THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: benjipwns on March 17, 2015, 09:26:57 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfyekgkpB5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX9Czx0sbf4
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/professor-arrested-ranting-smoking-airplane-article-1.2151812 (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/professor-arrested-ranting-smoking-airplane-article-1.2151812)
A Pennsylvania college professor got arrested for launching into a recorded rant about U.S. relations with Venezuela halfway through a flight from Latin America.
“The United States has declared war on Venezuela! The United States has declared war on Venezuela! Venezuela has been declared a national security threat!” Penn State-Abington professor Karen Halnon yells in one clip that went viral.
The sociology prof, who also lit a cigarette on the plane, was unapologetic about the uproar when speaking with the Daily News.
“I found it urgent to speak up against the aggression in Venezuela,” said Halnon, 52.
“If you have to shake up a few people, they need to be shaken up.”
Halnon started shouting in the middle of a 2 1/2-hour flight from Managua, Nicaragua, to Miami, Fla., on Saturday, the Miami New Times reported.
One passenger filmed the impromptu lecture on a phone.
“My great hero, Hugo Chavez, nationalized the oil supply so that the people would own the oil," she shouts. "Not ExxonMobil. Tell ExxonMobil to go away.”
Another video from the same passenger shows Halnon lighting a cigarette in her seat and taking a few puffs, which is not allowed on airlines.
Halnon told the Daily News her illegal light was meant to be “a symbol for a smoking gun,” and also a way to show her affinity with tobacco-loving “revolutionaries” like Fidel Castro.
“I know that might sound somewhat esoteric to other people, but I’m an intellectual, so that’s what I intended,” she said.
She said she was returning from a research trip to Nicaragua, and suddenly spoke up on the plane because she was outraged by President Obama's executive order last week ordering sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials for human rights violations.
When asked about the possibility of scaring her fellow passengers with her outburst, she said, “I had on my mind to convey the urgency of the situation.
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=34465 (http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=34465)
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.
Today's class circle discussion about Paulo Freire's Pedogogy of the Oppressed evolved into a class long dialogue about the meaning of what it means to be a human being. to be the ultimate ontological being, species being, It was the best class in my life. One class, one modesthumblebrilliant prof leading inspiring the pack. She is a diamond!!!
Great teacher but she tends to lose it on airplanes.
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If I ever get caught doing shit I'm going to pull this.
I knew she was underage. America has declared war on Iran and I did it to show my affinity with child-loving revolutionary Mohomed. I know that might sound somewhat esoteric to other people, but I’m an intellectual, so that’s what I intended.
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Make this dork read my internet output. :pimp
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Posting about commies on the internet does not give you the right to smoke on a plane. A graduate degree does.
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Make this dork read my internet output. :pimp
What do you think made her go off like that? I'm fairly certain she already has
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I’m an intellectual
obviously
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get your people Kara