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| Whatever happened to “you can’t do this to me. I’m an American”? |
| 2014-03-05 |
| Medea Benjamin was manhandled in Cairo today. “Help,” she Tweeted. “They Broke My Arm. Egypt Police”. They didn’t know who Medea Benjamin was or they didn’t care. Democracy Now reports: U.S. peace activist Medea Benjamin was detained Monday at Cairo’s airport by Egyptian police without explanation. She says she was questioned, held overnight in an airport prison cell and then violently handcuffed by Egyptian officials, who dislocated her shoulder and broke her arm. She was then put on a plane and deported to Turkey, where she is now seeking medical treatment. We speak to her by telephone from the airport medical facility. Benjamin had intended to meet up with international delegates before traveling to Gaza for a women’s conference. ...Too many people frittered away the Design Margin. It was spent and squandered by those both who felt it was immoral to be so rich and while simultaneously convinced these riches were inexhaustible. It happened because too many worked tirelessly to take America down a peg or two, out of spite; and from a sense of unassailable superiority. People who thought it was OK to blow the stash; open the borders; downsize the armed forces. Guys who believed you could churn out paper dollars and issue empty threats ad infinitum. Because like Paul Krugman once said: we can invent an alien invasion from outer space if we need to. And now they find their arms being broken by Cairo police. When and how did Medea Benjamin become a nobody? Maybe it happened this way: when those who dreamed of a weaker, helpless America forgot that in so doing they would also be bringing down themselves. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #17 Ah, Medea - not every place is Berkeley. In fact, not even Berkeley is Berkeley. Which is why you and yours always have your protests in downtown San Francisco where the police are far more patient. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2014-03-05 20:09 |
| #16 It devol into AL BUNDY > "I'M AN AMERICAN - I'M SORRY". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-03-05 19:05 |
| #15 The article is so sad. It almost takes the pleasure out of hearing Miss Benjiman was brutally beaten. Almost. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-03-05 18:58 |
| #14 except for you-know-where Hawaii? Indonesia? Ohhhhhh. Yisrael. Got it... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2014-03-05 18:45 |
| #13 It is time for the Obama administration to embrace reality and do what Putin did long ago and the rest of RussiaÂ’s reluctant neighbors are doing: Make two lists, one of your friends and the other of your enemies; support the first and torment the second. It might be distasteful to some, but it is the real world. There are lists - they just don't cover anything outside national borders (except for you-know-where.) |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-03-05 17:28 |
| #12 Wait, you mean this person exists and wasn't a Tyler Perry skit? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-05 16:40 |
| #11 Lady? Woman? Methings Egypt is getting really tired of terrorists and rabble-rousers. Team Egypt indeed. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-03-05 16:37 |
| #10 The lady's real name is Susan Benjamin not Moira. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-03-05 16:18 |
| #9 She was in Cairo to meet up with an international delegation before traveling to Gaza for a womenÂ’s conference. A women's conference in Gaza. That's about as welcome as Al Sharpton at a KKK conference. Probably a good thing for her she didn't make it to Gaza. They don't care who she is, either. Come to think of it, neither do I. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-03-05 16:18 |
| #8 Whatever happened to “you can’t do this to me. I’m an American”? Among many other things this and this happened. When the world's sole superpower goes mad and turns itself into a finlandized joke there are consequences. For individuals like Mrs Benjamin and for nations like Ukraine. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-03-05 16:16 |
| #7 Let's face it, Medea was born with three strikes given that she was named after a woman who killed her children and fed them to her husband.....unless of course her birth name was Moira and she chose the name Medea.... |
| Posted by: One Eyed Dark Lord of the Mongol Horde5358 2014-03-05 16:16 |
| #6 I forget where and what I read, but it was something about a Tweeting with a broken arm. Police didn't take her tweeter. Perhaps exaggerating a bit? Stomping weasels, throwing diapers in the pin - I think I'm going to place my order for a Team Egypt jersey. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-03-05 16:07 |
| #5 Was she hoping to support a communist government in Egypt? Or perhaps just the most anti-American one she could find? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-03-05 15:32 |
| #4 Yeah, Frank. I'm starting to feel better about Egypt's prospects for the future. Question: does laughing at this make you a bad person? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-03-05 15:31 |
| #3 Medea ought to consider what she votes for when she votes. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-03-05 15:29 |
| #2 Another reason to like Egypt |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-03-05 15:25 |
| #1 They didnÂ’t know who Medea Benjamin was or they didnÂ’t care. Why should they care? I think they did know who she is and that's why she was given the Bum's Rush. She found out she's not a Special Person. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-03-05 14:59 |