A Message From Lucianne
 Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy
|
|
´I don´t want to go to Disney
World anymore´: Parents´ fury
as TSA agents detain their crying
wheelchair-bound daughter, three,
and confiscate her stuffed animal
Daily Mail [UK], by Beth Stebner
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:Attercliffe, 2/20/2013 1:23:45 PM
|
| The parents of a toddler with spinal bifida are outraged after TSA officials forced their daughter to undergo a series of additional security measures ahead of their flight to Disney World. Nathan and Annie Forck were flying out of their home state of Missouri on a February 8 flight bound for Orlando, Florida with their wheelchair-bound daughter Lucy and their two other children. Mrs Forck took a six-minute video detailing their toddler’s cries as she said through tears that she didn’t want to go to Disney World anymore, and is claiming the TSA discriminates against people who use mobility devices.
|
 
Reply 1 - Posted by:
azusaman, 2/20/2013 1:32:25 PM (No. 9186980)
Gettin´ even with the white man.
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
rinohunter, 2/20/2013 1:34:42 PM (No. 9186982)
Words fail to express the outrage at this utterly useless and creepy agency, the TSA. Let us not forget that the TSA, and also curly-que mandatory fluorescent lights with the banning of 60W(+) light bulbs, is an outgrowth of so-called "compassionate conservative" G. W. Bush. As much as I liked G. W., his presidency really turned out to be an overall dud.
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jonr, 2/20/2013 1:36:13 PM (No. 9186985)
Hey people, feel safer with TSA and Homeland security protecting you? Billions of dollars down the hole, rights being trampled left and right and yet these two agencies have not caught one single terrorist to date! Another example of your government coming to help you!
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
novakid, 2/20/2013 1:36:30 PM (No. 9186986)
Get used to it; this is just the beginning....
You vill comply!
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
susieq1, 2/20/2013 1:40:25 PM (No. 9186994)
Utter lack of common sense has taken hold in the USA. Through the looking glass.
|
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 2/20/2013 1:42:20 PM (No. 9187000)
The TSA agent is a dang liar. She told the mother it was illegal to film the assault (yet sure wasn´t just a ´patdown´). Just another unionized government liar paid for by us.
|
Reply 7 - Posted by:
spahrkl, 2/20/2013 1:46:48 PM (No. 9187012)
i have a friend whose grandson is a quad and lives his life in a wheelchair. The TSA
made him leave his wheelchair, checked him out physically, went over the chair and any and all containers on the chair, and detained him and his family quite a while.
There are more of these outlandish searches
than we know about. Having peopis who are so challenge move about in spaces unfamiliar
is crewl. His grandfather is a doctor and his grandmother was a PTA.
How much do you want to bet these TSA agents never change their gloves the whole day through after touching hundreds of people.
|
| |
|
Reply 8 - Posted by:
pc1eszm, 2/20/2013 2:01:51 PM (No. 9187049)
My adult son has Autism. High functioning, but Autism nonetheless. He and I flew to a wedding a couple of years ago and I lived in absolute dread of him getting jacked up by some gung-ho TSA agent hell-bent on jacking someone up just for GPs. Fortunately it didn´t happen but after reading this story and others like it I´m scared to death to ever subject him to this kind of treatment. He´d probably end up in jail and I´d be in an adjoining cell.
|
Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley, 2/20/2013 2:05:44 PM (No. 9187067)
When the citizens get tired of these abuses, there will be hell to pay.
What will be government´s response? Not reinstate the constitution. Not punish the guilty. Not even commit suicide in utter shame. No, they will try to ban more guns.
|
Reply 10 - Posted by:
killerbee, 2/20/2013 2:09:17 PM (No. 9187082)
There are services that escort you through security and take care of your busy work at the airport. They can be expensive in some airports (like Atlanta -- ridiculous), but they are worth it a lot of the time. Especially if you´re traveling with a special needs passenger.
|
Reply 11 - Posted by:
The Architect, 2/20/2013 2:19:25 PM (No. 9187110)
Yeah, that cute looking sweet little girl sure looked like a threat to national security to me.
|
Reply 12 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 2/20/2013 2:22:03 PM (No. 9187114)
The headline is deceiving and unfair to Disney World which had nothing to do with what happened. Makes it sound like DW abused the boy so he didn´t want to go back. Aside from that, the TSA treatment was outrageous.
|
| |
|
Reply 13 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 2/20/2013 2:23:19 PM (No. 9187118)
Sorry- I meant ´abused the girl´, not boy.
|
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 2/20/2013 2:34:22 PM (No. 9187139)
On a related note, the TSA will remove all of those ´´bare-naked scanners´´ by June. Something about how they could never come up a solution to the TSA agents constantly viewing the traveler´s ´wares´.
