UFOs Appearing in Russian Skies

December 30, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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Russian Television (RT) is now reporting UFOs beginning to appear over the skies of Russia and has released a video and news article confirming these sighting.

Former NORAD officer Stanley A. Fulham released a statement just prior to his recent death from pancreatic cancer that stated that a regional galactic governance council would begin more frequent UFO appearances in 2011, starting with “a major UFO display over Moscow between the end of the first part of January 2011 and the second week of January 2011.”

Query: Is this wave of UFO sightings now beginning over Russia part of the UFO wave predicted by Stanley A. Fulham in his final statement?

The galactic governance council, whose predicted October 13, 2010 UFO sightings over New York in fact occurred, has announced its intention via dimensional communications to both Stanley A. Fulham and a former NATO-Spanish intelligence officer to intervene in Earth’s public affairs and begin to clean the earth’s ecology to avoid its permanent collapse

Russian Television (RT): December 29, 2010

Click here or watch the video embedded in the article above to view a Russian Television report on the December 2010 UFO wave in Russia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx7_Gou2l2A&feature=player_embedded

RT also reported the following on December 29, 2010:

UFOs begin to frequent Russian skies in December

In early December UFOs began to frequent the skies of the capital of the republic of Kalmykia, located in southern Russia. Every ten days the residents of Elista seen UFOs of unknown nature in different parts of the city.

Latest information on this phenomenon appeared on 22 December when witnesses observed this type of flying objects in different parts of Elista. So some citizens say they have seen in the sky two concentric circles spinning in opposite directions. Others speak of a triangular object radiating light.

Scientists can not give a rational explanation for these phenomena. For example, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Kalmykia, Mijaliáyev Badme does not rule out the possibility of the existence of an alien civilization, but also sees no clear evidence of the existence in the appearance of UFOs in Elista sky.

Meanwhile, the ufologists say that UFOs appear in other parts of Russia.

Stanley A. Fulham’s December 3, 2010 statement

On December 3, 2010, Stanley A. Fulham published the following statement on his website:


(NEW) December 3, 2010: NEW JANUARY 2011 UFO DISPLAY PREDICTIONS

I had advised my readers and UFOlogist supporters I would notify them by e-mail on the next major UFO display in their ‘intervention process’ with mankind which started in their major display over New York on 13th October 2010. The prediction, documented in my book Challenges of Change (Third printing in March, 2010) stated that “that there would be a major display over our principal cities” on that date.

There was a great deal of speculation about this change in the Transcendors prediction. In late September 2010 I asked the Transcendors about this significant change. They replied: “The Pleiadians are much more aware of the consciousness of mankind than you are—after all they have been observing you for millions of years. They came to the conclusion that mankind (generally speaking) is not prepared for a massive display of their UFOs over our principal cities. They would regard it as a hostile intervention—a prelude to invasion. Accordingly, the Alien Council decided about three-weeks before their ‘display’ they would focus on one of our principal cities, New York. It is recognized worldwide as our most cosmopolitan city with a population not likely to be overwhelmed by the sight of UFOs; however, the ‘display’ date of 13 October 2010 would remain. There were other major UFO sightings on that date all over the world. But the Transcendors caution that they were not part of the Council’s principal focus over New York. The New York display is simply the beginning of the Alien’s “intervention process.”

In my last ‘Reading’ with the Transcendors on Tuesday, October 13th, 2010, the Transcendors advised me of the following predictions on the Pleiadian UFO displays:

A. There will be a major UFO display over Moscow between the end of the first part of January 2011 and the second week of January 2011.

B. This ‘display’ will be followed by a major display over London approximately seven-days later.

C. Interventions will then accelerate, not so much over our cities, but dispersed over our continents with sightings increasing in duration. The intent of these interventions is to increase mankind’s acceptance of the alien phenomena, so that hopefully, we will be prepared to accept a face-to-face encounter and communicate, perhaps as early as next year (2011).

