Refugee's Suicide Attempt Diverts Flight

[Eugene]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601807.html

Refugee's Suicide Attempt Diverts Flight

The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; 9:54 PM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Hurricane Katrina refugee on Tuesday attempted
suicide aboard a commercial flight bound for Washington, D.C., causing
the plane to be diverted.

United Express flight 7565 originated in Houston and was bound for
Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.


The passenger who attempted suicide was removed from the aircraft and
taken to a hospital, said Lynne Lowrance, spokeswoman for the
Metropolitan Nashville International Airport Authority.

Airport officials referred questions about the incident to the
Transportation Security Administration, which reported a male passenger
cut his wrists with a small razor blade.

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[skooooo]

1. jesus the country's falling apart

[Obamarama]

2. I suppose Santorum will want to prosecute him and send him the bill.

[liberalnurse]

3. Wait a minute.....

They are NOT refugee's....they are victims.

Now, that said......PTS is probably the problem.

[FtWayneBlue]

7. PBS has been calling them evacuees. Much more appropriate.

The connotation of Refugee is someone who leaves one country to take refuge or political asylum in another country.
Oprah made it a point today to call them evacuees or victims, specifically stating that they were not refugees.

[MadisonProgressive]

9. What if you're going from Jesusland to the USA?

[northzax]

13. to me the connotation of 'refugee'

is someone forced from their home, especially from war or natural disaster and forced to seek shelter somewhere else. I think 'refugee' is applicable here, frankly, it's not a pejorative, but it does, in fact, connote that their government refuses to help them where they were.

don't buy into the Government not wanting you to use 'refugee' someone who, because of government action or inaction, who is forced to seek shelter somewhere else is a refugee. Government actions/inactions contributed to their need to leave, it's an acceptable term.

it's only pejorative because people think of poor, non-whites in this situation.

[FormerRepublican]

4. This is, unfortunately, a sad consequence of traumatic experience.

A lot of these folks will end up the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Depression and Suicidality is part of that.

[Judi Lynn]

5. So, so sad.

How many DU'ers have heard drooling idiots make the claim about the early American people wanted as slaves stolen from the homeland they knew, and taken from their families, friends, and brought to a world where they were unloved, and abused, where they knew they would never escape, ever again, and see the faces of their loved ones:

They had it so much better here, getting 3 squares a day, having a roof over their heads, than they did before.

MEpublicans, put yourselves in their shoes. How on earth would you feel if this happened to you? "Morans, get a brain."

[iamahaingttta]

6. Oh, my goddess!

There is going to be so much more of this kind of thing to come.

This is so, so bad...

[NNN0LHI]

8. These poor people are all suffering from some level of PTSD

You can see it in their eyes when they are being interviewed. They look like they are in shock to me. I am no doctor.

Don

[krkaufman]

10. Ummm.... he had razor blades?.... on a plane...?

Calling Homeland Security... calling Homeland Security...

[rainbow4321]

12. Somone in Homeland signed a waiver..airport was backed up

Per news, passengers were so backed up at the NO airport, that someone at Homeland signed a waiver to allow for manual searchs and not the normal machine-run security...first they couldn't GET the machines and then once they got there they could not get them to work. They had to sign a waiver cuz it was a post-9/11 law that involved the machine security being mandatory.

Now having said that...here is this article, saying that flight originated in Houston and not NO.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8CF401O0.html

Capt. Robin Celatka of the 118th Airlift Wing of the Tennessee Air National Guard said the flight had eight evacuees on board, along with an unknown number of commercial passengers. She had no details about the suicide attempt.

United Express flight 7565 originated in Houston and was bound for Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia but landed at the Air National Guard facility

Officials said at the pilot's request the airplane was moved to the airport terminal where all the passengers underwent a second security screening.

Airport officials referred questions about the incident to the Transportation Security Administration, which reported a male passenger cut his wrists with a small razor blade. More details were not available Tuesday evening.

[journalist3072]

11. So sad, these people are really hurting..

CNN carried a story yesterday of an elderly woman who said she had stopped taking her blood-thinners, because she was almost hoping to die of a blood clot, so she could be put out of her misery! :(

http://progressiveminds.bloghi.com/2005/09/05/praying-for-a-blood-clot.html