Why is Delta advising the police when a passenger is doing something that, as far as the airline would have any reason to be aware, is perfectly legal?
Delta hasn’t survived this long without being as Fed-friendly as possible....
Because they’ve swallowed the kool-aid lie that the police have been encouraging: there are only lawbreakers and lawbreakers who haven’t been caught. [/cynic]
The sad truth is that the presumption of innocence has been all but eliminated; there are, I think, two main factors: 1) that juries are instructed that they MUST declare on the side of the law (being kept unaware of the power of nullification) and not allowed to ‘think’ about how [higher] laws might preclude the charged-law’s validity, and 2) that people-in-general have been taught that those in authority are right (circularly, by virtue of being in a position of authority) and to submit to whatever demands are placed on them [esp TSA].