Friday, July 08, 2016

“Partially deaf, blind in one eye, paralyzed, and easily confused”: So of course the TSA beat her up...

What crushing irony: over the weekend of July 4, as Americans celebrated their alleged freedom, the TSA graphically proved yet again our total enslavement.

The outrage in question actually dates to June 30, 2015; it’s only now hitting the headlines thanks to Hannah Cohen’s lawsuit. But last year, when she was 18, Hannah tried to fly with her mother to their home in Chattanooga from Memphis, TN. The duo were pros at this route, having traveled it “hundreds of times” over the last 17 years, “without incident ever,” to treat Hannah at St Jude’s Medical Center. This particular trip was special since it was the final one.

Hannah probably inspires everyone around her. Though she’s suffered “damage from radiation and removal of a brain tumor that substantially limits her ability to speak, walk, stand, see, hear, care for herself, learn work, think, concentrate, and interact with others,” she frequently braves commercial aviation, a gauntlet that daunts even the strongest and healthiest. Her mother, Shirley, “a professor of nursing at a university in Chattanooga,” summarizes Hannah’s condition as “partially deaf, blind in one eye, paralyzed, and easily confused…”

Perhaps to mark the end of an era at St Jude’s, Hannah wore a sequined blouse for the flight home. There was a time when free people dressed as they pleased, but no longer. Those sequins set off the TSA’s gizmos—you know, the ones that beep at innocuous clothing while allowing 96% of contraband on TSA harasses stroke victim; demands mute woman talk to screeners in order to fly...undercover investigators to slide right through checkpoints. Full story...

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