Watch This Penn State Sociology Professor SCREECH on a Plane About ‘U.S. Imperialism’ in Venezuela
My fellow Americans, this is the kind of depraved stupidity that we place in charge of our children’s heads full of mush when we send them to institutions of supposedly higher learning. Penn State Abington sociology professor Dr. Karen Halnon was arrested for lighting up a cigarette on an airplane and then going on a rant about how the United States is declaring war on Venezuela in order to steal their oil.
It’s pretty fabulous:
And, “the United States have declared war on Venezuela!”
Now, Venezuela is collapsing economically and people are standing in lines for just the opportunity to buy food. Dissidents are being shot in the streets, but this idiot is going on about her hero Hugo Chavez.
What’s even more wonderful is that she gave an interview to PhillyMag explaining further what a complete moron she is:
Can you comment on your arrest and on the videos of you on the plane that are circulating?
I do have a comment. I know that I expressed an act of civil disobedience. But that act was necessary.
Why so?
I’m very knowledgable about that part of the world. I teach about U.S. imperialism in Latin America. And the U.S. has declared war against Venezuela. That means military aggression. They tried to take out Hugo with a coup, and then they took him out with cancer.
Oh?
It is my opinion — and Fidel agrees with me …
As in Castro?
Yes, Fidel agrees with me that the CIA had some involvement in giving him cancer, and so he died very sadly. And now Nicolas Maduro is the president and the U.S. somehow thinks this is a better position for the U.S. now.
You would think that if the CIA had the capability to give Hugo cancer they would have done it 40 years ago, or just killed him outright, but conspiracy theories are much more entertaining when they make no sense.
The problem is U.S. military global domination. And they want the oil. And they want the water. And so I found that this act was a necessary Thoreau-like act of civil disobedience. I had to speak out now. The situation is dire and urgent, and any sacrifice I make for my own self, if it saves lives — there have been far too many lives lost due to U.S. global military domination.
But it gets better – this commie who believes in big government totalitarianism is actually complaining about… government totalitarianism:
The FBI and TSA tortured me. My voice generally doesn’t sound like this. I was put in a room with two fans in the ceiling, it was freezing cold for hours and hours and hours. I asked repeatedly to go to the bathroom. They made me wet my pants. They humiliated me. And then to make matters worse, I have a stomach condition. Everything that comes in goes out. I’ve been like that for months since I left Cuba. I’ve lost over 30 pounds. And I was yelling that I had to go to the bathroom. But they ignored me, and I defecated on the floor. And they made me pick it up and laughed at me.
That’s awful. But what of the cigarette? One reporter who covered your actions said that lighting a cigarette on a plane is just a little better than yelling “BOMB!”
Why did I have a lighter if there is such great national security? It was right in the top of my book bag.
Listen, the point is, I am a sociologist, and I live in an intellectual world. A sociologist always thinks in terms of symbols. And every revolutionary I know smokes. It was identifying with the revolutionary cause. And then, beyond that, it is a symbol that the United States is a smoking gun. The action was necessary. They are going to kill many more people.
She lives in an intellectual world! Unfortunately she won’t be able to join us in the real world after the TSA puts her on a no-fly list. She smokes just because every other revolutionary smokes? What a free-thinker!
Some people would look at that video and wonder if you were under the influence of a substance. And I know you pleaded guilty in 2013 in Horsham Township to public drunkenness. Do you have a substance abuse issue?
No. I do not have a substance abuse issue. I have had many sufferings in my life, but no. I had a little bottle of wine on the plane that I mixed with apple and cranberry juice over three drinks. A spritzer, if you will. But I wasn’t drunk. I don’t need alcohol to protest. This is my life.
I am passionate about being an anti-imperialist. To follow Jesus is to be with the poor, to be with the suffering, to be with the oppressed, and to be anti-imperialist.
I’m pretty sure Jesus didn’t advocate getting drunk on a plane and advocating for totalitarian dictators, but what do I know? I’m not a sociologist, I live in the real world.
This is really a banner week for sociologists:
If you're wondering what job your daughter is qualified for with a double major in sociology and literature… pic.twitter.com/E4VB0h46Zb
— el Sooper ن (@SooperMexican) March 14, 2015
