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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Posted by: Kevin McCullough at 11:20 AM

Since I happen to be mustering at the MuscleHead Studios West this week, I'm in a time zone that is allowing me to get in touch with the left coast and some of its unique struggles...

Like the "Abuela" who decided to send her infant grandson through the baggage security x-ray machine. Even though there were signs everywhere, the Los Angeles Times pointed out the real problem - she just no habla Ingles.

¿No tiene la mujer ningún concepto de necesidad de asimilar a la cultura americana? ¡Y para el amor de Pete con todas las exigencias multilingües tenemos en este estado, California, usted pensaría que alguien habría sido capaz de decir que la mujer, "no fríe profundamente a su nieto!"

¿También me pregunto si ella era ilegal?



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truthbetold writes: Wednesday, December, 20, 2006 12:22 PM
Abuela y niño
The thing that bothers me about this is why are we screening babies and grandmothers and NOT young Muslim males. No grandmothers nor any babies have hi-jacked airplanes and flown them into buildings. Why then are we screening them as if they were terrorists.

The other thing I would like to ask is why didn't any of the security people in the airport not notice what that grandmother was doing and stop her from doing it. If a grandmother is a possible terrorist, she could have been placing a bomb in that bin instead of a baby and blown up an x-ray machine.

I understand the concern that she didn't speak or read English, but I don't know if she was just returning to Mexico after coming here to visit family or if she was living here illegally. If she had just come for a visit, then I think that no one should have expected her to learn English before she came for a visit. If that is a requirement for a visit, then a lot of Americans will have to spend a lot of time learning the language of a country before going there for a visit or they are all a bunch of hypocrites about speaking English in this country.

I wish that more Americans would have a desire to learn another language of their choice and also learn about the culture behind that language. I think that it would enrich their lives and help them to think differently about people in other countries than they might without such study. The liberals in this country want us to more like Europe, but I don't hear them advocating that we learn another language like almost all Europeans do. In fact a lot of Europeans speak 3 or more languages. I think that speaking more languages would help the world's opinion of America if more Americans would have the ability to speak an additional language.
naked pagan writes: Wednesday, December, 20, 2006 1:42 PM
bizarre but not unprecedented
Your also assuming that she could read enough spanish to understand the signs. If she was from one of those back water villiages, its possible she was illiterate as well

The problem is with the security procedures, and the personnel, who appear to have been asleep at the switch.
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