D. Objective—a dramatic introduction of the alien reality—an appearance at the United Nations.

The Alien ‘intervention process’ will provide a philosophical challenge to mankind as nothing else has ever done. It will challenge our most fundamental beliefs. Did Christ teach to this extraterrestrial world? Are they aware of Allah and his hatred for the heathens and infidels (which, of course, must include the aliens—they also have souls!). Do they have any religions?—or spiritualism?

The UFO ‘intervention process’ will have a major impact on the U.S. and Russian governments. This will be the catalyst that will break the “conspiracy of silence.”

UFOlogists can then divert their focus to the challenges the new alien technologies will bring to mankind.

Due to my declining health, this may be my last writing on this subject. In the meantime, I wish all my readers and ‘UFOlogist’ supporters the very best in their future work.

-    Stanley A. Fulham, December 3rd, 2010

Extraterrestrial intervention, acclimatization and UFO wave phenomena

The December 2010 UFO wave phenomena now occuring in Russia does reasonably appear to be related to the extraterrestrial acclimitization process set out in dimensional communications from the regional galactic governance council, as published by Stanley A. Fulham in his book Challenges of Change and in his Dec. 3, 2010 statement.

Two paragraphs in Stanley Fulham’s Dec. 3, 2010 statement appear particularly relevant in this regard:

Impact of UFO intervention – “The UFO ‘intervention process’ will have a major impact on the U.S. and Russian governments. This will be the catalyst that will break the ‘conspiracy of silence.’”

And

Interventions accelerate over continents – “Interventions will then accelerate, not so much over our cities, but dispersed over our continents with sightings increasing in duration. The intent of these interventions is to increase mankind’s acceptance of the alien phenomena, so that hopefully, we will be prepared to accept a face-to-face encounter and communicate, perhaps as early as next year (2011).”

It seems reasonable that the December 2010 UFO wave over Russia – if the Russian government is a prime target of the regional galactiv governance authority in breaking ‘the conspiracy of silence’ by Russia and the U.S. over the extraterrestrial presence, and its intent to save the Earth’s ecology – is part of the new UFO waves predicted by Stanley A. Fulham prior to his untimely death from pancreatic cancer.

Independent analysis has concluded that Mr. Fulham’s pancreatic cancer may have been accelerated by covert human agencies in order to silence him on the issues of the regional galactic governance council.

Seattle’s relationship to Exopolitics and this article:  According to Examiner.com, this reporter -Alfred Lambremont Webre – is “one of two experts in the field of exopolitics and this topic doesn’t generally lend itself to a local angle”.  This reporter is very proud to have this Exopolitics Examiner column based in Seattle.  Historically, “the modern phenomena of UFOs and ‘flying saucers’ began in Washington state on June 24, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold spotted nine mysterious, high-speed objects ‘flying like a saucer would’ along the crest of the Cascade Range near Mount Rainier. His report made international headlines and triggered hundreds of similar accounts of ‘flying saucers’ locally and across the nation.”  A local Seattle connection is thus embedded into every Examiner.com article this reporter has the privilege to write for our Seattle audience.
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Bureau Of Labor Services Survey Modification

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Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)

You may have heard that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has modified its survey of unemployment.  There is probably going to be a good deal of confusion over what’s being changed, so let me summarize the situation.

  • Official unemployment numbers are derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which surveys American households every month in order to gather various statistical data.  The potential confusion lies in that the CPS isn’t uniform in how it defines unemployment; depending on the question, somebody may or may not be actually considered to be in the labor market.
  • So the CPS will (over the next four months) start including people who have been out of work  for between two and five years in their calculation of median length of unemployment, which the BLS pretty explicitly thinks is being under-reported.  Previously, the cutoff date was only two years; anybody out of work for longer than that would be considered effectively not part of the work force for the purposes of determining this specific statistic.
  • However, the CPS will not change the BLS definition of ‘unemployed‘ (no job, actively looking for work in the last month, ready to work) for the purpose of their most commonly reported-on statistic (the U-3, which is currently 9.8%).  As Ed Brayton – no friend to the Right – notes, this means that the currently reported unemployment rate numbers will not change because of this policy.
  • Take up any contradiction in the assumptions behind calculating median unemployment length and calculating the current unemployment rate with the BLS.

