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Because people are sick of being treated like cattle at best

Yes, but that's the whole TSA/Airline industry. More TSA. This is a easy time to bash United, but it appears that this guy was acting LOCO. If you act like BLM, then I lose my sympathy. I'm sure that he was offered an okay alternative. If he had work then next morning, I'm sure something could have been done. He just didn't want to leave the plane and acted, again, like BLM.

TSA and the airlines are joined at the hip. It is nearly impossible to identify the point where TAS ends and the airline begins. The experience of going through airport security is dehumanizing. That is not a bug, it's a feature. The security system wants you to feel dehumanized because once you feel this way you are easier to control. The airline knows their customer feel this way. They don't care. They airline industry could have pushed back on the worst parts of the Patriot Act, but they didn't.

I'm not going to defend the flyer other than to say that there have been times that I was so fed up with the whole system that I wanted to scream. I don't agree with what he did but I understand why he did it. It seems to me that most people are not defending the flyer, but they are raking United over the coals. Because, they understand why he did it too.

Thought experiment: If you were given $10 billion tomorrow, how long would it take you to acquire a private jet?

To paraphrase a line from “Network”, (he) was mad as hell and wasn’t gonna take anymore!”

Everyone has their snapping point. I passed mine a long time ago, that’s why I have ulcers and migraines. And I’ve snapped a few times, you bet! Usually after going a Beer Too Far, so I now stay out of taverns. I thought I saw some passengers jumping up to help officials drag your “BLM” guy off. Glad I wasn’t there. My missus would still be trying to borrow enough to bail me out!