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Title: Breastfeeding Viewed as Potential Terrorist Activity by New York Country Club
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Published: Jul 6, 2013
Author: Sarah
Post Date: 2013-07-06 20:25:40 by farmfriend
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on July 1, 2013 When ignorance about breastfeeding coincides with an irrational fear of terrorists, what do you get? A very nasty scene at a ritzy New York Country Club, that’s what! This is exactly what Belgian diplomat Tom Neijens and his wife Roseline Remans discovered when they stopped by the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, New York on June 8, 2013 and inquired about having lunch. Club employees permitted the family to dine on the terrace despite the fact that they weren’t members, whereupon Remans began to discreetly breastfeed her daughter Luka at the table. Neijens, first secretary of the Belgium Mission to the UN, told the New York Post that a female employee of the club quickly interrupted Roseline’s perfectly legal and proper feeding of her baby with this sharp rebuke: When Neijens protested and said it would only take a few minutes, the female staffer insisted that Remans finish in the restroom. Understandably incredulous at the blatant ignorance on display at such a high end establishment, Mr. Neijens inquired why a baby would be asked to have lunch in the restroom when adults are not. The Greenburgh Police Department arrived minutes later with Detective Scott Harding apparently yelling, “Close the doors!” with two other diners ordered to leave the terrace. Mr. Neijens described the chaotic scene as something straight out of a Western movie with the officer walking around like John Wayne with “one hand on his gun, one hand on his Taser.” The officer warned the couple that they were trespassing despite the fact that country club staff had given them specific permission to dine. He also said that some fearful members thought Mr. Neijens’ black backpack indicated they were terrorists. Most laughable if not actually true, is what the officer came out with next when a tearful Ms. Remans asked why terrorists would breastfeed at a ritzy club: Well, you learn something new every day, don’t you? Attention all breastfeeding mothers. Your milk engorged breasts are actually considered weapons of mass destruction by law enforcement authorities. That liquid is NOT food for your baby. It is actually highly explosive material that could detonate at any time, sparking a chain of events identified by the media as bona fide terrorist activity. Detective Harding quickly backed off his ridiculous posturing when Mr. Neijens revealed his State Department issued identification. He dismissed his over the top behavior by explaining that the club had received terrorist threats in the past. Despite the fact that they were doing nothing illegal or improper and possessed proper identification, the couple was still escorted off the premises via the back door. A few days later, Mr Neijens sent an e-mail demanding an apology from Country Club general manager Tracy Fraus and assistant general manager Audra Vaccari. “I am deeply worried about your staff if they cannot distinguish between a European couple looking for a quiet place to breast-feed a baby and suicide terrorists carrying a backpack.” Lt. B.J. Ryan, a spokesman for the Greenburgh Police Department, labeled the incident as a simple “cultural misunderstanding.” Ahem. On behalf of breastfeeding mothers everywhere, I beg to differ. Breasts are not “cultural” and there is no “misunderstanding” their true purpose. They are the universal instrument for optimal feeding of babies. Not “boob grenades”. Hard to believe the terrorism handbook didn’t cover this point properly. Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist Breastfeeding Viewed as Potential Terrorist Activity by New York Country Club
“Please leave immediately, you are disturbing the members!”
“In Sri Lanka, babies are used by terrorists.”
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
“In Sri Lanka, babies are used by terrorists.” The 25 Rules of Disinformation 18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”.
I smell the handiwork of the SPLC/AIPAC/ADL. Most laughable if not actually true, is what the officer came out with next when a tearful Ms. Remans asked why terrorists would breastfeed at a ritzy club:
#2. To: farmfriend (#0)
“In Sri Lanka, babies are used by terrorists.”
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
Ya think? Whether it is just by their scare mongering and hate filled diatribes against those who do not follow der Party Lyin' those you mention have certainly helped created the atmosphere of fear and distrust. After all it is their stock in trade.
#4. To: farmfriend (#0)
As insane as it sounds, a colleague of mine recently deployed to Afghanistan, and his security briefing including some scare mongering about women who have breast implants that would explode. He didn't believe me when I said that was just to keep everyone from partaking of the local female population rather than any real threat. He said they were saying there was a real threat. But if you're in a country that uses the burka, exactly how could two 1000cc implants be better than just wearing a damned vest under the thing with POUNDS of explosives instead? Uses limited resources to perform complex surgery is always less effective than just using conventional methods to kill people. Colin Powell's speech at the UN talked about how that vial could kill hundreds, but that was under perfect conditions. I can guarantee that I could kill many times more people using a collection of people perfectly arrayed and a lone 155mm artillery shell than any chemical weapon could. The key is that they all have to acquire the precise dosage- not too little, not too much. The possibility of that with a chemical or biological weapon is nearly non- existent. But if I used the same resources that cult that attacked the Japanese subway with a decade or so ago, and instead bought conventional explosives, rather than killing no one, that attack would have likely put that subway station in space.
“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” Murray N. Rothbard
#5. To: farmfriend (#0)
WTF! have we lost our collective senses? Boob-bombs?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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