Mother labelled as terrorist for spanking kid

[mercurial]

Reporting from Los Angeles and Oklahoma City -- Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary into her lap.

She spanked each of them on the thigh with three swats. It was a small incident, but one that in the heightened anxiety after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would eventually have enormous ramifications for Freeman and her children.

A flight attendant confronted Freeman, who responded by hurling a few profanities and throwing what remained of a can of tomato juice on the floor.

The incident aboard the Frontier flight ultimately led to Freeman's arrest and conviction for a federal felony defined as an act of terrorism under the Patriot Act, the controversial federal law enacted after the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

"I had no idea I was breaking the law," said Freeman, 40, who spent three months in jail before pleading guilty.

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[Slaine73]

Bloody ridiculous

 

[Surv0]

OMG this is wrong - that flight attendant needs to be approached and smacked in the face. So because the flight attendant didnt like the women, he/she screams terrorism or wateva and the women gets locked up for 3 months.. how to ruin somebodies future because of your stupid feelings...

 

[supersunbird]

Good law, huh Marine1?

 

[chickenbeef]

Just shows, these days people just label whoever they dont agree with as terrorists

 

[semiautomatix]

Hopefully Obama will repeal the Patriot Act as "we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."

 

[semiautomatix]

I think Bin Laden's plan has worked. He has made everyone so paranoid, suspicious and distrusting that the USA is ripping itself apart from the inside.

Jericho, any one?

 

[d0b33]

Damn terrorists, serves them right.

 

[LazyLion]

she shoulda just told the kids to go play outside!