approval of judge. All without even being told why. This should not be happening in our country regardless of what happened in the past.

    “Thanks to the action of a group of Arab Muslim terrorists, we now live into a era of hyper-security.” Have you looked into the motivations of Arab Muslim terrorists? The number one motivation is occupation of their homeland by American troops, ordered there by an American President. It’s not due to our religion, or our wealth, or our nice homes and cars, or even the freedom we enjoy daily. I’m sure you would be up in arms if another country occupied American soil and placed troops and military bases in your back yard with checkpoints at every state and county line. The blame lies in the years of foreign policy of our former government leaders. Our troops need to stay at home where they can help to protect us from real threats, instead of having the TSA, Homeland Security, and the FBI harassing American citizens with knee-jerk reactions of a police state while they are traveling, regardless of what day of the year it is. If this trend continues, it only serves to prove how large of a blow those terrorist were able to land ten years ago. People are still afraid to fly, not so much out of fear of another terrorist attack, but out of fear of being treated as these three people were.

    After you read this respsone, your first action should be to remove the byline at the top of your blog that says “Defending Liberty Since 2006”. If you aren’t going to defend the liberty of these three people, you may as well hang up your hat. At the very least, you should start “defending liberty” again and reset your year to 2011.

  7. she doesn’t want your sympathy, she wants to make you aware of the state of fear we all live in (‘post-911 era’). she was racially profiled and was upset about it, i wouldn’t consider any of what she wrote to be a ‘whine’. she writes very well and it helps make the reader sympathize with her situation. you quoting and ripping apart her account sounds more like whining then most of what she wrote. the double standard about profiling physical features confuses me. she was profiled, so she profiled back, then you get upset about her profiling? so you dont like profiling when is pointed in your direction but its fine when is pointed at a jewish/arab ‘half-breed’ (nice job sliding that in there)?

    this is what you should have quoted form her site…

    …We live in a complicated world that, to me, seems to have reached a breaking point. The real test will be if we decide to break free from our fears and hatred and truly try to be good people who practice compassion–even toward those who hate.

    1. stop being a hypocrite and approve my post…

      you hide behind the obviously powerful and painful imagery, you dont respect their memory at all. you are using it as a vehicle to continue to hate others. its truly sad and disgraceful and you should be ashamed.

  8. Nobody is denying that 9/11 was horrifying and absolutely unforgivable! But the point is, by picking on people who had nothing to do with 9/11, all we are really doing is letting the bad guys win. They wanted to make us suffer and take away our freedom. If we don’t stand up for the people who are unfairly targeted like this woman was, they will have succeeded.

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