Watching them scramble to slime the United Airlines doctor...

[annabanana]

"May have had run ins with the law.. unconfirmed... We are working hard on this"

I'll fucking BET you are...

screw you MSM

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This will come back in Spades.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I don't care what "run-ins with the law" the guy once might have had.

Nobody deserves to be treated like he was just for declining to give up a seat on an airplane. I wouldn't care if it was fucking John Gotti being dragged off that airplane. How are someone's past legal issues relevant in the least? How do they retroactively excuse current mistreatment? It almost reminds me of how, when some unarmed person (most often a black guy) gets shot by police, there's a big hurry to find out whether he had a criminal record, even if he wasn't doing a damn thing wrong when he got shot. I don't have a criminal record, but if I ever get hauled off a plane and beaten up they'll report that I had some overdue library books and once got a complaint that I'd let my shrubs grow too close to the alley.

[ProfessorPlum]

9. exactly right

[RedWedge]

3. .

Link to tweet

[annabanana]

5. really . . . . n/t

[gratuitous]

4. Parking tickets, citation for speeding, something

I've been thinking this over, and there is a remedy suggested by the Sermon on the Mount. In that passage, Jesus brings up three scenarios in which the powerful lord their position over the powerless. "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles."

Someone slapping you on the right cheek would do it with his right hand, a backhanded motion. The slap is meant to humiliate the person being slapped. Turning the left cheek is a way of saying, "Hit me like a man, you coward." Someone sues you for your very foundation garment, hand over that and your cloak. Your nakedness then becomes a reproach to the person who's so greedy he'll take your last stitch of clothing. In Palestine at that time, soldiers could compel peasants or others of low station to carry their gear for a certain distance, but no farther. If you were compelled to carry his stuff, you could get him in trouble with his superior by going the extra mile. Each scenario is designed to turn the tables on the oppressor, and hold him up to public approbation.

In the United scenario, when the thugs began dragging that man off the plane, what if every other passenger stood up, gathered up their stuff, and insisted on leaving the plane too? "You need to get your flight crew to Louisville? Here's an entire plane!" This changes the power dynamic, putting the fare-paying passengers in control of the situation instead of United and its goons.

[snooper2]

7. Did you know what really happened on the mount?

Jesus was rambling on and on and everyone there REALLY wasn't paying attention.

The real story is he was walking around in circles like usual blabbing on about that and that and this and that and Peter and John were really fucking bored. When they heard him ramble about slapping they came up with a cool game to pass the time. One person puts their hands on top of the others, and the hands on bottom try to slap the hands on top. The hands on top try to pull away and not get slapped.

Thus, the game of HOT HANDS was born!


You learned something new today!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. Most people don't consider parking and speeding tickets as "run ins with the law" n/t

[Vinca]

6. Making the victim the guilty party. Disgusting.