OK - I just had to check the DUmpster:
meisje (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-17-06 04:38 PM
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9. She's clearly a republican plant to make the peace movement look bad
LOL! I needed a good chuckle!
Will Savage tell us tonight that, "liberalism is a mental disorder."
"of Braintree, Vt"
This fruit fell pretty far from THAT tree.
One of Cindy Sheehan's hags, no doubt. Guess Sheehan didn't have room for Mayo at her new Texas digs.
"Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been in Pakistan since March. She traveled there often since making a pen pal prior to Sept. 11, 2001, he said. The pen pal hasn't been allowed to visit the U.S., he added."
The truth is stranger than fiction.
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but if all this were true - and I have my doubts - why the hell was she allowed on the plane in the first place?? Are we expected to believe a person in this state would have been perfectly lucid before boarding and then POOF...Bananasville?
One witness account I read said that, in addition to uncountable trips to the bathroom, she once "pulled down her knickers and squatted down" apparently in the aisle.
Between this and the mentally ill man who was shot dead by air marshals in Florida, I think it's past time to add to the list of screening questions that passengers are asked: Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental illness? A yes answer should be grounds for diversion to an area for more intensive search of bags and person, and further questioning and perhaps phone calls to try to verify whether serious instability is likely. The people should not necessarily be prevented from boarding planes, but they and their seat locations should certainly be identified to the flight crew and any air marshals in advance of boarding, so that the mental illness factor can guide the response to any bizarre behavior.
It really wasn't necessary to call out the F-15s, divert the flight, and grill and re-search all the other passengers on this flight, but without advance notice of whether this lady was really mentally ill, or staging a deliberate distraction to aid fellow terrorists on board, she had to be treated as a terrorist threat. And of course, people could lie, but at least the process would provide some legal leverage, both to protect air marshals and others who take forcible (even lethal) action against a mentally ill passenger who is causing a disturbance, and for a court to classify the person as mentally incompetent and appoint a guardian and ban the person from air travel without special provisions and an accompanying caretaker.
Bush Derangement Syndrome.
I didn't read through all of the conjecturing posts, but my money is on it being Theresa Heinz-Kerry. ;)
Peace activist, raving lunatic, same dif.
Islam does that to people.
Fyi, another twist to the story.