Friday - August 18, 2006

Idiots On A Plane

This was in yesterday’s Best Of The Web from James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal. It is quite a revealing look at the dark side of some people on the Left. For those who missed the news, Ms. Mayo was the cause of an airline from London to New York being diverted to Boston on Wednesday. She is a “peace activist”, as described by her son in a recent interview, who spends most of her time overseas. She is also a barking mad loon, as evidenced by her actions on the plane.

Who Is Catherine Mayo?

Passengers on a London-to-Washington flight got quite a scare yesterday, less than a week after the foiling of a massive plot to bomb planes departing from London and the day on which, according to some reports, the plot had been scheduled to be carried out. The Boston Globe reports:

A 59-year-old Vermont woman’s behavior aboard a trans-Atlantic flight triggered a massive security response yesterday, with Air Force F-15 jets escorting the plane to [Boston’s] Logan Airport, where federal agents seized the woman, authorities interrogated passengers, and police dogs sniffed through luggage for explosives.

The woman was found not to be a terrorist threat. . . . The woman, identified by two local security officials as Catherine C. Mayo, will probably be charged today with interfering with a flight crew, authorities said. Mayo’s former husband said she had “emotional issues” and had been on her way home from vacationing in Pakistan. . . .

About an hour into the flight, passengers said in interviews, Mayo began nervously pacing up and down the aisle while wearing an oversized sweatshirt and muttering to herself. At different times, she told passengers that she suffered from claustrophobia and that she was an undercover reporter testing flight security. At one point, Mayo urinated on the floor, passengers said.

Then, Mayo began screaming at flight attendants who were trying to calm her. Two male passengers stepped in, subdued her, and restrained her with handcuffs provided by a flight crew member. The two passengers, a corrections officer and a federal air marshal in training, took the woman to the back of the plane and sat beside her until the plane landed, authorities said. She continued mumbling to herself but seemed calm by the time the plane touched down at Logan, passengers said.

Boston’s WCVB-TV adds some details:

“She showed a lighter and was like, ‘They let me bring this on the plane. I’m a journalist, and I’m going to try to sneak stuff on the plane,’ “ passenger Matthew Bolton said.

That account was unconfirmed by authorities, but NewsCenter 5 learned there was a Catherine Mayo from Vermont who wrote for the Daily Times of Pakistan in 2003. The woman who was arrested is a U.S. citizen, authorities said.

Searching the Pakistan Times Web site, we found five of Mayo’s columns, all from 2003:

• “State of the Union 2003,” Feb. 25
• “The Blue Planet,” March 4
• “Value of Dissent,” March 18
• “Letter to My Granddaughters,” June 24
• “Freedom After 9/11,” July 22

Here’s a sample of her writing, from the first article listed above:

I think the US people have forgotten that President Bush didn’t win the election. He only got the job because they couldn’t decide what to do with pregnant chads in Florida. . . . When President Bush announced that God was telling him to bomb Iraq, my stomach turned over. He has no right to include God in his State of the Union address. It is forbidden by law; the church and state are completely separate in the United States. No politically elected person can use religion for his own ends.

The government of the US has changed in the last few months, and the citizens of the country haven’t noticed yet. It has become an oligarchy. Its leaders rule with a wave of their hands, laughing into their sleeves. They can create any truth they want, and then create proof that it is real. They are accountable to no one. . . .

The people of the US don’t have power anymore. That’s what the Muslim world needs to understand. When President Bush says that he is God, the ordinary people go out and shovel the snow out of their driveways. There is nothing else they can do.

From what we see on some of the blogs, some of the email we get, and even the work of some major newspaper columnists, we’d say quite a few people these days have “emotional issues” that center on politics. Thank goodness most of them manage to control themselves while on airplanes.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/18/2006 at 09:38 AM   
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