Jason Robo’s Boston Adventure – Police Overreaction?
College student with 9/11 conspiracy sticker forces delay of Boston flight
By Globe Staff
A former Worcester man was arraigned today on disorderly conduct charges after he allegedly slapped a 9/11 conspiracy sticker in a plane lavatory before running off the aircraft just before takeoff.
Jason Robo had boarded Delta flight 1165 for Salt Late City just after 5 p.m. Wednesday when the crew noticed he was acting nervously, said David Procopio, a State Police spokesman. Robo was spotted entering one of the bathrooms, and, after he left, a crew member found what appeared to be a handmade sticker that read: “9/11 was an inside job.”
Robo, 26, told police he is a student at Humboldt State University living in Eureka, Calif. His birthplace is listed as Worcester.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/07/globe_staff_a_f.html
July 31, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Not sure but it sounds like someone that listens to my news.
What a stupid thing to keep a plane on the ground for.
July 31, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Thanks for writing this up, one of the non-slanderous “guilty-before-innocent” mentions of my ordeal. I will be releasing a statement addressing the situation soon.
August 1, 2008 at 7:19 am
Hello Jason,
When you get your statement I will be happy to post it here for you.
I am not a full “Truther” but the Truth Movement has raised serious questions and I myself see no reason to believe anything the Bush fascist regime says or does.
Putting stickers on walls is not a terrorist act.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 1, 2008 at 9:23 am
Being a wild anti-authoritarian conspiracy theorist is a great luxury we have in this country. However, there is an “airplane etiquette” that requires we keep our flamboyant nature subdued and appear as rather benign zombies for the duration of our flight.
Even at the young age of 25, Mr. Robo must have intuited this. Is it an over-reaction to hunt him down and arrest him after he leaves the plane? Probably. Still, it is to be expected. Airport folks, especially flight attendants are trained to be paranoid. When someone with overtly paranoid tendencies boards the plane, he evokes the inner paranoia of the flight crew as well as the collective subconscious fears of the “benign zombies”.
Now, I am sure this will become a great platform for Mr. Robo to play out his narcissistic fantasy of “crusader for truth” being targeted by “The Man.” It is always the case with paranoiacs that the danger is outside. never does it occur to them that there situation is created by and sustained by their unresolved inner issues and their perception of the outer circumstances (even real injustice) is inevitably distorted by these same psychic trauma.
The bright side is that if this fellow Robo ever resolves his inner issues he has already displayed a capacity to put himself in harms way to stand for truth. May it be so that he finds that truth within himself first.
August 1, 2008 at 9:27 am
It’s nice to see a positive page. I want this to be another argument that people get out there, because too many people listen to the wrong media and watch too much Fox news.
First, I’d like to address the fact about the stickers. They are a statement and a belief about 9-11 being a conspiracy. Okay. Well, do you really think someone who believes that all of those innocent people dying was wrong would really try to bomb a plane and be a threat? Is that REALLY what they stand for? No.
Then, why waste one in a lavatory and put wrappers in another person’s sitting area when the plane is jam packed and that person would probably be like “wtf”?
Why try to rush off the plane when everyone is being forced to evacuate anyway? Hm, how utterly suspicious.
When down at baggage claim and the cops arrest you out of no where and don’t tell you why, I see the sarcasm coming out and calling THAT a joke (that’s really what went down).
Oh, how the media twists stories… And in a video, all he wanted to do was be home and have it all be over. Maybe he has a life and someone to go back to and agrees that the flight being delayed over something as small as stickers was crazy.
Nonetheless, when using critical thinking and given a bit more information, surely people can agree and see the stupidity in trying to charge an innocent man because he had a t-shirt that expressed similar beliefs to the stickers (not even a Bush/Hitler shirt; rather a Bush/double-speak shirt). And heaven forbid you were the last PASSENGER to use the bathroom. Couldn’t a leaving passenger from the last flight have decided to commit the incredibly dumb act when no attendants were watching? And because the flight was so damn important, maybe he wanted to get off the plane and reschedule the flight because he didn’t want to miss his connection or be stuck sleeping in the airport. You know, when the airlines mess up, you talk to the people at the counter and they will pay for you to have a room for the night.
I think he’s innocent and that the state charging him is ridiculous, as there is not enough evidence to really prove it was him. Did they even bother to finger print the sticker?
A commenter Goldengrl on other blogs left this:
“…if it were a presidential campaign sticker or any other sticker, it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. I think this whole thing has been blown out of proportion and there is no evidence that really says it’s him. And fingerprinting the sticker is a great idea. We have all of this biotechnology that is supposed to help authorities catch criminals or find missing persons. I wonder if they even bothered to put any of it to use.”
August 1, 2008 at 9:28 am
Well, I shouldn’t say “never does it occur to them” it is just that it is incredibly painful to face and is therefore usually repressed, it is however possible, usually with guidance, to resolve distortions in inner object relations.
August 1, 2008 at 9:38 am
It is also possible, “Mr. T” that some people like Jason Robo have the courage to stand up for what they believe to be the truth, while others hide behind anonymous internet identities.
That kind of courage can be painful to face as well, can’t it “Mr. T?”
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 1, 2008 at 9:50 am
Well, like it or not, my name is “T” it is on my birth certificate. I included my e-mail address with the post. interestingly, my Dad was going to name me THX1138. I feel rather fortunate to just be T. it seems to be the nature of blogging that there is a certain amount of anonymity. I don’t really see why what I said requires any hiding, is it that outrageous.
