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2003-05-13
A Weapon of Mass Distraction?
SF Indymedia reports on a story from the Montreal Gazette—a story apparently no longer available on the Web—"Nursing Canadian Mom Threatened with Terrorist Charge Against US Citizen:"
Deborah Wolfe, a Canadian citizen who was just breast-feeding her son and changing his diaper while en route between Houston and Vancouver, says her "subversive" actions led to her being threatened with detainment, RCMP involvement and legal charges for terrorist action against a U.S. citizen in international airspace while on an American flight during a time of war. This is the most bizarre breast-feeding incident since Jacqueline Mercado and her boyfriend, Johnny Fernandez, lost custody of their two children for photographing Jacqueline in the act of suckling one of them, one-year old Rodrigo. According to the Dallas Observer, the two were
indicted for "sexual performance of a child" (though the case was later dropped by Dallas County prosecutors), and Child Protective Services took away their two children and ordered all sorts of onerous counseling and tests. I must admit that, like the writer, I sympathize with the State agency, and, also like the writer, think a simple apology would probably do wonders.
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