What a scared, paranoid country we have become.

[Logical]

Flight on 9/11 anniversary ends in handcuffs for housewife

Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday.

No charges were filed against Hebshi, a self-described "half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio," or the two men sitting next to her, who were flying in from Denver when the crew of Frontier Airlines Flight 623 alerted authorities that they were reportedly behaving suspiciously.

In a blog post titled "Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit," Hebshi, an American citizen, told her tale of temporary detainment, which she had begun to share with Twitter followers in real-time — until handcuffs were placed on her wrists.
Hebshi, a writer and editor and mother of twin sons, didn't know the other two passengers in Row 12. They were Indian men, she wrote. And they didn't know each other. But they got a lot closer when they were all crammed into the back of a squad car.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44501310/ns/us_news-security/

[atreides1]

1. Interesting

I wonder how many white male passengers made numerous trips to the restrooms, but because of their skin color it wasn't suspicious behavior...that only counts if your brown and look like an arab!

Land of the Free and Home of the Brave my Ass!!!

Home of the sheep and land of the cowardly and racist...is more like it!!!

[Logical]

2. Great points! n-t

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

3. America, I cried and mourned with you after 9/11

and then watched in horror as your beady eyes darted around in search of something to attack.

[ChandlerJr]

4. Become?

Perhaps you are forgetting

Overman Committee and the "Red Scare" c. 1917

HUAC and "Communist Subversion" and the "Hollywood blacklist" c.1940s

FDR's roundup and interment of Japanese citizens on the W. Coast post Pearl Harbor

Senator Joe McCarthy "Army–McCarthy hearings" c.1950s

The FBI, under written directive from RFK investigating MLK's communist ties

This country has become nothing new at all, always been that way.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

5. The continued infiltrating and spying on peace groups.

[lib2DaBone]

6. What if we left the Mid East..Pulled our troops out.. quit killing women and children..

Would the terrorists want to attack America if we were not killing women and children?

Why are we fighting in the Mid East? Does it make sense?

What does "VICTORY" in the WOT look like?

[Logical]

7. You are correct. More hate of us now than ever.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

8. And I dislike our direction now more than ever.

We should have the foresight to see where this direction will lead.
But sadly we don't.

[indepat]

11. The more who hate us, the more who will try to retaliate, the more funding that will be poured into

the MIC and the private contractors? A win-win? :patriot:

[Hydra]

9. "Victory"

Is Dick Cheny and the rest of his cadre cashing the check for $40 Trillion.

Oh, that and 15 million dead Arabs our soldiers.

See? Victory is selling our future and our children to the greedy and depraved.

[Bandit]

10. But how could we be scared shitless if we have guns up the yazoo..

...:shrug:

[seabeyond]

12. we have become a cowardly people. nt

[indepat]

13. The smell of a frigging, paranoid police state. Maybe Ms. Hebshi will have her day in the court of

public opinion and outrage. Such as this makes a mockery of Lee Greenwood's anthem. :patriot: