Attention Paul supporters! We need the Constitution restored! Quick!

The Internets are just buzzing with this story. Progressives are expressing outrage! Shock! They can't believe this is happening in America!




Blonde White Woman Treated like a Mexican!!!

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12/12/2007

by Erla Ósk Arnardóttir Lillendahl (English Translation: Gunnar Tómasson, Certified translator)

During the last twenty-four hours I have probably experienced the greatest humiliation to which I have ever been subjected. During these last twenty-four hours I have been handcuffed and chained, denied the chance to sleep, been without food and drink and been confined to a place without anyone knowing my whereabouts, imprisoned. Now I am beginning to try to understand all this, rest and review the events which began as innocently as possible.

Last Sunday I and a few other girls began our trip to New York. We were going to shop and enjoy the Christmas spirit. We made ourselves comfortable on first class, drank white wine and looked forward to go shopping, eat good food and enjoy life. When we landed at JFK airport the traditional clearance process began. We were screened and went on to passport control. As I waited for them to finish examining my passport I heard an official say that there was something which needed to be looked at more closely and I was directed to the work station of Homeland Security. There I was told that according to their records I had overstayed my visa by 3 weeks in 1995. For this reason I would not be admitted to the country and would be sent home on the next flight. I looked at the official in disbelief and told him that I had in fact visited New York after the trip in 1995 without encountering any difficulties. A detailed interrogation session ensued. I was photographed and fingerprinted. I was asked questions which I felt had nothing to do with the issue at hand. I was forbidden to contact anyone to advise of my predicament and although I was invited at the outset to contact the Icelandic consul or embassy, that invitation was later withdrawn. I don't know why. I was then made to wait while they sought further information, and sat on a chair before the authority for 5 hours. I saw the officials in this section handle other cases and it was clear that these were men anxious to demonstrate their power. Small kings with megalomania. I was careful to remain completely cooperative, for I did not yet believe that they planned to deport me because of my "crime". When 5 hours had passed and I had been awake for 24 hours, I was told that they were waiting for officials who would take me to a kind of waiting room. There I would be given a bed to rest in, some food and I would be searched. What they thought they might find I cannot possibly imagine. Finally guards appeared who transported me to the new place. I saw the bed as if in a mirage, for I was absolutely exhausted. What turned out was something else. I was taken to another office exactly like the one where I had been before and once again a long wait ensued. In all, it turned out to be 5 hours. At this office all my things were taken from me. I succeeded in sending a single sms to worried relatives and friends when I was granted a bathroom break. After that the cell phone was taken from me. After I had been sitting for 5 hours I was told that they were now waiting for guards who would take me to a place where I could rest and eat. Then I was placed in a cubicle which looked like an operating room. Attached to the walls were 4 steel plates, probably intended to serve as bed and a toilet. I was exhausted, tired and hungry. I didn't understand the officials’ conduct, for they were treating me like a very dangerous criminal. Soon thereafter I was removed from the cubicle and two armed guards placed me up against a wall. A chain was fastened around my waist and I was handcuffed to the chain. Then my legs were placed in chains. I asked for permission to make a telephone call but they refused. So secured, I was taken from the airport terminal in full sight of everybody. I have seldom felt so bad, so humiliated and all because I had taken a longer vacation than allowed under the law.

They would not tell me where they were taking me. The trip took close to one hour and although I couldn’t see clearly outside the vehicle I knew that we had crossed over into New Jersey. We ended up in front of a jail. I could hardly believe that this was happening. Was I really about to be jailed? I was led inside in the chains and there yet another interrogation session ensued. I was fingerprinted once again and photographed. I was made to undergo a medical examination, I was searched and then I was placed in a jail cell. I was asked absurd questions such as: When did you have your last period? What do you believe in? Have you ever tried to commit suicide?

I was completely exhausted, tired and cold. Fourteen hours after I had landed I had something to eat and drink for the first time. I was given porridge and bread. But it did not help much. I was afraid and the attitude of all who handled me was abysmal to say the least. They did not speak to me as much as snap at me. Once again I asked to make a telephone call and this time the answer was positive. I was relieved but the relief was short-lived. For the telephone was set up for collect calls only and it was not possible to make overseas calls. The jailguard held my cell phone in his hand. I explained to him that I could not make a call from the jail telephone and asked to be allowed to make one call from my own phone. That was out of the question. I spent the next 9 hours in a small, dirty cell. The only thing in there was a narrow steel board which extended out from the wall, a sink and toilet. I wish I never experience again in my life the feeling of confinement and helplessness which I experienced there.

