Posted on 04/15/2017 6:22:19 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
But part of the phenomenon long precedes YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and social media dictating the news. It's the American cult of victimization
You’ve been snookered folks! By that poor elderly doctor who was involuntarily dragged from his seat, had his face smashed in, and was beaten unconscious by the evil airport security at the behest of United Airlines.
Because there’s no evidence any of that was true. It was in fact a premeditated temper tantrum gone viral, comprising one 69-year-old Vietnamese-American David Dao, a medical doctor who lost his license, planning a lawsuit from the moment United first politely asked him to give up his seat. He demanded to be dragged, did an excellent impersonation of Ned Beatty’s character in that horrific scene in Deliverance, and struck his lip on an armrest. From the many videos taken by numerous passengers, obviously from numerous angles, there’s no evidence of a beating, a “serious” concussion, or bodily damage beyond that lip.
Saw an early tape when he was screaming and running around....before he went back to his seat...no blood just crazy talk.
Need more video of earlier events. Hope someone has some.
The sad thing about this whole deal is that if he had been found guilty of trading drugs for sex in China, he probably would have been executed. Here, he’s going to be come a multi-millionaire.
I think a lot of people are going to have egg on their faces when the facts all come out. On one of the first FR threads on this subject someone suggested that this could be a “Hands up, don’t shoot!” moment.
This is the story that keeps on giving. I don’t care whether the Dr was wrong or right, I’m just here for the D.R.A.M.A.
I guess you have to expect that, if you go up against a company like United, your past will be plumbed and exposed. The same thing would happen to anyone.
Four people were asked to give up their seats to make room for last-minute United employees to travel. Three of them did it, one of them refused.
In his case, he was traveling with family.
All four passengers were already seated waiting for take-off, with boarding passes in hand, in seats they reserved, paid for, and occupied.
It was an abuse for United to demand that any of them get off the plane. They all have family waiting at the other end, a lot of them have responsibilities that won’t wait, they have to be there. Most people delay their departure until the last possible moment so getting there a day late isn’t really an option.
We all know you can be bumped if they overbook the flight, and that’s bad enough. But once you have boarding pass in hand and are seated for take-off, to be booted off to make room for employees who suddenly decided they needed to travel, is an abuse. For what United is going to pay, they could have bought a plane and flown their employees.
Yes, I have been saying this from early on. It appears that he saw an opportunity and took it.
There was no reason to resist the police. He even mentioned a lawsuit before the police ever touched him.
Did Marie Antoinette really say “Let them eat cake?” Doubtful. But it “caused” a revolution just the same. Did US really napalm a Vietnamese girl? No. But it changes everyone’s perceptions of the Vietnam War.
This guy, whatever actually happened, is now a SYMBOL of all that is wrong with overbooking by airlines. It’s fraud, pure & simple. People have paid for the seats, whether they choose to sit in them or not.
This is a typical case of private businesses not doing the right thing, the a massive backlash appears & gubment steps in. Not condoning it, but it is inevitable when the private sector, especially when there is little choice/genuine competition, fails to serve customers.
Revisionist history isn’t the sole refuge of the unprincipled Liberal.
They had to travel to do their jobs. Other flights depended on them getting to the destination inside federally regulated time limits. It was United who had to meet the federal regs that required the employees to travel.
So you inconvenience four passengers now, or you inconvenience complete flights later. That was the choice United Had.
They should have offered a higher premium. That is where they messed up.
“On one of the first FR threads on this subject someone suggested that this could be a “Hands up, don’t shoot!” moment.”
Here in Louisiana, there is actually a “hands up don’t shoot” event that happened and was recorded on video. Two black police officers shot at a man in his car, the man was getting out of the car with his hands up. The man’s six year old son was shot dead.
I bet anything you have not seen that video (from body cam on police officer).
American society has become SO woosified !
Suckered Michael Fumento, at least.
...to be booted off to make room for employees who suddenly
decided they needed to travel, is an abuse.
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That is the details we don’t have good info on or at least I’ve not seen any.
I believe the four “employees” were actuall employess of another airline,
Republic Express or I believe I read that somewhere.
I also read something which I can’t find now that Dao and his wife actually
deplaned but immediately returned and sat back down. How true I don’t know.
The actual
sequences of this event have dribble out and not one coherent sequence has
been published to my knowledge. If it gets to court then we’ll get a detail
of what, when and how this all came down.
So how did he manage to get away from the 3 officers and get back on the plane?
I have no doubt this is a Scam and America and the Media have bought into it hook,line and sinker. Even FOX News has bought into it!
Whoops...previouspost is on wrong thread sorry
I think all of the big-name plaintiffs scored Pyrrhic victories. Nader spent oh, eight years in litigation and got bragging rights plus 15 grand, and the airlines still overbook.
Kluczynski got an award of $208,000 (for a friggin two hour delay), that was reduced to $7,000 by the same judge that oversaw the award of punitive damages. Punitive damages for overbooking are not allowed, period. Anyway, that case didn't end the practice of overbooking either.
Stone beat the Rule 25 cap, and was awarded $3,100 at the end of trial. And the overbooking beat goes on.
-- It's fraud, pure & simple. --
That boat sailed with the Nader case. It isn't fraud, the fine print says you can be bumped.
-- This is a typical case of private businesses not doing the right thing, the a massive backlash appears & gubment steps in. --
The government isn't going to abolish overbooking. It has stepped in and fined airlines who don't pay the required minimums to bumpees, and that's the extent of help that's going to materialize from that "ally."
This jerk is a convicted criminal plus a faggot. He needs to be shipped back to Vietnam.
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