T
August 1, 2008 at 10:21 am
Yes Mr. T,
And as you are aware I didn’t out you either.
My point is that you seem to be making a psychiatric diagnosis at a distance so perhaps you could share with us your qualifications for doing so? Otherwise I do support free speech, and recognize that anonymity does have a place in discourse, but sometimes credibility is challenged and rightly so when the character or mental health of an individual is impugned.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 1, 2008 at 10:35 am
I don’t really care much about credibility. Perhaps, I am totally wrong. I just happened to be moved to write what I wrote, if it is useful to anyone, great. If no one finds value within it, I am happy if they dismiss it. It is just another stream of words in an imaginary realm.
have a peaceful heart (if you wish),
T
August 1, 2008 at 10:55 am
Jason,
Please contact truth@boston911truth.org
August 1, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Omg, Mr. T., lol.
I do appreciate you trying to diagnose Mr. Robo, but I think you are out of order. Do you even know him? How intimately if so…? As everyone is allowed to voice their opinion (which can be disproved through a case of stickers apparently), I do believe that your views on his mental state at the current moment are unqualified and far-fetched. But this blog should not be about the mental health of Mr. Robo. It is abthout the fact of WHAT he’s being charged with, the evidence that proves so, and the course he is being forced to take with the authorities.
Where do you stand with believing the stickers as his, and even so, about them being stuck in a bathroom with the reaction they received? And why is the State rather than the airport suing? Do you believe that 9-11 truth-ers are terrorists and therefore a good reason to evacuate a plane and investigate a person? Are people’s beliefs enough proof to have them be put away if they don’t act on them, but rather people discover them? (ex: think about the Jews). I thought freedom of speech was unlimited, other than threatening to kill the president or yelling fire in a movie theater…
Have a peaceful day,
Jade
PS. I shall be awaiting your response and views. Thanks for a great debate in advance
August 1, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Let’s see. This kid buys a ticket, gets onto a plane, vandalizes with a bunch of stickers about 9/11 being a government plot, changes his clothes in the bathroom, and then runs off of the plane before it takes off, wasting his ticket. AT LOGAN, NO LESS.
And you are surprised that people thought he might have planted a bomb onboard?
If anyone get onto a plane, acts weird, then make a fuss and run off, I would want people to be concerned. In particular if
Yeah, he’s just a kid who wants to call attention to himself and calls it “justice”.
But I forgot. To you it’s all a massive plot, orchestrated by a government that can’t even keep it’s top-secrets secret, but somehow managed to keep thousands of people quiet on this one.
I find it amusing that you somehow think toy are better than the Idiot Bush. You seem a whole lot like him.
August 1, 2008 at 7:37 pm
HI Jade,
thanks for your response. you know, maybe I am totally out of order, but anyway I’m having a good chuckle. I can’t really give much attention to the content; all the “he dids” and “I didn’ts” The discussion of rights and whose wrong.
I watch myself and humanity and most of us (myself included) want to believe we are the good guys and on the side of righteousness, truth, justice, and often even God.
What it amounts to for me is a grand drama on an infinitesimally small stage. Or perhaps the macabre charade of the inmates at the asylum. If I were to try to put a reason as to why I wrote a comment today (an unusual act) I would have to say that I have more sympathy with the inmates that are banging on the walls and trying to escape than those who are sided with the guardians and the guardians themselves.
I may be wrong again, but it is my intuition that tells me these wall bangers are a bit closer to the truth. It is just that they are so assured that the truth lies in the resistance that they rarely think to check and see if the doors to the asylum are even barred.
As the battles become more entrenched, the emotions more embittered, the fight for justice more self-centered, the souls of these combatants become altered and rigidified sometimes grotesquely.
The defenses become more like the infantile rages one expects from a three year-old, even if well-ordered and calmly presented, one can sense the desperation of being right and recognized as such. The rage intensifies as one is (quite naturally) met with skepticism or dismissal.
So what to do? maybe someone will come up with an answer in this blog and we can all waltz out the doors laughing. Or perhaps there will be a bolstering of positions and a further armouring of ourselves. I am sure there is plenty to attack in what I’ve said, but I would be more interested in any insights or tasty morsels from the depth of your humanity.
cheers, T
August 1, 2008 at 7:39 pm
P.S. I do have to agree with Cruton on a point which is that we do come to resemble that which we wish to destroy.
August 1, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Yo J! Good work on getting some national coverage, I think it was even on Al-Jazeera.
You need better disguises to get away from the man next time! Get a wig…
August 2, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Jason- you are 26 years old…when I was in college I was indoctrinated by the “anti-establishment” rhetoric at times, too.
Get some help- talk to you uncles…
August 4, 2008 at 4:02 am
He did not run off the plane. Robo did not run off the plane. Robo and the passengers were all waiting in the plane, wondering if they were going to make their connections. Everybody was then ordered off the plane, including Robo. It would have been impossible to run off the plane with all the people in front of him. Wake up Americans, you are living in the new Nazi Germany. The government is setting people up and staging events.
August 4, 2008 at 6:39 am
To add to what Carl posted, yes its true that he didn’t run off the plane. He went out to the ticket counter like anyone else that was going to miss there connecting flights. Delta even gave him vouchers, one for a meal and one for a hotel. They told him to go to the baggage claim to get his bag and thats where the police arrested him. Later after he got out on bail he used the hotel voucher. It was when the police were taking him into custody that he stated being arrested was a joke. I know these things to be true as someone close to the situation.