*Carol Anne Gotbaum did not strangle herself with the handcuffs that were used to restrain her.

Thus it follows that the Phoenix Police Department, which claimed that the tiny, 45-year-old mother of three small children somehow choked herself on the cuffs, is concealing the truth about what killed her.

Mrs. Gotbaum, who was on mood stabilizing drugs (which she hadn’t taken that morning), was detained at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport en route to a very expensive alcohol rehabilitation clinic in Tucson.

Her family contact hadn’t met her there, as he was supposed to, which didn’t improve her mood. She had been singled out by the TSA groper squad for individualized molestation, which likewise helped to undermine her serenity. Carol Anne had reportedly attempted suicide in New York a year ago, which suggests that she was severely troubled and desperately seeking help.

By the time the police arrived, Gotbaum was in the middle of a full-orbed breakdown.

“They’re not letting me on!” she exclaimed in a cellphone call to her husband Noah just before her arrest. “It’s all falling apart.” Noah called US Airways officials to plead on behalf of her wife: “It will be okay. She just needs to take her medication.”

It was clearly a medical crisis, not a security issue. But those running the Homeland Security State in which we’ve been sentenced to live insist on treating those situations identically….”

More at William Grigg at Pro Libertate.