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The People’s Record Daily News Update - Whose news? Our news!
November 14, 2012
Here are some stories you may not otherwise read about today:
- The indigenous Gbagyi people in Nigeria are protesting and demanding some sort of financial compensation for the country’s capital city being built on their land just a few decades ago.
- American Airlines employee, Luis Montano was suspended after the TSA put him on the no-fly list under “suspicion of being a terrorist,” preventing him from coming to work and doing his job. Montano has worked for American Airlines for more than 13 years and has been out of work for more than two-months because of the TSA’s actions against him. An effort is now underway to rectify the TSA disaster.
- An unarmed man in Florida was brutally attacked and tased by the police after taking a garden hose and trying to put out a fire in his neighbor’s house. The brutal assault from police occurred in front of the man’s two children and was executed, not because the man posed any threat to anybody but because he did not follow the command of the police officers to not hose down his house and to “let the insurance company take care of it.”
- Thousands have taken to the street in protest yesterday & today in Jordan, calling for a general strike and for ‘revolution’ in Amman and at least 12 other cities. “Revolution, revolution, it is a popular revolution,” chanted about 2,000 in an impromptu demonstration at a main Amman square yesterday.
- Tortilla wrappers in Mexico have organized a public protest & awareness campaign against the disappearances of Mexican women in Juarez. More than three dozen tortilla shops have joined the campaign which illustrates the disappeared on tortilla wrappers and displays a phone number to call with information about any of the disappeared.
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TSA forces dying leukemia patient to take off bandages
October 11, 2012
A 34-year-old woman with terminal leukemia went through the Seattle-Tacoma Airport recently to take the last trip of her life — a vacation to Hawaii. She says she was traumatized, however, after the TSA humiliated her at a security check-point.
Michelle Dunaj of Roseville, Michigan eventually made her way to Hawaii after leaving the Washington State airport on October 2, but not without incident. She says that Transportation Security Administration agents were far from understanding and made her uncomfortable as she attempted to catch her departing flight. Dunaj tells reporters that officers with the TSA told her she couldn’t have a private pat-down and instead made her remove her bandages and even ruined a bag of saline solution she was carrying with her, all within plain sight of every other treveler passing through the security station.
“My issue is: It was in front of everyone, and everyone was looking at me like I was a criminal or like I was doing something wrong,” Dunaj tells The Associated Press this week. “It shouldn’t have been in front of everyone.”
Dunaj said she went out of her way to call the airline ahead of time, asked for a wheelchair and even took extra precautions to make sure she had the proper documentation for her feeding tubes and prescription medicine she was bringing with her. All of those attempts at easing the security screenings that have been condemned as over-evasive by its critics couldn’t make things easier, however, and now even the TSA says they stand by their actions.
Despite claims from the woman that one of her five bags of saline solution was tore open by an agent and that her requests to be screened at a separate facility were ignored, the TSA says its officers acted according to protocol. Even after her ordeal was over, she says she was told to “move along,” which she says she found “a little rude.”
“At no point did a TSA officer open the passenger’s medically necessary liquids and the passenger was never asked to remove or pull off any bandages,” the agency claims in a response issued this week, adding, “at any point, any passenger can request private screening with a witness present.”
“We have determined that our screening procedures were followed,” TSA Northwest Region spokeswoman Lorie Dankers adds to the Associated Press. “We work to make our screening procedures as minimally invasive as possible while providing the level of security that the American people want and deserve.”
Dunaj is expected to enter hospice on October 17, but says she managed to cross “number one” off her bucket list with her recent trip.
“Hawaii was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen,” she tells the AP.
Earlier this month, The Star-Ledger newspaper out of New Jersey published the findings of an undercover, internal TSA investigation from earlier this year that found TSA agents at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the busiest travel hubs in the country, were caught performing their security duties correctly just 16.7 percent of the time.
Doesn’t America make you feel safe?
Update on airport stripper, and it is good news!
July 18, 2012
This man, who we blogged about back in April was acquitted today! Yay!
As Brennan left the stand Wednesday, he said that his protest was also intended to give the TSA an idea of the effect its policies had on travelers, especially the body-scanners that produce images of passengers without clothes on.
“I wanted to show them it’s a two-way street,” he said. “I don’t like a naked picture of me being available.”
Badass Strips Naked as a Form of Protest Against TSA
April 18, 2012
A 50-year-old man who said he felt that airport screeners were “harassing” him stripped naked at Portland International Airport, police in Oregon said.
Police charged John E. Brennan with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure after he disrobed while going through the security screening area at the airport Tuesday evening.
“When interviewed about his actions, Mr. Brennan stated he fly’s (sic) a lot and had disrobed as a form of protest against TSA screeners who he felt were harassing him,” a police incident report said.
He was not intoxicated or under the influence of drugs at the time, police said.