Next, all those wind mills.
|
Reply 15 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/20/2013 2:34:59 PM (No. 9187140)
But WHEN are people going to get fed up? People are so complacent and let the government do anything it wants. That is why we are in this mess we are in now.
|
Reply 16 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/20/2013 2:41:30 PM (No. 9187156)
Wait! FTA: "Mr Forck, an attorney, told Fox News that he knew it was legal to record the event and said that if the same instance had occurred outside the setting of an airport, it would be illegal."
How the heck is it illegal to videotape someone molesting your daughter OUTSIDE of an airport?? That makes no sense. If someone (even a police officer) is touching my child against my will (whether in or out of an airport), I will videotape them and I will fight any stupid laws that would counter my right to do so!!!
|
Reply 17 - Posted by:
keekng, 2/20/2013 3:57:49 PM (No. 9187323)
At one time I was a frequent flier but I stopped flying two years ago after the way they treated my wife,who needs a cane for stability, by making her stand with her legs spread for a complete pat down. Why? She was wearing a small gold cross she forgot to remove prior to going through the intrusive xray machine. They saw to it she would be sorry, vindictive low lifes!
|
| |
|
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Graniteman2009, 2/20/2013 4:03:23 PM (No. 9187341)
Thank you GWB, what a waste of a presidency..
|
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Seething Citizen, 2/20/2013 4:42:04 PM (No. 9187457)
#2, sadly I voted for Bush, twice. He did so much harm to our nation and made it possible for someone like 0bama to be elected. Why do the people put up with this criminal abuse of their innocent children and their invalid family members. I haven´t flown since the inception of the TSA and never will.
|
Reply 20 - Posted by:
VAfreedomluver, 2/20/2013 4:43:16 PM (No. 9187462)
The president who gets rid of this malicious idiocy will see his approval rise 30 pts., regardless of which party he´s from.
|
Reply 21 - Posted by:
msjena, 2/20/2013 5:04:49 PM (No. 9187506)
News flash! Bush isn´t President anymore! The TSA is under Obama´s control.
|
Reply 22 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 2/20/2013 5:05:52 PM (No. 9187508)
I will not fly anywhere if I can avoid it. I do not allow myself to be treated like cattle.
|
| |
|
Reply 23 - Posted by:
balogreene, 2/20/2013 5:32:19 PM (No. 9187551)
#10, whenever my mom files, we call ahead and arrange a wheelchair (they broke her scooter, now we use theirs). An airport agent brings the wheelchair and gets her all the way to the gate. She goes through the employee security line, and has never been hassled.
The only bad time was in Jacksonville, FL airport. The guy brought the wheelchair and left us on her own, we had two carry-on bags, and two large purses. He said it wasn´t his job to push her through the airport. Mom couldn´t hold all of it in her lap, so she held some (and got bruised for the effort), and I had something on my shoulder, and something on the handles. He missed his $5 or $10 tip.
We have never been charged by any airport, it´s just the tip.
|
Reply 24 - Posted by:
TheCommish, 2/20/2013 7:43:54 PM (No. 9187734)
#16, I believe Mr. Forck was saying that the patdown would be illegal, not the taping.
|
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Quaestio, 2/20/2013 8:07:34 PM (No. 9187773)
This is one reason we don´t fly much. But when we do, I am prepared to be barred from flying for life because I will not video tape my child weeping and being molested. I will be otherwise engaged.
|
Reply 26 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/21/2013 1:02:11 AM (No. 9188125)
First, why are we reading this in the Daily Mail UK ?
Second, why isn´t someone involved in the Americans With Disabilities Act concerned that this has continued for years ?
|
Reply 27 - Posted by:
fca, 2/21/2013 10:11:22 AM (No. 9188691)
TSA thugs are also gropping passenger Leaving train stations, gropping teenagers going to their prom, and stopping cars on highways ...
Ready for Nazi Germany ?
