Death by Homeland Security
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 18 years ago, in 2008, on the World Wide Web.
Due to the United States government's immigration and customs Securitate, a 14-day-old baby boy with a serious heart condition, whose life was supposed to have been saved by emergency medical care, is dead.
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa-- American Samoa's delegate to the U.S. Congress is calling for an investigation into the death of a baby at Honolulu International Airport.
Delegate Eni Faleomavaega has asked the Department of Homeland Security to begin an investigation into death of 14-day-old Michael Tony Futi last Friday.
The baby had been flown to Honolulu for emergency heart surgery. He died while detained inside a customs' room at the Honolulu airport with his mother and a nurse.
The family plans to sue the federal government for compensation. They certainly deserve it. But if their case isn't thrown out of court on the excuse of sovereign immunity--which is what will probably happen--then the unaccountable thugs who murdered this family's baby boy still won't pay a damned cent for what they did. What they'll do, public servants that they are, is to help themselves to tax money to cover the pay-out, thus sticking the rest of us, who had nothing to do with their asinine security theater or their callous indifference to human life, with the bill.
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Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-02-22 – Technicalities:
that’s completely fucking disgusting and unconscionable. they brought their baby to the of fucken milk and plenty to be healed and the fuckers killed it. i’m sickened as a mother, as a woman of colour and as a human being, i’m sickened.