TSA GOON SQUAD STRIKES AGAIN

Here is yet one more account of the TSA going out of control in the name of "national security."  Now I am a believer in maintaining national security, and when it comes to our enemies, I am not too particular about how we do it.  They certainly are not particular about how the attack us.  But this is another one of those absurd instances showing a totally out of control government agency.  No one will be able to convince me this is an "isolated incident."  There are too many documented, and I have posted here about several of them.  From what I have seen, it seems young American children and elderly Americans are being targeted.  Remember that such tactics have prevented no terrorist attack attempts whatsoever.

My question is why are there absolutely no accounts of any Muslims ever being patted down or detained like this?  If there are any such incidents, please post a link in my comment section.  I would like to see it.

Dying Woman Undergoes Additional TSA Security Screening, Says Family

Published June 26, 2011

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The Weber Family

Lena Reppert and her daughter Jean Weber celebrate St. Patrick's Day in New Orleans in 2010. TSA agents stopped the elderly woman and made her remove her Depends before she boarded a flight, according to her daughter

An elderly woman in the late-stages of leukemia was forced to undergo 45 minutes of additional screenings last Saturday when she tried to board a flight out of Northwest Florida Regional Airport, her daughter told FoxNews.com

Lena Reppert, 95, was to say her final goodbyes to her daughter before she made what would most likely be her last flight to her native Michigan. After eight years of battling leukemia, doctors say she doesn’t have much time to live.

“She said she wanted to be closer to her grave,” Jean Weber, her daughter, told FoxNews.com. “I knew it would probably be the last time I ever see her.”

But when Reppert made it to the check-in line, Transportation Security Association agents singled her out because she was in a wheelchair. Wheelchairs require other security measures to be employed since they don’t go through metal detectors.

“So they brought my mom to the side, and two agents just started patting her,” Reppert said. “Eventually they found something that appeared to be hard and they said could be a concealed weapon.”

She said two female agents wheeled her mom into a private room where they performed a more thorough inspection, and found that Reppert was wearing a Depend adult diaper.

“It was hard because the underwear was bunched up,” Weber said, adding that she was not in the room as her mother was patted.

After 45 minutes, the mother and daughter were given two options: either don't fly, or lose the Depend. The women chose the latter.

“I ran with her to the bathroom and stripped her down,” Weber recalled. “I got back to the line and just started bawling.”

Weber said the emotional toll was too much. From perhaps seeing her mother for what could be the last time, to having to see her mother go through all the security measures, “I just cried and said, ‘Please can you let her through, she’s just so sick,” she said.

The TSA said in a statement to Fox News that at "no instance" would an officer ask a passenger to remove an adult diaper. The TSA would not disclose further information about this particular passenger, but said all protocols were followed.

“While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," the statement read. "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure.”

Reppert eventually made her flight by two minutes, her daughter said, but the departure was bitter sweet.

“It was tough to say goodbye after all of that,” Weber said. “But she’s at peace, and she’s a good Christian woman. They’ll be waiting for her up there in Heaven.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/26/dying-woman-undergoes-additional-tsa-security-screening-says-family/#ixzz1QUF1W55a

You may read a few additional details by clicking HERE for an article posted by the Northwest Florida Daily News.

GOVERNMENT GONE ABSOLUTELY WILD(ER)

This was posted by Sherrie, a fellow blogger on December 1, 2010.  Sherrie writes SHERRIE QUESTIONING ALL, and was the subject of a very bizarre, but not surprising, investigation by Child Protective Services.

Sherrie got a call from CPS stating they had received a complaint possible child abuse.  This alone would rattle anyone.  But it goes downhill from here.  CPS interviewed her daughter at school and asked questions about whether or not her mother had solar panels, EXACTLY where they went camping and hiking, and whether or not they had, get this, STORED FOOD.  Sherrie's daughter was also asked if her mother had any guns, spoke of the end of the world, if the house had been remodeled, and whether or not they had a safe room such as a bomb shelter.  Sherrie also caught the CPS investigator in a lie.  The investigator had told her that she did not know Sherrie's daughter's father did not live with them, but the truth was her daughter had told her that at the school interview.  Sherrie wisely called her sister and some neighbors and asked them to be witnesses during the CPS interview.  Sherrie's sister also videotaped the interview.  Here are the three that clips Sherrie posted.