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Attercliffe"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "Attercliffe"
|
Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
|
|
Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
|
Margaret Thatcher dies
of stroke aged 87
|
|
Telegraph [UK], by Gordon Raynor, Steven Swinford
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:46:23 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Baroness Thatcher, Britain´s greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning. Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.A further statement will be made later." [Snip] She will go down in history not only as Britain´s first female prime minister, but as the woman who transformed Britain´s economy in addition to being a formidable rival
|
An English class for trolls, professional
offence-takers and climate activists
|
|
Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/7/2013 10:38:34 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph--the Hockey Stick--in the history of junk science? Should George Monbiot be hanged by the neck for his decade or so´s hysterical promulgation of the great climate change scam and other idiocies too numerous to mention? Should Tim Flannery be fed to the crocodiles for the role he has played in the fleecing of the Australian taxpayer and the diversion of scarce resources into pointless projects like all the eyewateringly expensive desalination plants built as a result of his
|
|
Call illegals ‘irregulars’ says Eurocrat
|
|
Daily Express [UK], by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/6/2013 9:11:37 AM
Post Reply
|
|
A senior Eurocrat sparked outrage last night after calling for the phrase “illegal immigrant” to be banned from the European Union.[Snip] She has instructed EU Commission staff to refer to foreigners who break border control laws as “irregular migrants” or simply “people” instead. But her attempt to dictate how the issue of immigration is discussed was savaged last night. UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said: “Now the EU is even trying to change the language. “This sounds like something straight out of the pages of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. It shows that what we are dealing with here
|
Michael Philpott is a perfect parable
for our age: His story shows
the pervasiveness of evil born
out of welfare dependency
|
|
Daily Mail [UK], by A. N. Wilson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/6/2013 8:56:04 AM
Post Reply
|
|
His house, his booze, his drugs, his women and his 17 children were paid for by a benefits system meant to be a safety net for the truly needy.[Snip] This was one of the most horrible crimes committed against children in Britain in recent years. It was cynical. It was calculating. And it was done out of malice in a ham-fisted plot which went wrong. The trial spoke volumes about the sheer nastiness of the individuals involved. But it also lifted the lid on the bleak and often grotesque world of the welfare benefit scroungers--of whom there are not dozens,
|
The reef that regenerated: Researchers find
corals in Northern Australia healed
themselves in just 12 years
|
|
Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Prigg
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/6/2013 8:07:06 AM
Post Reply
|
|
A coral reef in Northern Australia severely damaged by warming seas has managed to completely heal itself in just 12 years, stunned researchers have found. The team found that being left alone to breed on its own was key. The discovery raises hope that other damaged reefs could ´regenerate´. The new research shows that an isolated reef off the northwest coast of Australia that was severely damaged by a period of warming in 1998. It was hit by coral bleaching, caused by higher water temperatures that break down the coral´s symbiotic relationship with algae that provide food for coral growth.
|
North Korea moves second missile
as UN chief warns ´nuclear
threat is not a game´
|
|
Daily Express [UK], by Charlotte Meredith
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/5/2013 5:36:43 AM
Post Reply
|
|
North Korea has transported two more missiles to the east coast, Seoul military sources have revealed, triggering speculation that it is ready for an abrupt missile launch. North Korea has loaded two intermediate-range missiles onto mobile launchers and hidden them in an unidentified facility near the east coast, South Korea´s Yonhap news agency has said. "It has been confirmed that North Korea, early this week, transported two Musudan mid-range missiles by train to the east coast and loaded them on vehicles equipped with launch pads," Yonhap quoted the official as saying. The official said the mobile launchers had since
|
Is North Korea really
looking to start a war?
|
|
Telegraph [UK], by Shashank Joshi
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/4/2013 3:47:13 PM
Post Reply
|
|
As the US and China grow increasingly involved, Kim Jong-un must be brought into line if war is not to be triggered by an act of recklessness. There are two schools of thought about what lies behind North Korea’s increasingly frenzied posturing. The first goes like this: the rhetoric emanating from Pyongyang--including calls to “break the waists of the crazy enemies [and] totally cut their windpipes”--is no worse than their decades-old ritualistic promises to turn South Korea into a “sea of fire”. What we are witnessing, according to this theory, is nothing more than an inexperienced leader
|
Islamism is winning the cognitive
war – thanks to manipulative
and gullible journalists
|
|
Telegraph [UK], by Richard Landes
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/4/2013 3:43:17 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Anyone who remembers the halcyon dreams of the 1990s, of civil society spreading the world over, heralding a new peaceful, global millennium, must marvel at the path the young 21st century has taken. Even those who paid attention to global Jihad before the millennium could not imagine how vulnerable the West would prove in the coming, wildly asymmetrical war. Those who, over the course of the last 13 years, have awakened to the ever-growing danger of Islamism and to the astonishing inability of decent people--Muslims and non-Muslims--to effectively oppose its aggressions, owe themselves a brief lesson in cognitive warfare, and
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns
|
|
Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
|
´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo
|
|
Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
|
Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion
|
|
Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
|
Broadcasters worry
about ´Zero TV´ homes
|
|
Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
|
Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
|
|
Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
Post Reply
|
|
On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
|
Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth
|
|
Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
|
Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage
|
|
The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
|
The Secrets of Princeton
|
|
New York Times, by Ross Douthat
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
|
Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
|
|
Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
|
Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
Call from Obama - report
|
|
Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
Post Reply
|
|
North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
|
Is going gluten-free
healthier for everybody?
|
|
The Week, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
|
|
© 2013 Lucianne.com Media Inc.
FS
|
|