So the real story here is not that the BLS is on the verge of reporting that the unemployment numbers are going to go through the roof.  They’re not, and that’s because of a conscious and continuing decision by the government to use the U-3 numbers (9.8%) instead of the U-6 ones (17%) (permalink): there’s no point in fudging the unemployment numbers downward with one hand while raising them with the other[*].  No, the real story is that the BLS is quietly worrying that the long-term prospects for reducing unemployment are looking pretty grim.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

[*To clarify, because this came up in comments: this was only meant to implicitly push back against the notion that the government was trying to game the system by changing the criteria for the length-out-of-work question.  They're already (in my opinion) gaming the system the other way by using U-3 numbers to reflect 'official' unemployment when they should be using the U-6 ones.]
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Tea Pary Elect Will Require New Bills Contain Statement Of Constitutional Authority

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When Republicans take over the House next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done before in the chamber’s 221-year history:

They will read the Constitution aloud.

And then they will require that every new bill contain a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing the constitutional authority to enact the proposed legislation.

Call it the tea party-ization of Congress.

“It appears that the Republicans have been listening,” said Jeff Luecke, a sales supervisor and tea party organizer in Dubuque, Iowa. “We’re so far away from our founding principles that, absolutely, this is the very, very tip of the iceberg. We need to talk about and learn about the Constitution daily.”

These are two standout changes on a long list of new rules Republicans will institute in the House when they assume the majority on Jan. 5. After handing out pocket-size Constitutions at rallies, after studying the document article by article and after demanding that Washington return to its founding principles, tea party activists have something new to applaud. A pillar of their grass-roots movement will become a staple in the bureaucracy that governs Congress.

“On November 2nd, voters called for an end to reckless spending and a renewed commitment to the Constitution,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a tea party favorite. “These new rules show that Republicans are serious about respecting the Constitution.”

But the question being debated in legal and political circles off Capitol Hill is whether the constitutional rules are simply symbolic flourishes to satisfy an emboldened and watchful tea party base.

“I think it’s entirely cosmetic,” said Kevin Gutzman, a history professor at Western Connecticut State University who said he is a conservative libertarian and sympathizes with the tea party.

“This is the way the establishment handles grass-roots movements,” he added. “They humor people who are not expert or not fully cognizant. And then once they’ve humored them and those people go away, it’s right back to business as usual. It looks like this will be business as usual – except for the half-hour or however long it takes to read the Constitution out loud.”

House Republican leaders announced dozens of new rules, including several measures designed to increase transparency in the legislative process. Committees will broadcast their hearings and mark-up sessions online, lawmaker attendance will be recorded for each committee hearing and the debt limit will no longer be automatically increased with each new budget resolution.

The reading of the Constitution will occur on Jan. 6, one day after the swearing in of Speaker-designate John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). The 4,543-word document, including all 27 amendments, could be read aloud in just 30 minutes. But the exercise probably will last longer.
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Jailed Tax Protester Richard Simkanin Dies In Prison

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The New Hampshire Free Press
October 29, 2010

Jailed Tax Protester Richard Simkanin died in prison at 12:43 yesterday. I spoke with Simakin’s friend, Daniel Schinzing of Keene, TX, who said that Simkanin had been experiencing weakness, chest pain, and had a large lump on his chest. News of Simkanin’s death was not a surprise, given his condition. He was 67 years old at the time of his death.

Simkanin had been released from prison earlier this year, but jailed again after claims of violation of his terms of release. He had served seven years in federal prison after refusing to withhold taxes from his employees at his Bedford, TX plastics business. He had been sentenced to an additional 7 years after his alleged violation of terms of release.

Richard’s story, according to http://www.dicksimkanin.com/

“Dick Simkanin stood up for America, for all American workers and for all American Business owners when he decided in 2000 that his company was no longer going to participate in the withholding racquet alledged forced and demanded by law from Congress. Dick had spent 6 years researching American history and foundational principles. Ultimately he was spiritually convicted that he had no business being an unpaid bookkeeper for the Federal government, therefore, he had to give his workers 100% of their pay. How American of him! Thank God for Dicks’ courage as it has cost him everything.

