Why is there so much silence re the Air Force Veteran's

[malaise]

bomb threat on that Delta flight which was diverted to Maine yesterday?
OK his name is Derek Stansberry and he sounds like one more PTSD victim. The Diplomat from Qatar who was merely smoking in a bathroom received way more coverage from M$Greedia.


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http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12388918
It was a mid-air bomb scare on a Delta flight from Paris to Atlanta. An air force veteran is in custody this morning, blamed for making a frightening claim that forced officials to divert the flight to Bangor, Maine.

Delta Flight 273 landed more than a thousand miles short of its destination.

The man in custody is Derek Stansberry, 26, who is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Officials say Stansberry passed a note to a flight attendant. A team of federal air marshals approached Stansberry who they say told them he had explosives in his bag and a fake passport.

The air marshals brought his bag and shoes to the back of the plane and built a barrier of pillows and blankets to buffer any possible explosion.

After the plane landed, investigators didn't find any explosives and Stansberry's passport was not fake.

Officials say Stansberry told them he had taken valium and other pills before the flight.

[barbtries]

1. mmmm...

i was going to immediately say, because he's a white american? but i can't find a picture that i know for sure is the same guy. this appears to be a pretty cut and dried case of making a terrorist threat. happily it was a baseless threat. the diplomat from qatar just wanted a smoke right?

i don't know. good question.

[malaise]

3. He is white

and I had the same thought.

[Mojeoux]

10. I don't think he is.

I think this is more about not understanding and acknowledging the PTSD.

[ejpoeta]

2. because they might have to explore the effects of repeated deployments to war zones

on people and we wouldn't want to do that.

[barbtries]

4. that's for sure

we're destroying more than the other side :cry:

[malaise]

5. He also told them he had dynamite in his boots

Why hasn't he been sent to Gitmo - he's way too dangerous for an American jail! Where is the outcry? Where is Cheney and his disgusting daughter.


Richard Stansberry, father of Derek Stansberry, spoke to the media, stating he was perplexed by the incident and Derek had lived a "squeaky clean life," per the AP.

The elder Stansberry also said:

"Regardless of what was said on a plane, the safety of the passengers come first. Hopefully, everything will get ironed out and he'll get to come home. He is a good boy."

Derek Stansberry allegedly claimed he had explosives in his luggage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/28/derek-stansberry-delta-fl_n_555178.html

[barbtries]

6. silence on DU even...

[malaise]

7. Stunning silence everywhere

Derek Stansberry's photo on the video here

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/flight-bomb-scare-delta-flight-273-diverted-maine/story?id=10490282

[UTUSN]

8. I'll K&R #1 this!1 n/t

[TexasObserver]

9. War vet has drug and PTSD induced psychotic episode.

That's the story that appears to be.

He wigged out.

[Octafish]

11. You ask a most important question, malaise.

Corporate McPravda serves to advance the cause of the priveleged few, the ones who gain from permanent war. They provide sideshows to distract and misinformaton to confuse. Likewise, they have a nefarious reason when ignoring a story. Here, I imaginek, it's to keep the average Murkin from having to think about how the wars are really screwing up good people's heads. That, and the fact we've been at war with Eastasia, Eurasia and Whateverbrownskinstan longer than it took to win World War II.

PS: The veteran's got a lot of their greed rattling around right now. He needs help more than prosecution.

[howaboutme]

12. very well stated

The corporate media is more about perpetuating an agenda than serving as the fourth estate which is the guardian of public interest and watchdog of government. It serves its own interests and not as a check and balance for the public, and we Americans and others much understand the difference is not subtle at all.

[malaise]

13. Well said but the war also screwed up that other Veteran who

murdered several of his own colleagues at Ft. Hood.

[Bonobo]

14. Ambien. nt

[Soylent Brice]

15. K&R