{"id":824,"date":"2002-12-22T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T00:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/22\/dont-fly-pregnant\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:45:46","slug":"dont-fly-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/22\/dont-fly-pregnant\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t fly pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15590,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lewrockwell.com\\\/orig3\\\/monahan1.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130514042439\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.lewrockwell.com:80\\\/orig3\\\/monahan1.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:11:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:11:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This story will probably be all over the &#8216;net in a day or two, if it isn&#8217;t already, but it&#8217;s something that really needs to be read to be believed. A husband and his pregnant wife were attempting to fly out of Portland to go to a friend&#8217;s wedding when they were both pulled off for extra &#8220;security screening&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  After some more grumbling on my part they eventually finished with me and I went to retrieve our luggage from the x-ray machine. Upon returning I found my wife sitting in a chair, crying. Mary rarely cries, and certainly not in public. When I asked her what was the matter, she tried to quell her tears and sobbed, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8230;it&#8217;s&#8230;they touched my breasts&#8230;and&#8230;&#8221; That&#8217;s all I heard. I marched up to the woman who&#8217;d been examining her and shouted, &#8220;What did you do to her?&#8221; Later I found out that in addition to touching her swollen breasts &#8212; to protect the American citizenry &#8212; the employee had asked that she lift up her shirt. Not behind a screen, not off to the side &#8212; no, right there, directly in front of the hundred or so passengers standing in line. And for you women who&#8217;ve been pregnant and worn maternity pants, you know how ridiculous those things look. &#8220;I felt like a clown,&#8221; my wife told me later. &#8220;On display for all these people, with the cotton panel on my pants and my stomach sticking out. When I sat down I just lost my composure and began to cry. That&#8217;s when you walked up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Of course when I say she &#8220;told me later,&#8221; it&#8217;s because she wasn&#8217;t able to tell me at the time, because as soon as I demanded to know what the federal employee had done to make her cry, I was swarmed by Portland police officers. Instantly. Three of them, cinching my arms, locking me in handcuffs, and telling me I was under arrest. Now my wife really began to cry. As they led me away and she ran alongside, I implored her to calm down, to think of the baby, promising her that everything would turn out all right. She faded into the distance and I was shoved into an elevator, a cop holding each arm. After making me face the corner, the head honcho told that I was under arrest and that I wouldn&#8217;t be flying that day &#8212; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/orig3\/monahan1.html\" title=\"Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?\">I was in fact a &#8220;menace.&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s no longer a &#8220;what if&#8221; scenario &#8212; these things are happening, all over the place, every day. Some are getting reported, many more are not. And as the author of the piece says, it&#8217;s probably too late to stop it at this point, though not too late to make our indignation known.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  There are plenty of stories like this these days. I don&#8217;t know how many I&#8217;ve read where the writer describes some breach of civil liberties by employees of the state, then wraps it all up with a dire warning about what we as a nation are becoming, and how if we don&#8217;t put an end to it now, then we&#8217;re in for heaps of trouble. Well you know what? Nothing&#8217;s going to stop the inevitable. There&#8217;s no policy change that&#8217;s going to save us. There&#8217;s no election that&#8217;s going to put a halt to the onslaught of tyranny. It&#8217;s here already &#8212; this country has changed for the worse and will continue to change for the worse. There is now a division between the citizenry and the state. When that state is used as a tool against me, there is no longer any reason why I should owe any allegiance to that state.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A husband and his pregnant wife were attempting to fly out of Portland to go to a friend&#8217;s wedding when they were both pulled off for extra &#8216;security screening&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}