Baby held in locked room at airport (by Homeland Security!) dies

[Carl]

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KamaAina  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-12-08 03:23 PM
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Baby held in locked room at airport (by Homeland Security!) dies
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14-day-old Michael Futi was traveling to Honolulu for heart surgery -- from American Samoa. Yet DHS goons detained the family anyway, and Futi died of respiratory failure. A wrongful death lawsuit is in the offing.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...

A 14-day-old infant traveling here for heart surgery died at Honolulu International Airport on Friday after he, his mother and a nurse were detained by immigration officials in a locked room, a lawyer for the boy's family said.

The Honolulu medical examiner's office yesterday identified the infant as Michael Futi of Tafuna, American Samoa's largest village, which is located on the east coast of Tutuila Island. Autopsy findings have been deferred.

According to police, the child died at 5:50 a.m. It is unknown why immigration officials detained the mother, the nurse and the child.

Scott Ishikawa, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said the child went into respiratory failure while in the customs office, which is located near the baggage claims area of the overseas terminal. Airport paramedics were called about 6:10 a.m., he said.

So the Keystone Kops Homeland Security called the paramedics 20 minutes after the baby had died?! In the words of those Guinness ads, "Brilliant!"

There is not much information given and it could be incompetance or a tragic mistake.
Regardless a very sad event.

The reaction of the primitives goes beyond appaling though as it gives them an opening to freely express their hatred for this country.

PDJane  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-12-08 03:27 PM
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2. I don't think of America as
   a place with much compassion anymore. This is simply sickening.

Mad_Dem_X  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 03:37 PM
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16. I don't even recognize my country anymore
   Edited on Tue Feb-12-08 03:38 PM by Mad_Dem_X
Every day, we get further and further away from what America used to be. I am absolutely disgusted.
   

Those were mild.

Husb2Sparkly  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-12-08 03:28 PM
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5. American Gestapo
   Can anyone convince me that descriptor is inappropriate?

conscious evolution (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 05:04 PM
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48. We have the Gestapo and the SS here now.
   I know a lot of people who will be taking up arms against blackwater if they ever come to Atlanta under arms.

 

gaspee  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 03:29 PM
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8. They need to be tried
   For manslaughter. Our ****ing police state is a disgrace. Forget the *******ed candidate wars and work on fighting back the power of the police state.

lpbk2713  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 03:29 PM
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9. They can do this shit because they operate without any accountability.
   


They can do whatever they want to do and get away with it because they answer to no one.

That's how BushCo set it up and they would not have it any other way.

Unfuggenbelievable.

Yep didn`t take long to Blame President Bush.

lpbk2713  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 03:34 PM
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14. They may have been brown skinned.
   


That would have been their first big offense.



Then it was downhill after that.

Race baiting followed shortly.

Hepburn  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 04:11 PM
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31. ****ing Nazi assholes!!!!!
   

Rosemary2205  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 04:20 PM
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40. Sigh.
   Oh and **** you Homeland Security.

High Plains (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 04:37 PM
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46. This is the third thread today about vicious law enforcement behavior
   And some wonder why people call them pigs.
   

1monster  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-12-08 07:28 PM
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61. I'd never so insult a
   pig. They are really rather neat animals.

You should be soooo proud of your spawn skinner.

AX10 (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 07:34 PM
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65. The Department of Homeland Security is nothing but...
   a terrorist organization.

angstlessk  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-12-08 07:35 PM
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66. More people have died at the hands of 'Homeland' security than terrorists since 9/11
   this is just disgusting!

Care to offer proof?

[LadyLiberty]

If these hate infested maggots cared one iota about the poor baby that died, they'd have said as much. Instead, they used this as (another) opportunity to degrade  America.

What made my face wrinkle up (huh???) were the remarks about how they don't "recognize" America anymore. Do they think that immigrants didn't die coming into this country during the industrial revolution...or ever, for that matter. That is just another example of their incredible ignorance, and they all just lap it up.

[Lord Undies]

And just fifteen short days ago any DUmmie in the tribe would have celebtated that same baby's murder at the hands of its own mother.

It is such a strange and convoluted world the DUmmies live in.

[dandi]

Of course "America" and "Homeland Security" in general have to be blamed, even though there are no details in the story. It couldn't just be the result of bad decisions on the part of one or two individuals, or a freak occurrence with no one really at fault. And they wonder why people accuse them of hating America.

Is this the "critical thinking" part? Are we there yet?

Warpy  (1000+ posts)       Tue Feb-12-08 03:34 PM
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My heart goes out to this poor mother, whose only crime was most likely flying while brown.

lpbk2713  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-12-08 03:34 PM
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14. They may have been brown skinned.
 


That would have been their first big offense.

Yeah, cuz we all know how those brown-skinned Pacific Islanders are singled out in ****ing HAWAII.

I swear to God, you could cut these idiots' heads off and they wouldn't be any dumber.
 
 

[Carl]

Of course "America" and "Homeland Security" in general have to be blamed, even though there are no details in the story. It couldn't just be the result of bad decisions on the part of one or two individuals, or a freak occurrence with no one really at fault. And they wonder why people accuse them of hating America.

Is this the "critical thinking" part? Are we there yet?

Exactly,a horribly sad tragedy but without any more info no way to know what happened and what needs to be done.

That they would use it as a jump off point to spew their bile and hatred would tell all one needs to know of them.
Vile things.