You pay for a ticket to fly somewhere and end up with a broken nose, lose two teeth

[malaise]

and have several injuries and there are people even here on DU who defend that violation of a man's basic rights.

Then we wonder why Groper Don the Con can bomb anywhere he chooses.
What exactly are these freedoms we're defending again?

[democratisphere]

1. You can be afraid of terrorists, but be more afraid of the airport police

and United Airlines.

[HoneyBadger]

2. Fear racism

Because that was the root cause

[democratisphere]

3. Racism is far more serious and widespread than I ever imagined.

It will be difficult to change deplorable's minds.

[malaise]

4. Precisely

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[Vinca]

5. I'm much more afraid of the goober with the gun who trips and falls in the produce aisle

and accidently discharges his pistol into the cantaloupes. Of all the deaths and injuries in this country, how many end up being "terror" related and how many end up being "idiot-with-a-gun" related? Don isn't defending any kind of freedom, he's bombing because the media slobbers all over itself calling him "presidential" when he does. It's like a trained rat. Give it some cheese when it finds its way through the maze and it'll get through the next one twice as fast.

[malaise]

7. Yep

or the graduate student who snaps in the next week or two

[n2doc]

8. There is a lot of pro-authoritarian Propaganda out there

And obviously some folks swallow it hook line and sinker. If we see it here on DU, just imagine how prevalent it is in the rest of the USA.

As United is finding out, however, there are a lot more folks who find United's behavior appalling.
So it is a double whammy- evil policies leading to a PR disaster. But we are told businesses are run so much better than the Government!

[dalton99a]

10. It is cold-blooded propaganda to obfuscate

The revisionists are oh, maybe at Rev 4.X now, contorting like a pretzel trying to defend and immunize the Great and Fantastic United Airlines

[n2doc]

12. Yep

[HughBeaumont]

9. Well, hey, there are people on here who defend Republican economic policy.

So the lapdoggishness to overreaching corporate and public authority should hardly surprise anyone anymore.

Unfortunately.

[annabanana]

11. and the world is also full of botskis and trollskis . . n/t

[Bradical79]

13. Some defended the Trayvon Martin killing too

Whether those people are still around, I have no idea. But it is an open forum despite the stated purpose, and anyone can sign up. There's no ethics test to join the Democratic party or to post here, so really it's not too shocking. Depressing and enraging, but not shocking, imo.

[mzteaze]

14. Just had...

Conversation with a friend who believed Dr Dao had fault in being dragged off.

Really!

[malaise]

15. I believe you

Obey Obey Obey and then they talk about our freedoms - what fucking freedoms do we have left?