[…] UPDATE: Steven Taylor comments: Despite one’s views about passengers who place their heads in the laps of their female companions, it is patently absurd that an anti-terrorism law would be used to put someone in jail (let alone have to incur the expense of a three-day trial) for so doing. […]
It probably doesn’t help matters that flight attendants at many airlines (but not Southwest) have been getting hit with repeated pay cuts and furloughs over the past 5 1/2 years. Disgruntled employees + the authority to take that disgruntlement out on people = bad hoodoo.
Stop flying. Take the train, take the bus, drive, walk if you have to, but stop flying. Do without that trip, stay at home for your vacation. Make the airlines hurt. Make the tourist industry hurt.
Hell, flood the justice system and make prosecutors and judges so seek of penny-ante crap they’re about ready to scream. Force things to become so outrageous ordinary citizens are ready to riot. As long as people are willing to tolerate this nothing well get done about it. Nothing substantial. Make the whole thing impossible to tolerate, then we’ll see reform.
A man was convicted last week of the federal crime of “interfering with flight crew” after he and his girlfriend were seen “embracing, kissing and acting in a manner that made other passengers uncomfortable.”
Although it usua…
Would you rather be on a plane where you consider the flight crew to have the abuse of power, or be on a plane where terrorists have all the power? We should all be able to curtail our bad manners in order to maintain the organization that is necessary to keep us safe throughout our friendly skies.
That is a false dichotomy. If the only way to have terrorist-free skies is to deputize flight attendances, that’s one thing. However, this is not the case.
Indeed, if I may say, it is thinking like that your exhibit that is part of the problem: the assumption that policies proffered in the name of safety always equate to safety and therefore we all need to just accept it, else we risk terrorism. The point of the matter is that sometimes (frequently, in fact) policies that allegedly make us safer do no such thing and yet most of it accept the policies because we hope that they work.
Comment by Dr. Steven Taylor — Monday, May 14, 2025 @ 9:17 pm
This is another example of why Congressmen and Senators should actually read the bills they vote on.
Comment by Sean Hackbarth — Tuesday, May 8, 2025 @ 10:49 pm
[…] UPDATE: Steven Taylor comments: Despite one’s views about passengers who place their heads in the laps of their female companions, it is patently absurd that an anti-terrorism law would be used to put someone in jail (let alone have to incur the expense of a three-day trial) for so doing. […]
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It probably doesn’t help matters that flight attendants at many airlines (but not Southwest) have been getting hit with repeated pay cuts and furloughs over the past 5 1/2 years. Disgruntled employees + the authority to take that disgruntlement out on people = bad hoodoo.
Comment by Chris Lawrence — Tuesday, May 8, 2025 @ 10:53 pm
Stop flying. Take the train, take the bus, drive, walk if you have to, but stop flying. Do without that trip, stay at home for your vacation. Make the airlines hurt. Make the tourist industry hurt.
Hell, flood the justice system and make prosecutors and judges so seek of penny-ante crap they’re about ready to scream. Force things to become so outrageous ordinary citizens are ready to riot. As long as people are willing to tolerate this nothing well get done about it. Nothing substantial. Make the whole thing impossible to tolerate, then we’ll see reform.
Comment by Alan Kellogg — Wednesday, May 9, 2025 @ 7:17 am
Waitresses as Air Marshals
A man was convicted last week of the federal crime of “interfering with flight crew” after he and his girlfriend were seen “embracing, kissing and acting in a manner that made other passengers uncomfortable.”
Although it usua…
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Would you rather be on a plane where you consider the flight crew to have the abuse of power, or be on a plane where terrorists have all the power? We should all be able to curtail our bad manners in order to maintain the organization that is necessary to keep us safe throughout our friendly skies.
Comment by LG — Monday, May 14, 2025 @ 8:00 pm
That is a false dichotomy. If the only way to have terrorist-free skies is to deputize flight attendances, that’s one thing. However, this is not the case.
Indeed, if I may say, it is thinking like that your exhibit that is part of the problem: the assumption that policies proffered in the name of safety always equate to safety and therefore we all need to just accept it, else we risk terrorism. The point of the matter is that sometimes (frequently, in fact) policies that allegedly make us safer do no such thing and yet most of it accept the policies because we hope that they work.
Comment by Dr. Steven Taylor — Monday, May 14, 2025 @ 9:17 pm