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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Ubiquitous" |
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21 Aug 2006 06:34:51 AM |
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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 [1]
"The Blue Planet," March 4 [2]
"Value of Dissent," March 18 [3]
"Letter to My Granddaughters," June 24 [4]
"Freedom After 9/11," July 22 [5]
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.
[1]: http://tinyurl.com/pxsom
[2]: http://tinyurl.com/z29xm
[3]: http://tinyurl.com/qk4an
[4]: http://tinyurl.com/hkmj5
[5]: http://tinyurl.com/jzgty
--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which the
liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn our
military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad for
them, it's failing.
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| User: "z" |
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| Title: Re: Who Is Catherine Mayo? |
21 Aug 2006 09:51:24 AM |
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Ubiquitous wrote:
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 [1]
"The Blue Planet," March 4 [2]
"Value of Dissent," March 18 [3]
"Letter to My Granddaughters," June 24 [4]
"Freedom After 9/11," July 22 [5]
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.
[1]: http://tinyurl.com/pxsom
[2]: http://tinyurl.com/z29xm
[3]: http://tinyurl.com/qk4an
[4]: http://tinyurl.com/hkmj5
[5]: http://tinyurl.com/jzgty
--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which the
liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn our
military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad for
them, it's failing.
"Airport and airline staff and crew, speaking anonymously, described
the measures as "security lunacy", "stupid" and "absurd".
Others accused the government of falling into line behind "American
paranoia". Staff also say the procedures are inconsistent. The
staff's accusations include:
l A pilot having his bag searched but not his laptop carrier;
l A pilot having his mobile and car keys taken away, but later being
given a metal knife and fork to eat with;
l Serious problems with staff ID cards;
l Poor searching on staff transport inside secure areas;
l A steward having her eyeshadow confiscated but not her lipstick;
l Staff being allowed to keep knives in lockers;
l Crew members having one pair of glasses confiscated but not another.
One pilot said that it was "utter morons who think up this *****",
and another asked: "Just where do they get these nut-bags from?"
One pilot pointed out the irony of spectacles being taken away when
they had an axe on the flight deck.
"While my glasses were deemed potentially deadly dangerous items, I
once again took my seat at the controls of 185,000 kilos of aeroplane,
people and fuel and managed to restrain myself from taking the crash
axe to all and sundry prior to rolling, inverted and diving, into the
Channel," he said.
<http://www.sundayherald.com/57460>
2 men forced off plane by passengers
LUTON, England, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- British airline passengers behaved
irrationally when they forced two men to leave a flight, fearing they
might be terrorists, an official in London says.
The men, British citizens reported to be of Asian or Middle Eastern
appearance, were taken off a Monarch Airlines flight from Malaga,
Spain, to Manchester, England, Wednesday after other passengers became
alarmed at their behavior and demanded their removal.
The men wore leather jackets, regularly checked their watches and
appeared to speak an Arabic-sounding language, London's Mail on Sunday
reports.
After the passenger mutiny, the men were peacefully removed, questioned
and released.
The plane departed three hours late. The men spent the night at a hotel
and flew to Manchester the next day.
British homeland security spokesman Patrick Mercer called the incident
"a victory for terrorists," saying the passengers had been "terrorized
into behaving irrationally."
"For those unfortunate two men to be victimized because of the color of
their skin is just nonsense," he said.
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060820-012909-5175r>
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