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Penn State Professor Arrested For Ranting and Yelling About “U.S Imperialism”
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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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: academicbias; karenhalnon; liberal; pennstate; pennsylvania; professor
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To: outpostinmass2

Another academic gone over the edge. Her head hes become so full of liberal crap it finally exploded. And folks these are the people supposedly educating our children. There are more!


41 posted on 03/17/2015 9:26:28 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Reagan said, "Government is the problem.")
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To: bmwcyle

Indeed.


42 posted on 03/17/2015 9:27:01 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: outpostinmass2

43 posted on 03/17/2015 9:29:18 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: outpostinmass2

The Regime and the Press: “We’ve succeeded!! -Full steam ahead!”


44 posted on 03/17/2015 9:29:31 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: chris37

From ‘Rate my Professor’ about one of her classes:

“She gave us a weird assignment, to go out in public and act white for 30 minutes. We are confused. No other directions given. I am wondering how to do it but am intrigued.”

It literally makes me sick to my stomach that these are the people who have access to our kids - and we are paying her salary.


45 posted on 03/17/2015 9:29:39 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: outpostinmass2

Title - Freedom of speech?

Story - Lucky she didn’t get held down and duct taped to her chair with an air marshal sitting next to her.

They don’t match


46 posted on 03/17/2015 9:29:50 AM PDT by Domandred (Tea Party or Third Party. Done with the capitulating eGOP.)
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To: outpostinmass2

Her FB page.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1185146436&fref=ts

Yep - she’s nuts.

Her groups include Israel Deceits and Lies, Americans Against Genocide in Gaza, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes.

Trifecta.


47 posted on 03/17/2015 9:31:49 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Baltimore ken

“...this twit is a registered DEMOCRAT...”

You’d probably be pretty safe in that bet. However, this one sounds pure CPUSA through and through as well. As if there were any difference anymore.


48 posted on 03/17/2015 9:32:32 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: vette6387

“...in post WWII ...”

There’s the rub, too.

My father and uncles fought in WWII to stop European fascism, socialism, and Japanese aggression.

All the while the first two were being imported here, while we were over there.

So did we really win WWII, is the question; or was it merely slowing down the disease...


49 posted on 03/17/2015 9:35:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Doogle
Gilltea! What has been seen photo: What Has Been Seen, Cannot Be Unseen 2 WhatHasBeenSeenCannotBeUnseen-1.jpg
50 posted on 03/17/2015 9:35:31 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: outpostinmass2

Pictures of the creature and an interview with her here:

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/03/17/karen-halnon-penn-state-abington-smoking-on-plane-venezuela/

The interview is entertaining reading for anyone who is trying to work out just what the hell is the matter with spoiled-child Liberals.


51 posted on 03/17/2015 9:37:02 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: outpostinmass2

These are the fools teaching our kids too.


52 posted on 03/17/2015 9:37:24 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: outpostinmass2
I don't recall seeing university sociology professors on Homeland Security's list of potential domestic terrorists.

-PJ

53 posted on 03/17/2015 9:37:43 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: vette6387

She’s a “JV” professor at Abington branch campus 200 miles from University Park. But please don’t let any facts get in the way of your bigotry.


54 posted on 03/17/2015 9:37:47 AM PDT by FredZarguna ("He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: outpostinmass2
The author of the sourced article offers what I regard as a splendid solution to such incidents:

New punishment idea for these people: bring the plane to a lower altitude, have everyone buckle their seat belts, open up the emergency door and toss the bitch out into the ocean. Problem solved. See how many revolutionaries and look-at-me assholes we have ruining everybody’s flights after that. Seriously what is the point of this? What do you really hope to accomplish? You’re not in front of the White House, you’re not on the steps of the UN, you’re not at some packed political conference making a big statement. You’re on a plane at 40,000 feet full of some people just trying to go on vacation or visit their families. Nobody gives a fsck about what you have to say, they just want to get from point A to point B without a major incident. Like a psycho Penn State professor screaming in their ear holes about US imperialism and global domination then ripping a heater right in their face.

I completely approve of this idea.

55 posted on 03/17/2015 9:40:17 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: outpostinmass2

Liberals are idiots. It is what causes them to believe in things like being a Nazi or a Communist.


56 posted on 03/17/2015 9:40:36 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: FredZarguna

“She’s a “JV” professor at Abington branch campus 200 miles from University Park. But please don’t let any facts get in the way of your bigotry.”

Bigotry? Just what is “bigoted” about wanting that $hit hole gone? It heads my list of “schools” that need to be closed. My alma mater, UC Berkeley is next.


57 posted on 03/17/2015 9:51:06 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Da Coyote
Penn State Abington sociology professor Dr. Karen Halnon

I was betting on her being a psychology prof, but sociology is a close second for a high nut-ball quotient.

58 posted on 03/17/2015 9:56:42 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: VanDeKoik

If you listen closely, she herself said they told her she would be arrested when the plane landed. That seemed to be before her other behavior. That is pretty much what the headline said.

Granted she did more after, which also contributed.


59 posted on 03/17/2015 10:19:43 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: Moonman62

That right there will get you kicked out of every k-12th grade school in the United States.

It’s evidently reason enough to tenure someone at the university level.


60 posted on 03/17/2015 10:22:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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