Now, read Sherrie's account of the entire series of events by clicking HERE.  It's far too lengthy to repost here, but it is vitally important that you read her entire account.

This happened in November, and it was not in another country.  It was right her in America.

The line of questioning here was in perfect alignment with the Department of Homeland Security's REPORT issued on April 7, 2009 classifying anyone who opposed the Obama administration's policies, was a veteran, held Christian beliefs especially those who believe in end-time Bible prophecies, believe in the Constitutional sovereignty of States, stockpiles food and/or weapons as right-wing extremists.  Read the report for yourself, and it will be very obvious that Sherrie has been so classified somewhere along the line.  

This type of information gathering is very convenient for government.  The person being investigated has extremely limited rights and no right to the identity of the complainant.  Very convenient indeed.

I'm not stopping here.  It gets even better as if this wasn't more than enough.  One of her blog readers was investigated by CPS for . . . . feeding his children organic food, drinks non-flouridated water, and had a bug-out bag.  The police were even there during the investigation. This one happened around the end of September 2010.  Click HERE for the story.  I know it will take a while, but please read this one too. It is vital you see what is going on.  The specific allegations here are quite ridiculous.

In the case of Sherrie's reader, this shows the importance of having the facts to back up your position.  It's ludicrous that we have to stand ready for these attacks, but in this form, they come unannounced.  You better be prepared.

There is also something else to keep in mind.  In those instances where you must have dealings with any government agency, be it local, state, or Federal, and regardless of the type of agency, do not give any more information about you, your family, or your activities than you absolutely must in order to conduct the business at hand.  Agencies share information with each other, upon request, and they don't need your permission to do it.  Even in such cases where they do need your permission, any information about you can be shared without your knowledge making it nearly impossible to uncover violations of privacy laws.

YOU'RE UNDER ARREST - POSSESSION OF A HAPPY MEAL!

Sound funny? Sound ridiculous?  As ridiculous as it sounds, and would not be taken seriously by anyone in their right mind, it's very close to reality . . . in San Francisco that is.

The Board of Supervisors (still think that is an interesting title for a commissioner - maybe the political structure just wanted to convey the idea that we have to be "supervised" rather than actually working for the people) voted earlier this month that limited toy giveaways in meals high in calories, sodium and fat, and also required servings of fruits and vegetables with each meal.  That's right, eight of the eleven "supervisors" have the audacity to tell you that they can parent and take care of your children better than you.  Politicians telling you what you can and cannot feed your child.  (SOURCE)  

Imagine the wasted food.  The required vegetables and fruits with the meal would be mostly thrown in the trash.  When a kid goes to McDonald's, fruits and vegetables are the last thing they want.  If a parent wants fruits and vegetables with their child's meal, they won't be going to McDonald's or any similar fast food restaurants.  

But that's not the point.  The point is more and more control of people's private lives, this time deciding for parents what to feed their children.  This is another example of government gone crazy and just another encroachment into our private lives.  There is always another agenda which is little by little increasing government intrusion into daily living.  Just wonder what's next on the San Francisco's "supervisors' " list?


The mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, did the right thing.  Mayor Newsom vetoed the ordinance on November 12th (SOURCE).  Mayor Newsom said in a statement, "Parents, not politicians, should decide what their children eat, especially when it comes to spending their own money.  Despite its good intentions, I cannot support this unwise and unprecedented governmental intrusion into parental responsibilities and private choices." (SOURCE)


However, the SAN FRANCISCO POLITBURO overrode Mayor Newsom's veto this past Tuesday, so McDonald's has a little over a year to comply with this government-gone-crazy overstepping its purpose and becoming the surrogate parents of San Francisco's children.  Totally absurd.  The citizens of San Francisco should start petitions to have a recall election for the "Happy Meal 8," starting with the sponsor of the legislation, ERIC MAR.

I might send Mr. Mar a picture of me . . . eating a Big Mac and fries.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39975952/ns/business-consumer_news/?gt1=43001