I was hugely relieved when, at last, I was told that I was to be taken to the airport, that is to say until I was again handcuffed and chained.Then I could take no more and broke down and cried. I begged them at least to leave out the leg chains but my request was ignored. When we arrived at the airport, another jail guard took pity on me and removed the leg chains. Even so I was led through a full airport terminal handcuffed and escorted by armed men. I felt terrible. On seeing this, people must think that there goes a very dangerous criminal. In this condition I was led up into the Icelandair waiting room, and was kept handcuffed until I entered the embarkation corridor. I was completely run down by all this in both body and spirit. Fortunately I could count on good people and both Einar (the captain) and the crew did all which they could to try to assist me. My friend Auður was in close contact with my sister and the consul and embassy had been contacted. However, all had received misleading information and all had been told that I had been detained at the airport terminal, not that I had been put in jail. Now the Foreign Ministry is looking into the matter and I hope to receive some explanation why I was treated this way.

link (http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/entry/389611/)

Oh, the humanity. How, how could something like this happen?

Maybe going on the gold standard will give us back our freedoms and end the cruel tyranny!

http://eggmann.blog.is/img/tncache/500x500/d2/eggmann/img/erlaosk3_279954.jpg

Attention Paul supporters! We need the Constitution restored! Quick!

The Internets are just buzzing with this story. Progressives are expressing outrage! Shock! They can't believe this is happening in America!




Blonde White Woman Treated like a Mexican!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/JeffWells/subalbum1/bilde_386223.jpg

12/12/2007

by Erla Ósk Arnardóttir Lillendahl (English Translation: Gunnar Tómasson, Certified translator)

During the last twenty-four hours I have probably experienced the greatest humiliation to which I have ever been subjected. During these last twenty-four hours I have been handcuffed and chained, denied the chance to sleep, been without food and drink and been confined to a place without anyone knowing my whereabouts, imprisoned. Now I am beginning to try to understand all this, rest and review the events which began as innocently as possible.

Last Sunday I and a few other girls began our trip to New York. We were going to shop and enjoy the Christmas spirit. We made ourselves comfortable on first class, drank white wine and looked forward to go shopping, eat good food and enjoy life. When we landed at JFK airport the traditional clearance process began. We were screened and went on to passport control. As I waited for them to finish examining my passport I heard an official say that there was something which needed to be looked at more closely and I was directed to the work station of Homeland Security. There I was told that according to their records I had overstayed my visa by 3 weeks in 1995. For this reason I would not be admitted to the country and would be sent home on the next flight. I looked at the official in disbelief and told him that I had in fact visited New York after the trip in 1995 without encountering any difficulties. A detailed interrogation session ensued. I was photographed and fingerprinted. I was asked questions which I felt had nothing to do with the issue at hand. I was forbidden to contact anyone to advise of my predicament and although I was invited at the outset to contact the Icelandic consul or embassy, that invitation was later withdrawn. I don't know why. I was then made to wait while they sought further information, and sat on a chair before the authority for 5 hours. I saw the officials in this section handle other cases and it was clear that these were men anxious to demonstrate their power. Small kings with megalomania. I was careful to remain completely cooperative, for I did not yet believe that they planned to deport me because of my "crime". When 5 hours had passed and I had been awake for 24 hours, I was told that they were waiting for officials who would take me to a kind of waiting room. There I would be given a bed to rest in, some food and I would be searched. What they thought they might find I cannot possibly imagine. Finally guards appeared who transported me to the new place. I saw the bed as if in a mirage, for I was absolutely exhausted. What turned out was something else. I was taken to another office exactly like the one where I had been before and once again a long wait ensued. In all, it turned out to be 5 hours. At this office all my things were taken from me. I succeeded in sending a single sms to worried relatives and friends when I was granted a bathroom break. After that the cell phone was taken from me. After I had been sitting for 5 hours I was told that they were now waiting for guards who would take me to a place where I could rest and eat. Then I was placed in a cubicle which looked like an operating room. Attached to the walls were 4 steel plates, probably intended to serve as bed and a toilet. I was exhausted, tired and hungry. I didn't understand the officials’ conduct, for they were treating me like a very dangerous criminal. Soon thereafter I was removed from the cubicle and two armed guards placed me up against a wall. A chain was fastened around my waist and I was handcuffed to the chain. Then my legs were placed in chains. I asked for permission to make a telephone call but they refused. So secured, I was taken from the airport terminal in full sight of everybody. I have seldom felt so bad, so humiliated and all because I had taken a longer vacation than allowed under the law.

