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In-flight confrontations can lead to charges defined as terrorism

LA Times
January 20, 2009

Tamera Jo Freeman lost custody of her children after an incident on a Frontier Airlines flight. "A woman spanking her child is not as great a threat to aviation as members of Al Qaeda with box cutters," says one expert.

At least 200 passengers have been convicted of felonies under the Patriot Act, often for behavior involving raised voices and profanity. Some experts say airlines are misusing the law.

Reporting from Los Angeles and Oklahoma City -- Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary into her lap.

She spanked each of them on the thigh with three swats. It was a small incident, but one that in the heightened anxiety after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would eventually have enormous ramifications for Freeman and her children.

A flight attendant confronted Freeman, who responded by hurling a few profanities and throwing what remained of a can of tomato juice on the floor.

The incident aboard the Frontier flight ultimately led to Freeman's arrest and conviction for a federal felony defined as an act of terrorism under the Patriot Act, the controversial federal law enacted after the 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

"I had no idea I was breaking the law," said Freeman, 40, who spent three months in jail before pleading guilty.

Freeman is one of at least 200 people on flights who have been convicted under the amended law. In most of the cases, there was no evidence that the passengers had attempted to hijack the airplane or physically attack any of the flight crew. Many have simply involved raised voices, foul language and drunken behavior.

But at least one passenger, John Carlson, a defense attorney who was seated near Freeman, said there was no threat. "There was a nasty, loud exchange," Carlson said. Then Freeman "capitulated and offered no resistance. My sympathy shifted to her."

After three months in jail, Freeman agreed to plead guilty in exchange for being released on probation. A court-appointed attorney told her that a plea deal would be the fastest way to see her children, who had been taken back to Hawaii and put into foster care.

Her probation required her to stay in Oklahoma City, where she grew up, and prohibited her from flying. Meanwhile, legal proceedings in Hawaii have begun to allow the children's foster parents to adopt them.

Freeman has been denied permission to attend custody hearings in Maui over the last six months, court records show.

"I have cried. I have cried for my children every day," Freeman said. "I feel the system is failing me."

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-airline-felonies20-2009j
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"The term `domestic terrorism' means activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State."
—Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 - U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, 18 US Code 2331
http://infowars.com/print_patriotact2_analysis.htm

"My message to America this morning, then, is this: If YOU fit this definition of a 'terrorist', fear the United States, for YOU WILL lose your liberty! We have engaged in a deliberate campaign of arrest and detention of law breakers."
—John Ashcroft, US attorney general, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, December 6, 2001

"After my car broke down on the Interstate highway in Nashville, Tennessee, Metro police towed and impounded my car and issued me a parking citation for 'violating the Homeland Security Act'."
—Disgruntled Driver, WLAC.com 1510AM, Legally Speaking talk radio show, May 8, 2004

"SUMMARY: Creates crime of terrorism. Punishes by life imprisonment.
SECTION 1.
(1) A person commits the crime of terrorism if the person knowingly plans, participates in or carries out any act that is intended, by at least one of its participants, to disrupt:
(a) The free and orderly assembly of the inhabitants of the State of Oregon;
(b) Commerce or the transportation systems of the State of Oregon; or
(c) The educational or governmental institutions of the State of Oregon or its inhabitants.
(2) A person commits the crime of terrorism if the person conspires to do any of the activities described in subsection (1) of this section.
(4) (a) A person convicted of terrorism shall be punished by imprisonment for life. (b) When a person is convicted of terrorism under this section, the court shall order that the person be confined for a minimum of 25 years without possibility of parole, release to post-prison supervision, release on work release or any form of temporary leave or employment at a forest or work camp."
SECTION 3.
Section 19, chapter 666, Oregon Laws 2001, as amended by section 5, chapter 696, Oregon Laws 2001, is amended to read:
The crimes to which section 1 (11)(b), chapter 666, Oregon Laws 2001, applies are:
(1) Bribe giving
(7) Official misconduct in the first degree
(16) Possession of materials depicting sexually explicit conduct
(17) Theft
(24) Unauthorized use of a vehicle
(26) Laundering a monetary instrument
(27) Engaging in a financial transaction in property derived from unlawful activity
(28) Burglary
(31) Unlawful entry into a motor vehicle
(34) Computer crime
(39) Unlawful recording of a live performance
(40) Unlawful labeling of a videotape recording
(50) Fraudulently obtaining a signature
(51) Fraudulent use of a credit card
(52) Negotiating a bad check
(55) Falsifying business records
(56) Sports bribery
(59) Issuing a false financial statement
(69) Unlawful possession of a firearm
(80) Improperly transferring a handgun
(89) Prostitution
(93) Unlawful gambling
(99) Cheating
(103) Animal abuse
(105) Animal neglect
(110) Unauthorized use of a livestock animal
(117) Unlawful delivery of an imitation controlled substance
(123) Misuse of an identification card
(129) Criminal driving while suspended or revoked
(130) Driving while under the influence of intoxicants
(132) Terrorism, as defined in section 1 of this 2003 Act
—72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session, Senate Bill 742, amendment to Chapter 666, Oregon Laws 2001, Rense.com, "Oregon Bill Gives Protestors LIFE In Prison In Forest Work Camp - Reclassifies ALL Crimes as 'Terrorism'"
www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/sb0700.dir/sb0742.intro.html
www.rense.com/general36/pce.htm

