Posted on 08/18/2006 6:49:08 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Described as a “crazy lady” by her own attorney, a Vermont peace activist whose bizarre behavior forced the dramatic landing of a trans-Atlantic plane in Boston Wednesday has serious mental problems and had been vacationing in Pakistan since March.
Wearing a Rolling Stones T-shirt, baggy pants and white socks, a long-haired Catherine C. Mayo, 59, appeared in federal court yesterday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew on United 932 as it flew from London’s Heathrow Airport to Washington, D.C.
If convicted, Mayo faces up to 20 years behind bars.
Her lawyer, Page Kelley, said Mayo has a long history of mental illness. “She has a very serious mental illness. This case is not about terrorism,” Kelley said after court. “As you can see, she’s very agitated.”
Kelley described the plane incident as a “crazy lady with really bad timing.”
A judge ordered Mayo held until a court hearing next Thursday. During that time, she’ll undergo a psychological evaluation.
During the terrifying flight, Mayo made veiled references to al-Qaeda, Pakistan, homemade bombs and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. She was cuffed after urinating on the floor, according to an FBI affidavit released yesterday.
Mayo had arrived Aug. 15 in the United Kingdom from Pakistan, where she’d been since March, her son, Josh, 31, told The Associated Press. Mayo traveled there often since finding a pen pal there before Sept. 11, 2001, the son said. The pen pal hasn’t been allowed to visit the United States, he added.
“I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane, and everybody’s a little paranoid,” he said. Josh Mayo also told WHDH-TV that his mother is a “great mom” and “very supportive.”
“She might have had a stressful time in Pakistan, just getting out of Pakistan combined with a long flight,” he said.
During the flight, the crew enlisted the help of two passengers - a U.S. air marshal and a correction officer - and one of them “had become concerned that she might be acting as a diversion for a possible terrorist action,” the affidavit states. Officials said Mayo has no connection to terrorism.
Mayo told the crew she had been in Pakistan illegally and had “awful” photos “related to the people that she had been with in the mountains of Pakistan.”
In a March 18, 2003, editorial for the Pakistan Daily Times, Mayo wrote that “the folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush. He has hampered the liberties of my country in the name of September 11. Songs now can only talk of patriotism they cannot mention peace.”
Using the old "crazy lady" defense...vy clever.
Yeesh.
typical lawyer lies - just trying to set up this terrorist's defense.
I want to know her involvement/relationship with the pakistani who had the chemicals trying to get on another flight from N.C. (?) how coincidental that both were coming from Pakistan?
A lily white?
Look for Ms. Mayo to be up on the stage next to Cindy Sheehan at the next Moonbatathon.
Loo-loo-koo-koo-noo-noo?
I loved the old Rodney Dangerfield bit:
Psychiatrist: "You're crazy!"
Rodney: "I want a second opinion."
Psychiatrist: "Okay--you're ugly, too!"
I defer to South Park and this quote: "Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."
She's just Howard Dean with breasts. And by the pictures I've seen, she's just another greasy, butt ugly liberal looking for attention. Guarantee you that she doesn't shave her armpits.
And a shining example of the alliance between the Left here and our enemies abroad.
I knew she was mentally ill when I found out she flew over to Pakistan to meet someone she met online.
"the folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush"
Hallelujah!
Who knows what crazy people will do? This one ended up just dropping trou and taking a leak on the floor of the plane.
Showing the many guises of Terrorism, insanity being one of them. She put an entire jet at risk with her activist agitations, caused baggage to be unloaded, caused many to miss their connections all costing $$$$ and she was just agitated?
This sorry piece of anti-Americanism should pay a stiff fine and spend 20 years in jail and never ever allowed to board an airline again.
You got it. Nothing to see here but a moonbat so let's move along until the next moonbat terrorrist sympathizer actually pulls it off.
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