Ultimately, Dick was indicted after the government tried three times to no avail. A Grand Jury indicted him in June 2003, he was arrested and the criminal legal battle was on!
We have also been following the case of Dick Simkanin, the owner of Arrow Custom Plastics located in Bedford, Texas, who, in 2000 stopped withholding income related taxes from the paychecks of his employees after receiving no answers from the IRS and his elected representatives to his questions about any law that required him to withhold.

Neither the 2001, nor the 2002 grand juries would indict Simkanin for failure to withhold and turn over the tax. However, after the DOJ prevented Simkanin from appearing before the 2003 grand jury, this grand jury indicted him.
Following a hearing before a Magistrate Judge, Simkanin was released, without bail, on his own recognizance.

Days later, federal district court Judge John McBryde, accepting hearsay over direct evidence, ruled that Simkanin was a flight risk and a threat to society. Judge McBryde overruled the Magistrate Judge, ordering Simkanin jailed pending his trial which is currently scheduled for October 6th. Mr. Simkanin has been a federal prisoner for eleven weeks.

Simkanin’s defense rested on the fact that he has committed no crime, that there is no law that required him to withhold.

We believe this is a very courageous move by Simkanin. We believe he should have beeb acquitted. However, Dick Simkanin wanted the jury to reach the question of his guilt or innocence based on the material question of fact – is there a U.S. law that requires employers to withhold?”

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“New” GOP Website — Failed!

December 29, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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By nighttwister

Jon Stewart takes on the new GOP.com website. He’s always been better when taking on both sides of the aisle as he has been doing recently, and this is a good one.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
You’ve Got Fail
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook

I especially liked the Future Leaders of the Republican Party page. Rather appropriate right now, don’t you think? I like Michael Sandoval’s take on this. You should have consulted the Peoples Press Collective.
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A Decade Of Challenges Yet To Come

December 28, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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As long as you live under my roof, you will follow my rules!

It is a simple principle, perhaps a little harsh, but it can be appropriate in a parent-child relationship.

But when the elected begin to treat the electorate like this, we have a problem. Unlike the parent who is sacrificing to provide for their children and has a natural responsibility to lead them with wisdom and authority into adulthood, our elected officials draw both their power (money) and authority (right to make laws) from the very individuals they propose to rule.

The Declaration of Independence explains:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.

As we move into a new decade I believe we are facing a constitutional crises on par with that faced during the Civil War. In the face of this crisis, the resolve of the American people will determine if we will be ruled or served by our government. And the choice is not as easy or as clear-cut as we might assume.

Congress seems determined to abdicate much of their lawmaking responsibilities to the executive branch. They write massive bills that no one can read or understand, designed primary to institute more government control and leaving the actual rulemaking to the bureaucrats. These 2000 plus page bills, written in concert with the president, must then be interpreted and fleshed out by executive branch regulators, unelected and chosen by the most liberal president in U.S. History. They are more than happy to take on the task.

James Madison, often called the Father of the Constitution, warned us of this very thing, “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

Even now, regulators are scrambling to write new rules related to Obamacare – another law so large and complicated, that according to the New York Times, “executive-branch regulators have wide leeway in determining what the rules should say and how they should be carried out.”

If his goal was a fundamental change of America, the president has been wildly successful so far with the assistance of his lap dogs Reid and Pelosi in Congress.

The next move I expect will be net neutrality, a power grab by the FCC to begin regulating the internet. Touted as needed government over watch, it will insure those evil internet providers provide equal access to everyone. It sounds great. However, as is so often the case, this is just the camel’s nose under the tent. If history holds true, before too long, we will all be sharing our internet tent with a large (and smelly) roommate.

But what harm can it do to reign in the big internet providers a little?