"Government control of Communications and Transportation."
-Communist Manifesto, 6th Plank, written by Karl Marx in London, England, United Kingdon of the British Empire
www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html

"What we need is more Red terror! More and more and more!"
-Jewish Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin

"You will be happy to learn that the former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security."
-Al Martin, AlMartinRaw.com, Behind the Scenes in the Beltway, "Get Ready for the USSA (The United Soviet States of America)," March 17, 2003
www.impeach-bush-now.org/Articles/Americans/USSA.htm

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Originally posted by piratenews:
A flight attendant confronted Freeman, who responded by hurling a few profanities and throwing what remained of a can of tomato juice on the floor.

"I had no idea I was breaking the law," said Freeman, 40, who spent three months in jail before pleading guilty.

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"Strictly speaking, a driver can register a BAC of 0.00% and still be convicted of a DUI. The level of BAC does not clear a driver when it is below the 'presumed level of intoxication.'"
—Tennessee Driver Handbook and Driver License Study Guide

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"A law repugnant to the constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument."
-Chief Justice John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)

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her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary into her lap.

She spanked each of them on the thigh with three swats ...

A flight attendant confronted Freeman, who responded by hurling a few profanities and throwing what remained of a can of tomato juice on the floor.

Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 ... A court-appointed attorney told her that a plea deal would be the fastest way to see her children, who had been taken back to Hawaii and put into foster care.

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A court-appointed attorney told her that a plea deal would be the fastest way to see her children

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A court-appointed attorney told her that a plea deal would be the fastest way to see her children

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That ain't justice, that's extortion.

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Originally posted by rue:
Hero wants to excuse the conviction by claiming she had 'been drinking'.

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Originally posted by rue:
But --- she threw it to the floor, not --AT-- anyone. That's one thing that caught my eye.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
cause yer not as good as you think you are.

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"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks.”
—Usama bin Laden, CNN, "Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks," September 17, 2001

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/

"We've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming."
—Dick Cheney, "Interview of the Vice President by Tony Snow", March 29, 2006

www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html

QUESTION: "Mr President, in your speeches, you rarely mention Osama Bin Laden. Why is that?"
GEORGE BUSH JR: "I don't know where he is. I just don't spend that much time on him."

QUESTION: "But Osama bin Laden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11..."
DANA PERINO: "No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now." (torture only produces false confessions)

"9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
—FBI agent Rex Tomb, June 6, 2006
www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

"The goal has never been to get Bin Laden."
—General Richard Myers, chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff
www.myspace.com/911pressfortruth

"The FBI has issued a BOLO on suspected terrorists driving a white delivery van from New York City to the Mexican border. The suspects are using Israeli passports. They are armed and dangerous."
-Knox County Emergency 911 Dispatch, BOLO Be On the Lookout, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 11, 2001, 11am EST
www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html
www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0622-05.htm


FBI will pay you $1-Million Reward to arrest this Jewish leader of AllCIAduh

"The FBI added Adam Gadahn to the Most Wanted Terrorist list and the U.S. State Department is offering a reward up to $1 million for his arrest. A 28-year-old California man has been indicted on federal charges of treason and providing material support to a terrorist group for making a series of propaganda videotapes for al Qaeda, including one in which he praised the hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks. 'Adam Gadahn represents a new breed of home-grown extremist, who has chosen to betray the country of his birth,' FBI Executive Assistant Director Willie Hulon said during a press conference Wednesday in Washington, D.C."
-FBI Most Wanted Poster
www.fbi.gov/page2/oct2006/gadahn101106.htm

"In Sept of last year, Adam Gadahn [aka Adam Perlman], the son of Jewish parents, the son of Jewish grandparents [who are on the board of directors of Jewish ADL] in Southern California, who himself converted to Islam, went on to become Osama Bin Laden's spokesman."
-Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA), Jewish chairman
Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment
CSPAN, Use of the Internet by Terrorists: Using the Web as a Weapon for 9/11 Truth, November 6, 2007
www.piratenews.org/flight93.html

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