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 Online, Hit & Run Gothamist Business Insider, The 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.
I have never seen this site before. The guy who is running it must be a total nut !
Coming from a liberal retard like you. I’ll take that as a compliment.
you taking this as a compliment proves that you are RETARDED.
….and you coming to here to tell me that proves that you are not far behind! Ya liberal twit! 😛
BTW, you cannot even spell compliment correctly……..
BTW your momma was good in bed last night! See? I can be an asshole too! Dickhead.
I can only imagine what your upbringing was like. You must have been terribly abused in so many different ways. You are still the hurt, frightened, angry little boy from so long ago, and you are still there because you obviously never received the help you so desperately needed. And so now you take it out on everyone else, as if somehow that will make the pain go away. Yet you just get more angry. Pity.
Patrick,
Real liberty, the type the US Constitution is supposed to protect, is for all. Everyone. No exceptions.
If you were defending liberty, like your byline says, you’d be supporting other people when their liberties aren’t being respected.
Saying you’re defending liberty, and actually defending liberty, are two different things. You’re only doing the saying part, while mocking others who’s liberties need defending. It’s a bit like free speech. I may not like what you wrote above, but you’ve got the right to say it and I will defend your right to say it. Similarly I might not like you, but if you got hauled off a plane for absolutely no good reason, were held for several hours, and strip searched I’d say your right to liberty had been broken.
Anyway, given your responses to other comments I don’t expect I’ll change you mind on this.
Real Liberty does not give anyone a free pass based on skin color either. But she sure wanted one. So do most blacks in this Country.
That could very well be. But then again, I don’t go on an airplane and intentionally do things to arise suspicion, get taken off that plane and then whine about it on my blog either. Just sayin’
No one is saying that what happened that day was not horrific, but as a country we have lost more then just the twin towers we have lost our freedom. If we allow the government to start profiling people and treating them like they did these 3 people what is to say that they wont be doing this to everyone. America has taken a beating and everyone that lives here also. I am truly sorry that those people has to go thru what they did. I feel that it was unjustified and wrong. I truly understand we have to respond to all complaints but the way we handle those complaints make us human. If we lose that then what are we fighting for anymore.
Fair point Donna. My issue with her complaining really was not my gripe. It was her using the racial stereotypes was what got my blood to boiling.
However, having said that. If we do not watch out, we could have another attack. Like the Undie bomber that struck here on Christmas? Plus also, it was 9/11 and there was another threat. So, I hate the woman was taken off and plane and all. But, you think she would have been a bit more understanding about it. Further, I don’t believe she was targeted; I believe someone did something to cause a suspicion. Like stayed in the Bathroom too long?
Anyhow, there’s my point.
I approved these comments, because I want everyone to know just how people really feel about those who died on 9/11.
“Defending Liberty Since 2006” But only the liberties of us white people, right?
Her story is horrific and who knows how many people it has happened to since 9/11. She wasn’t and hasn’t done anything wrong other than have the “misfortune” of being of Arab ancestry. The vast majority of the billion and a half Muslims in the world are not violent or radical. No matter which group of people you target, there will always be someone who has done something evil. It does not represent the group and shouldn’t be used to judge them all. Her blog is simply showing her thoughts and confusion in the middle of being detained by white people because of the colour of her skin. I would notice it too if I were in her situation.
I personally don’t support the suppression of civil liberties that have been fought so hard for, just to suit prejudice. But that’s my opinion and it obviously differs from yours.
Commenter… You are welcomed to comment here and you are more than welcomed to express your opinion.
But…
Don’t use my e-mail address, dude, please. You don’t even have to use a real address, me@me.com works fine.
Thanks,
-Pat
Any particular reason why since you’re the one who sees it? (I’m just curious, I’ve since used a fake one)
— Dudette
Yes Dudette,
using my e-mail address, which I have no idea, how you know it — throws a avatar on wordpress, that I have registered. I don’t want people thinking it is me, when it is not.
After writing this, I believe WordPress notifies everyone, using my e-mail address. I think!
Anyhow, that’s why. 😀
-Pat
I think one of the main problems I and others seem to have with your post is the fact that you are displaying more anger and criticism toward the woman who was detained, essentially over some slightly mean thoughts she had going through her head. She’s only human, and you’re getting mad because she shows the slightest bit of humanity by reacting negatively to the people who were violating her rights, even though SHE DID NOTHING WRONG.
And even though you fault her for referring to her tormentors as “fat” and “rednecks,” it’s perfectly okay for you to call her a “Jewish/Arab half breed bitch.”
Has it ever occurred to you that just because you’re a maladjusted, fat, disgusting, misogynist, redneck, maybe this isn’t about you?
Mr. Not a Redneck,
You are one more MOBY or troll act away from the idiot filter.
That is all.
-Pat
Further more, The people who died in the trade centers, Pentagon and on flight 93 did nothing either, but terrorists killed them.
I’m a just saying.
If you cannot figure that out, then we have nothing to discuss my friend.
Jeesh I had no clue that a Battalion Chief had spoken over a broken PA system asking “Please don’t jump, we’re coming up for you.”
Yep, he sure did.
Why I get a little pissed off, when I see people whining, because we’re trying to protect our Republic from another attack.