Shame On You, United

[grrm]

I don't often comment on current events, but the story about the passenger that United Airlines beat bloody and dragged off a flight -- for no reason but to accomodate some of their own deadheading employees, and despite the fact that he had a ticket that he'd bought and paid for and was doing nothing but sitting peacefully in his assigned seat --

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[ext_3453835]

Preach!

The lack of outrage at the police brutality is disgusting. 'just following orders' is no excuse for the horrible lack of discretion, logic, reason, and empathy.

Not cops, security guards.

[ext_3815941]

They weren't cops. They were airport security. Nice try though.

Re: Not cops, security guards.

[grrm]

They were airport cops. Not Chicago PD, but not TSA either.

And I don't care if they were members of the Night's Watch, they should be fired. Especially the one who did the dragging.

Re: Not cops, security guards.

[ext_3235758]

Uh, you should know better than I, but I didn't think it was possible to get fired from the Night's Watch. :-)

Pls George

[ext_4088120]

What's with the twitter posts from the last 24hrs?

[ext_3874529]

Even worse are the news orgs digging up dirt on the victim as if that is relevant. Loved your tweets recently, is that going to become a thing?

George RR Martin official Twitter.

[moon_flower666]

Excuse me Mr.Martin, I know this is not in topic but was your Twitter account hacked or maybe taken over by a minion? Or were you truly the one who posted your recent Twitter posts?

[gholam]

As I understand it, this has nothing to do with (de)regulation - what United did here was illegal under the current law. This seems well-sourced:

http://disq.us/p/1hqpe1x