They would not tell me where they were taking me. The trip took close to one hour and although I couldn’t see clearly outside the vehicle I knew that we had crossed over into New Jersey. We ended up in front of a jail. I could hardly believe that this was happening. Was I really about to be jailed? I was led inside in the chains and there yet another interrogation session ensued. I was fingerprinted once again and photographed. I was made to undergo a medical examination, I was searched and then I was placed in a jail cell. I was asked absurd questions such as: When did you have your last period? What do you believe in? Have you ever tried to commit suicide?

I was completely exhausted, tired and cold. Fourteen hours after I had landed I had something to eat and drink for the first time. I was given porridge and bread. But it did not help much. I was afraid and the attitude of all who handled me was abysmal to say the least. They did not speak to me as much as snap at me. Once again I asked to make a telephone call and this time the answer was positive. I was relieved but the relief was short-lived. For the telephone was set up for collect calls only and it was not possible to make overseas calls. The jailguard held my cell phone in his hand. I explained to him that I could not make a call from the jail telephone and asked to be allowed to make one call from my own phone. That was out of the question. I spent the next 9 hours in a small, dirty cell. The only thing in there was a narrow steel board which extended out from the wall, a sink and toilet. I wish I never experience again in my life the feeling of confinement and helplessness which I experienced there.

I was hugely relieved when, at last, I was told that I was to be taken to the airport, that is to say until I was again handcuffed and chained.Then I could take no more and broke down and cried. I begged them at least to leave out the leg chains but my request was ignored. When we arrived at the airport, another jail guard took pity on me and removed the leg chains. Even so I was led through a full airport terminal handcuffed and escorted by armed men. I felt terrible. On seeing this, people must think that there goes a very dangerous criminal. In this condition I was led up into the Icelandair waiting room, and was kept handcuffed until I entered the embarkation corridor. I was completely run down by all this in both body and spirit. Fortunately I could count on good people and both Einar (the captain) and the crew did all which they could to try to assist me. My friend Auður was in close contact with my sister and the consul and embassy had been contacted. However, all had received misleading information and all had been told that I had been detained at the airport terminal, not that I had been put in jail. Now the Foreign Ministry is looking into the matter and I hope to receive some explanation why I was treated this way.

link (http://eggmann.blog.is/blog/eggmann/entry/389611/)

Oh, the humanity. How, how could something like this happen?

Maybe going on the gold standard will give us back our freedoms and end the cruel tyranny!

http://eggmann.blog.is/img/tncache/500x500/d2/eggmann/img/erlaosk3_279954.jpg



When they came after the blondes I said nothing

Does this count as a post about bondage?

Look closely at the first photo and what do you see? To the trained eyes at TSA and Homeland Security, those telltale brunette roots indicate hair-coloring, most likely to eliminate obvious evidence of being infected with genes from the browner races. Haven't you ever seen Battle of Algiers? She is obviously an Islamic terrorist or a Mexican, looking to illegally work for minimum while sapping our vital fluids. I'll bet our high-tech sniffers or trained animal helpers checked her out immediately. "Mistakes" are a pre-911 concept.

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833,000 human beings have received exactly this treatment, or worse, the vast majority of them completely innocent. Yet not only has there been very little shock or outrage expressed at the various liberal boards about this ongoing travesty, if I didn't post about it the subject would never come up, and there are always a number of people who not only are not alarmed or even concerned about this, they show up and aggressively defend Homeland Security and attack those of us who post about it.

One white women is treated the way that hundreds of thousands of people of color have been all along, and there are massive expressions of shock and outrage without a dissenting voice (other than mine.)

Failing to face up to the pervasive racism and to attack it, we will fail at everything, while attacking racism is the shortest and truest path to developing class consciousness and to beating back the right wing. I am now more convinced of this than ever.

There are only a few of us who consistently and forcefully discuss racism; chlamor has led the way. Those of us who do are under constant assault, and the number of people who come to our aid is shamefully small.

This is the Achille's heel of the fake left. This is the dirty little secret of the Democrats and of the liberals and the progressives.

I don't care how many little mutual admiration society happy progressive lovefests I break up by pushing the issue of racism, and pushing it as hard as I can, I would rather fight and lose on this issue than ignore it and pretend that we can make any progress if we ignore it.

I don't care what people's theories are about this - "it is class, not race" it is quite clear that 100 people of color tortured does not equal one white woman inconvenienced in the minds of almost all whites - no matter how much they bullshit about this and deny it. Every now and then a news item comes up like this one and the whole rotten lie is revealed in all of its ignominy.

If we cannot rally in defense of the human beings who are actually being imprisoned, actually being abused, actually being tortured, and actually being killed, because doing so would "make it about race" or "be playing the race card" or whatever other bullshit that white folks come up with to dodge this issue, then we have lost any moral right to discuss tyranny and injustice at all.

