Airline Passengers Are Prisoners

In August 2010 a flight attendant for JetBlue, Steven Slater had a "meltdown" as his flight arrived at the gate. A passenger started to retrieve her bag from the overhead bin and Slater said to sit down. The passenger yelled at Slater. Slater yelled at her over the PA, then grabbed a beer, activated the emergency escape slide, slid down the slide and ran to his car and drove away. He was later arrested and charged with a felony.

Other passengers said Slater was acting strange during the whole flight from Pittsburgh to New York.

Slater is now being hailed as a hero for his meltdown and crazy actions. His fellow union members are actually defending his bizarre behavior. The passengers do not have a union to defend them against the prison guards.

My hero is the passenger who told Slater to ***k off!

The passenger is my hero because airline passengers are treated like prisoners. This is one reason I don't fly on airlines anymore. From the time passengers arrive at the airport until they leave they are under the rules and regulations of the government airport, the Transportation Security Administration, a government agency. The passengers are under the big umbrella government agency, The Department of Homeland Security. Nice name, "Homeland". The name homeland was likely designed to get submission from the serfs.

And when the passengers are on the plane they are always reminded that they must comply with all of the rules imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration on the airline and the passengers.

The FAA has more rules than I suspect a prison has. The FAA requires that all passenger "must" be seated before takeoff and that "all" luggage "must" be stowed. Electronic devices "must" be off. Seat backs "must" be in the upright position. Why this rule I don't know. Has there ever been an injury because someone had their seat back reclined two inches during the millions of takeoffs and landings. No! Yet the flight attendant prison guards will walk through the cabin and if your seat back is one inch from the full upright position the FA will say, "Get your seat back up".

All of these rules and regulations we sheep are told is for our own safety. Most people feel good knowing the Shepherd is watching out for the safety of the flock.

In the early days of Southwest Airlines they would make takeoffs before passengers were seated and carry on baggage was stored. Southwest did this because they would turn an aircraft around in 10 minutes because they had to sell one of their four airplanes and fly the same schedule with three. The FAA decided to make a rule that all passengers had to be seated and luggage stored, though Southwest had no injuries from this procedure. If they did have an injury it should have been settled in a civil court, not by the government nannies. Of course, so many Americans act like children who want only freedom and no responsibility it is no wonder the government employees will act like nannies, for a large fee.

All of the government rules and regulations led to the success of 9/11 because the government prevented passengers from carrying guns. The government also encouraged compliance from the passengers and crew during a high jacking.

“The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages.” H.L. Mencken

Charles Tolleson, August 12, 2010