Are You Kidding Me?
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Couldn't agree more! You want some involvement/regulation/oversight/controls in these matters , what they call limited government, what this country was founded on. But as I see it, the problem now is too MUCH regulation of everything. The government gets in with both feet and takes over completely. The Fed is supposed to fundamentally be in charge of ONE THING: National defense and security. Check the Constitution. All other powers not enumerated are supposed to be up to the states.
These are the people who built a gas station over in Afghanistan or somewhere, and spent enough money to build something like FORTY gas stations. I don't need them telling me I cannot smoke in my own home. Go worry about something else.
No, the problem is absolute power. My history book calls it: Fascism. The TSA has absolute power. At the wave of their hand, their agent can ruin your life. And the airline was given absolute power. Fear of non-compliance drives many to do stupid things on BOTH sides of the law. The very fact that resisting (even questioning) an airline agent is a FELONY? Used to be that you were a felon if you committed a really terrible heinous act. Now the law is used to beat people over the head in a huddle of fear of noncompliance.
These are the people who built a gas station over in Afghanistan or somewhere, and spent enough money to build something like FORTY gas stations. I don't need them telling me I cannot smoke in my own home. Go worry about something else.
No, the problem is absolute power. My history book calls it: Fascism. The TSA has absolute power. At the wave of their hand, their agent can ruin your life. And the airline was given absolute power. Fear of non-compliance drives many to do stupid things on BOTH sides of the law. The very fact that resisting (even questioning) an airline agent is a FELONY? Used to be that you were a felon if you committed a really terrible heinous act. Now the law is used to beat people over the head in a huddle of fear of noncompliance.
I kid you not - I'm on a radio show and the host wants to talk about this United Airlines fiasco. Well, you guys got me ready for it at least.
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This just gets better and better. I was just checking out an online USA Today article on this mess, and it featured a great photo of "Asian-American" and "Arab-American" groups protesting police brutality at O'hare. I realize everyone is in a big hurry to jump out in front of the "I'm being discriminated against" bus, but seriously? This is at best an extremely tangential Asian-American issue, but Arab-Americans? What the hell is the connection there? Maybe I should get my Polski brethren together and protest, based on the grounds that this guy had a kielbasa sandwich for lunch the week before the incident. God, I need to get on Youtube and watch old footage of cops beating the shit out of hippies to soothe my aching soul.
More rules, more problems.
Oh well, my memory is foggy due to lack of Royal Yacht.
If only someone had written about this tendency... it was in a book called The Republic, maybe.
Oh well, my memory is foggy due to lack of Royal Yacht.
We are all victims in America!
ITMT, United has issued a full refund to all of the passengers of that flight for the trauma and inconvenience they suffered and the Doc has hired an attorney.
Seems he was going to settle with just getting a full refund and apology from the CEO. Now that everyone else is getting that too, he is suing that all the other passengers get a beating.
In some ways the response to this episode is a bit surprising. But when you stop and think about things, it really seems to have kit a nerve with most of America. It's been a topic of discussion with the folks @ the office, out on the golf course and it seems like you can't listen to the radio or watch tv without some commentary, be it another humorous jab @ UAl & the Goon squad, or folks up in arms about the atrocity perpetuated on an ordinary citizen.
On the airplane forum that I've been on for 8 or 9 years, it's already reached 45 pages and almosts 700 posts.
Not trying to make this political, but I for one am a man that has grown increasingly frustrated with government over reach and the apparent blind willingness of our citizenry to accept it all as "keepin us safe" (thinnk TSA, IRS, FDA, ATF, etc...)
Regardless of where your opinion falls on this matter, I think we're gonna see some changes from the airlines and airport police/security. Not to mention the predictable copycat behavior surely to exhibit itself on future flights.
Sadly, all of this could have been avoided if all parties involved had simply observed the Golden Rule.
Here endeth the preachment.
Dino
On the airplane forum that I've been on for 8 or 9 years, it's already reached 45 pages and almosts 700 posts.
Not trying to make this political, but I for one am a man that has grown increasingly frustrated with government over reach and the apparent blind willingness of our citizenry to accept it all as "keepin us safe" (thinnk TSA, IRS, FDA, ATF, etc...)
Regardless of where your opinion falls on this matter, I think we're gonna see some changes from the airlines and airport police/security. Not to mention the predictable copycat behavior surely to exhibit itself on future flights.
Sadly, all of this could have been avoided if all parties involved had simply observed the Golden Rule.
Here endeth the preachment.
Dino
I only see it getting worse. Why ? No resistance.
How many times have we witnessesd senseless beatdowns(and killings) from authoritative figures?
And it continues to escalate.No changes for the better. None. Just more of the same.
And lawsuits do nothing to stop it.
Learn to lick the boots of your masters. Or else.
How many times have we witnessesd senseless beatdowns(and killings) from authoritative figures?
And it continues to escalate.No changes for the better. None. Just more of the same.
And lawsuits do nothing to stop it.
Learn to lick the boots of your masters. Or else.
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