The Mentally Ill Keeping the Mentally Ill off Planes 

Meet Marilyn Hartman, a “serial stowaway.” Sporting white hair and a frank, disarming gaze, Ms. Hartman is 66 years old, homeless, and supposedly insane. Yet this plucky gal has outwitted the TSA’s goons time and again, waltzing past them without showing ID or a ticket and then boarding planes. Her latest exploit about ten days ago garnered her headlines worldwide, when she hopped a flight from Chicago’s O’Hare to London—yes, as in England. Our Rulers hauled her into court, as usual; the judge ordered her to stay away from airports, as usual. And yesterday, there she was again, back at O’Hare.  Obviously, Ms. … Continue reading The Mentally Ill Keeping the Mentally Ill off Planes