I am sorry that white people are inconvenienced. I am sorry that they are disturbed or frightened. But we coddle and kow tow to their sentiments and emotional comfort at our own extreme peril.

People who are resistant to seeing and discussing racism can never be allies in any case until and unless they do, and no amount of soft-pedaling or polite explanations or reasoned arguments are getting us there.

Racism is the key pillar that holds up liberal white suburban privilege, and liberal white suburban privilege is the key pillar that protects and defends the interests of the ruling class. That isn't my agenda or theory speaking - look the fuck around for yourself - I am making an observation.

If someone else has an explanation as to why there is such a stark disparity between the reactions of progressives and liberals to the plight of one white woman when compared to a million people of color, I would like to hear it.

I am calling racism on the entire left, such as it is, - the liberals, the Democrats, the progressives and the people calling themselves socialists and radicals—with a pathetically small number of exceptions - and I am further asserting that the failure to face racism is where the entire battle is being lost.

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833,000 human beings have received exactly this treatment, or worse, the vast majority of them completely innocent. Yet not only has there been very little shock or outrage expressed at the various liberal boards about this ongoing travesty, if I didn't post about it the subject would never come up, and there are always a number of people who not only are not alarmed or even concerned about this, they show up and aggressively defend Homeland Security and attack those of us who post about it.

One white women is treated the way that hundreds of thousands of people of color have been all along, and there are massive expressions of shock and outrage without a dissenting voice (other than mine.)

Failing to face up to the pervasive racism and to attack it, we will fail at everything, while attacking racism is the shortest and truest path to developing class consciousness and to beating back the right wing. I am now more convinced of this than ever.

There are only a few of us who consistently and forcefully discuss racism; chlamor has led the way. Those of us who do are under constant assault, and the number of people who come to our aid is shamefully small.

This is the Achille's heel of the fake left. This is the dirty little secret of the Democrats and of the liberals and the progressives.

I don't care how many little mutual admiration society happy progressive lovefests I break up by pushing the issue of racism, and pushing it as hard as I can, I would rather fight and lose on this issue than ignore it and pretend that we can make any progress if we ignore it.

I don't care what people's theories are about this - "it is class, not race" it is quite clear that 100 people of color tortured does not equal one white woman inconvenienced in the minds of almost all whites - no matter how much they bullshit about this and deny it. Every now and then a news item comes up like this one and the whole rotten lie is revealed in all of its ignominy.

If we cannot rally in defense of the human beings who are actually being imprisoned, actually being abused, actually being tortured, and actually being killed, because doing so would "make it about race" or "be playing the race card" or whatever other bullshit that white folks come up with to dodge this issue, then we have lost any moral right to discuss tyranny and injustice at all.

I am sorry that white people are inconvenienced. I am sorry that they are disturbed or frightened. But we coddle and kow tow to their sentiments and emotional comfort at our own extreme peril.

People who are resistant to seeing and discussing racism can never be allies in any case until and unless they do, and no amount of soft-pedaling or polite explanations or reasoned arguments are getting us there.

Racism is the key pillar that holds up liberal white suburban privilege, and liberal white suburban privilege is the key pillar that protects and defends the interests of the ruling class. That isn't my agenda or theory speaking - look the fuck around for yourself - I am making an observation.

If someone else has an explanation as to why there is such a stark disparity between the reactions of progressives and liberals to the plight of one white woman when compared to a million people of color, I would like to hear it.

I am calling racism on the entire left, such as it is, - the liberals, the Democrats, the progressives and the people calling themselves socialists and radicals—with a pathetically small number of exceptions - and I am further asserting that the failure to face racism is where the entire battle is being lost.

That's right.

This story is actually generating "buzz" in the liberal circles. Two women, yes "well-educated liberal ladies", went from talking about how they "found" vegetarianism to this story in the typical sound-byte space of 20 or 30 seconds in the Co-Op eating area the other evening. I happened upon this conversation and dutifully interjected on both accounts. You should have seen the looks on their faces when I said , "Hey if you are going to live within the energy constraints of this Bio-region and survive the winter you'll be eating meat so stop acting so superior," followed by "Hey how come noone's getting worked up about all the immigrants being detained. Do you think racism is at work here?"

Well the conversation got pretty bizarre and tense as one of the women went from one digression to the next I suspect to avoid the discomfort. I wouldn't let it go and walked out the door with them agitating all the way.

I should write a book on these Co-Op encounters. It's nasty validation of exactly what you are saying.