This guy was probably being a loud, blind prick. Just because he is blind doesn't mean he can stomp around demanding shit and cry because he got pulled off a plane. Then he cries about how badly he was treated because they took away his cane and put him in a cell where he wandered about bumping his own head on shit to try and obfuscate the fact that he is an asshole who made a bad decision and wants to shift the accountability on the police. LOL. Gimme a fucking break. I hate people.

Well I don't believe everything I read. I have seen my fair share of belligerent, disruptive people on aircraft that just make things worse...and I would be willing to bet a significant amount of money that behind all the he said, they said...that the guy wasn't denied water....or that he even asked for it. And that it was more likely he was throwing a tantrum enough that he deserved to get off the plane...and then resisted enough to get himself arrested. Now he is crying about injustice because of this or that and is willing to make all kinds of claims that he was denied water...and then water-boarded in the lavatory just for asking....
Because really...lets all be honest...there is much bigger chance that the airline attendants are brutal animals who love causing discomfort and withholding basic human needs, than this guy being a huge fucking jerk who was violent enough to get himself kicked off a plane..and then wanted to start fights with police.

how is this controversial and why is it in the politics thread?

I'm wondering how this is controversial as well. I posted in the politics thread because authoritarianism is always political.

I don't know everything that happened, but I'm guessing at most the guy was an obnoxious loud prick, which is pretty reasonable considering the circumstances. Regardless of how he wound up getting dragged from the airplane how he was apparently treated afterward is pretty fucked up.

Anyway, I fucked up your post Leon, sorry about that. It was a shitty one anyway :p
It was shitty because you made up the part about the old prick not getting food or water for two days.
The punishment fit the crime; You resist arrest, you go to jail for 48 hours.

I thought you had a great relationship with police, per the traffic stop thread. With your uncanny charm and that claim that you have been caught multiple times with pot in you car and you and the cops just have a light chuckle about it and go on with your day.

[quote=Gib_Omelet]I also think it is hard imagine that law enforcement would be called about one irate passenger, and then hear some incomplete story and assume the foreigner was to blame. I find it so very hard to believe that there would be a cascade of errors resulting in poor treatment of someone who was disoriented and not given information about the procedures of zealous law enforcement officers.

I mean this country is renown for its treatment of foreign nationals, and has always been forthright in explaining its procedures.

Incidentally, did you know:
The sociopathic police personality: Is it a product of the “Rotten Apple� or the “Rotten Barrel?�

Oh, and:
Furthermore, recently research has indicted that successful police officers’ personalities are
similar to those of criminals, who often have elevations on Scales 4 and 9 on the MMPI-2. (Hargrave, Hiatt &
Gaffney, 1986; Boone & Green, 1991).
Cited from -
http://www1.umn.edu/mmpi...s/personnel_reffile.pdf[/quote]

This all sounds disturbingly plausible, especially considering a lot of corrupt cop stories I've been told.

...I prefer not to think about it, it just increases my general sense of misery and helplessness