I wonder if she's related to this other liberal, the Austin DA.
Posted on 03/17/2015 8:51:15 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Pennsylvania woman was arrested at Miami International Airport for allegedly being disorderly on a flight and not complying with the flight crew, according to a police report.
Karen Halnon, 52, was on an American Airlines flight headed from Managua, Nicaragua to Miami on Saturday.
Officials and passengers said Halnon, a Penn State University professor, started ranting about halfway through her two and a half hour flight.
“The United States has declared war on Venezuela! The United States has declared war on Venezuela!” the woman repeatedly said, according to iPhone footage shot by a fellow passenger. “Venezuela has been declared an international security threat!”
The video also showed the woman lighting up a cigarette and trying to blame another passenger.
Reached by phone Monday night, Halnon told NBC 6 she was “protesting U.S. military global domination, U.S. imperialism.”
Halnon, who described herself as a revolutionary, said she didn’t mean any harm and said the cigarette was a joke.
“That was more in jest, every good revolutionary smokes,” she said. “You have to have a sense of humor when you’re in this kind of situation.
Police said when the plane landed and an officer approached her, she was asked to stop yelling but refused. She was asked to exit the plane but replied, “(Expletive) you. This is not a democracy.”
Halnon reportedly refused to calm down and was escorted off the plane where she was later arrested for disorderly conduct. She was taken to Miami’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Halnon said she was questioned by the FBI and was mistreated.
That title totally matches the story. /s
Was liquor involved?
The headline was too long.
Penn State Professor Arrested For Ranting and Yelling About “U.S Imperialism” In The Middle Of Flight To Miami
Of course, turns out she's somewhere left of Stalin, but I don't think that fact will merit any retractions.
Well....she was tenured. I’ll bet the chancellor has a meeting and she’s offered a weekend to come up with a simple resignation, and they will pay her around $150,000 to just walk out the door. Once word gets out with students...who will want to sit through one of her classes? If I were a parent of a kid there....I’d be yanking on the college’s leadership to dump her.
A good friend of mine was imprisoned in Managua, Nicaragua for 10 years. A “political” prisoner. He got off easy. His brother, two sisters, and his dad were murdered by the communists.
A university professor who is a self professed revolutionary. What a shock!
“who will want to sit through one of her classes?”
Every student at the university and then some.
She sounds JUST LIKE every professor I had back in the 70’s.
Wow...the same language and behavior, too!
Some things never change. :)
Only because she's way left of Obama.
I am totally sick of these people. I hope the other passengers beat the living crap out of her Why is it that we never seem to run out of these azzholes?
“...Good News Penn State Students….She’s Tenured...”
Bad News, Penn State Parents... your kids are being indoctrinated by a deranged psychopath, and you’re PAYING for it...
Typical tenured professor: leftist, loony, lonely.
Bad News, Penn State Parents... your kids are being indoctrinated by a deranged psychopath, and you’re PAYING for it...
Crazy professors populated college when I attended back in the 80’s. I don’t know anyone who was indoctrinated by these loons and if so then you either failed as a parent or your child is a fool.
Even in Pennsylvania you can find nut bag professors. No college is without them.
Land of Michael Mann
Looks like the liberal brain worm that has been burrowing and growing in her brain finally woke up and drove her INSANE!
Was she drunk?
I wonder if she's related to this other liberal, the Austin DA.
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