That’s not the point. It’s not the individual regulations that are dangerous, it’s the huge shifting of power to unelected bureaucrats that is scary.

I often write how glad I am to be a Virginian where there is still a modicum of common sense displayed by our state government. So it was no real surprise when I heard that according to the 2010 census, there has been a shifting of the population in the last ten years from liberal states such as Massachusetts and New York to more conservative friendly states such as Texas and Arizona. Others, apparently, are seeking a little common sense too.

Peggy Noonan recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “The biggest threat to America right now is not government spending, huge deficits, foreign ownership of our debt, world terrorism, two wars, potential epidemics or nuts with nukes. The biggest long-term threat is that people are becoming and have become disheartened, that this condition is reaching critical mass, and that it afflicts most broadly and deeply those members of the American leadership class who are not in Washington, most especially those in business.”

Porter Stansberry, an economist and investment advisor calls this the Atlas Shrugged risk, and says, “Most people don’t understand how dangerous a narrow tax base is, especially when those few heavily taxed people have the means to exit.”

So what is the answer? I can tell you what it is not. It is not to give the electoral nod to Republicans and then watch them ignore the Constitution and enact their own brand of expensive, society shaping mandates. Instead we must demand that every law be written in accordance with constitutional principles and justified by a need to support freedom and innovation or to protect the American people.

We must elect representatives willing to govern by these principles, regardless of their party, even if it hurts. Getting our country back on track will not be easy. There are many who have grown accustomed to sucking on the government teat that will loudly complain and call us heartless. Let them. In the long run they will be stronger, the American people will win, and, as history has shown, when we win, the world wins.

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Pilot Under Investigation For Being Critical Of Airport Security

December 27, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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Federal authorities are investigating a pilot who posted videos on YouTube that were critical of security at San Francisco International Airport, the pilot’s attorney said today.

Don Werno of the Santa Ana-based law firm Werno and Associates said the Transportation Security Administration is looking into whether his client revealed sensitive information.

The pilot remains employed with a major airline, but he has withdrawn from a program that trains flight crew to help prevent hijackings after authorities confiscated his federally issued firearm, Werno said. He declined to release the pilot’s name, citing concerns about the man’s job.

The TSA wouldn’t answer questions but said in a statement it is responding to the situation and is confident in the security at San Francisco International Airport.

“As to access control at SFO, TSA is confident in the tools the airport has implemented and reminds passengers there are security measures in place that are both seen and unseen.”

The pilot posted several videos on YouTube in late November or early December that showed ground crew members swiping security cards and entering secure areas without undergoing any screening. He notes in the footage that pilots undergo intense screening, but then have access to ax-like weapons that are stored in the cockpit in case of emergencies.

The sixth and final video was of federal air marshals and sheriff’s deputies who came to the pilot’s home earlier this month to seize his federally issued firearm. The pilot had been allowed to carry the weapon on board as part of a program after 9/11 that trains certain flight crew to serve as “federal flight deck officers” to prevent hijackings.

Werno said his client was upset about what he feels is lax security for ground crew, including baggage handlers and caterers, working at SFO while flight crews and passengers are subject to intense screening.

“The airport should be a security zone where everything that comes into the airport perimeter is checked,” he said.

The pilot removed the videos from YouTube after the TSA objected.

The pilot, a 50-year-old Sacramento-area native, has worked for a major airline for the past 10 years and continues to fly, according to Werno. He has been advised by his airline not to disclose his identity.

In its statement, the TSA said it “responded and took action in this situation because the pilot in question was a FFDO (federal flight deck officer).”

“FFDOs must be able to maintain sensitive security information as a condition of the FFDO program,” the agency said. It did not elaborate.

Werno said that what his client filmed was hardly sensitive and could have been shot by any passenger in a taxiing plane.

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Suspects to be retained indefinitely at Guantanamo?

December 27, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says it’s unfortunate that some terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay need to be held indefinitely without trial.

“Some would be tried in federal courts, as we’ve seen done in the past. Some would be tried in military commissions, likely spending the rest of their lives in a maximum-security prison that nobody, including terrorists, have ever escaped from. Some, regrettably, will have to be indefinitely detained,” Gibbs said in an interview, describing Obama’s beleaguered plan for closing Guantanamo, on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.

The press secretary quickly sought to clarify his comments by adding, “I say ‘regrettably’ not because it’s a bad thing for — necessarily for them in terms of the fact that they’re very dangerous people and we have to make sure that even if we can’t prosecute them, we’re not putting them back out on the battlefield.”

With Obama almost one year overdue on his promise to close Guantanamo, Gibbs offered no prediction that the president’s plan would come to fruition anytime soon. “It’s certainly not going to close in the next month,” Gibbs said. “It’s going to be a while.”

Gibbs’ comments followed an exchange in which CNN’s Candy Crowley suggested the president has the authority to close Guantanamo in spite of not having done so. Gibbs replied by noting that legislation passed by Congress bars bringing Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S. “There are prohibitions, legislatively, on the transfer,” he noted.

Gibbs did not note that all the restrictions were signed into law by Obama, albeit as part of broader legislation. Another measure further limiting Obama’s power to move prisoners out of Guantanamo was passed by Congress last week and is awaiting his signature or veto.

Human rights and civil liberties groups have strongly protested Obama’s plan to continue to detain almost 50 Guantanamo prisoners without charge — which administration officials portray as a necessity due, in part, to aggressive interrogations of prisoners during the Bush era. In addition, some groups that had pushed hard to close Guantanamo have since said they would rather the facility stay open than have prisoners moved to the U.S. for detention without trial.

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Napolitano: Scanners & Pat-Downs Are Here To Stay

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The nation’s controversial airport pat-downs and full-body scanners are here to stay, at least for now.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the systems on CNN this morning, crediting them with preventing unknown numbers of potentially dangerous devices from making their way on to airplanes.

“The new technology, the pat-downs, is just objectively safer for our traveling public,” Napolitano said. “We pick up contraband now, and we pick up more contraband with the new procedures and the new machinery. What we know is that you can’t measure the devices that we are deterring from going on a plane.”

It was a year ago on Christmas when a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was accused of trying to blow up a Northwest flight to Detroit with plastic explosives hidden in his underwear.

Despite concerns among civil libertarians and many travelers subjected to intimate pat-downs, Napolitano said safety is the No. 1 priority.

“Everything is objectively better than it was a year ago, particularly in the aviation environment,” she said.

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Woman With Pacemaker Asks To Be Wanded — Gets Arrested

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by JIM BERGAMO / KVUE News

Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.  The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights.  One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.

Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated.  She says she never broke any laws.  But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.

Hirschkind was hoping to spend Christmas with friends in California, but she never made it past the security checkpoint.

“I can’t go through because I have the equivalent of a pacemaker in me,” she said.

Hirschkind said because of the device in her body, she was led to a female TSA employee and three Austin police officers.  She says she was told she was going to be patted down.

“I turned to the police officer and said, ‘I have given no due cause to give up my constitutional rights.  You can wand me,’” and they said, ‘No, you have to do this,’” she said.

Hirschkind agreed to the pat down, but on one condition.

“I told them, ‘No, I’m not going to have my breasts felt,’ and she said, ’Yes, you are,’” said Hirschkind.

When Hirschkind refused, she says that ”the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me.  I was crying by then.  They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security.”

An ABIA spokesman says it is TSA policy that anyone activating a security alarm has two options.  One is to opt out and not fly, and the other option is to subject themselves to an enhanced pat down.  Hirschkind refused both and was arrested.

Other travelers KVUE talked to say they empathize with Hirschkind, but the law is the law.

“I understand her side of it, and their side as well, but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it,” said Gwen Washington, who lives in Killeen.

“It’s unfortunate that that happened and she didn’t get to fly home, but it makes me feel a little safer,” said Emily Protine.

The TSA did release a statement Wednesday that said in part, “Our officers are trained to treat all passengers with dignity and respect. Security is not optional.”

The TSA says less than three percent of travelers get a pat-down

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