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How the United Passenger Suckered Us
Canada Free Press ^ | 04/15/16 | Michael Fumento

Posted on 04/15/2017 6:22:19 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

But part of the phenomenon long precedes YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and social media dictating the news. It's the American cult of victimization

You’ve been snookered folks! By that poor elderly doctor who was involuntarily dragged from his seat, had his face smashed in, and was beaten unconscious by the evil airport security at the behest of United Airlines.

Because there’s no evidence any of that was true. It was in fact a premeditated temper tantrum gone viral, comprising one 69-year-old Vietnamese-American David Dao, a medical doctor who lost his license, planning a lawsuit from the moment United first politely asked him to give up his seat. He demanded to be dragged, did an excellent impersonation of Ned Beatty’s character in that horrific scene in Deliverance, and struck his lip on an armrest. From the many videos taken by numerous passengers, obviously from numerous angles, there’s no evidence of a beating, a “serious” concussion, or bodily damage beyond that lip.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: abuse; customerassault; daviddao; lawsuit; luegenpresse; socialmedia; ual; unitedairlines; unitedthugs
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To: vespa300

You’re right its a premier law journal. Why, I’ll bet they published that eminent constitutional scholar Barak Obama. Personally, I take the advice of Women’s Wear Daily for what oil to put in my car.


281 posted on 04/15/2017 2:07:54 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: vespa300

Multiple choice:

Does the article say:

“New Woman says Dao not Belligerent,”

Or:

“New VIDEO Suggests Dao not Belligerent,”

???


282 posted on 04/15/2017 2:10:11 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: vespa300

Why must you lie?

United has never backtracked on stating that the plane was “boarded.”


283 posted on 04/15/2017 2:11:36 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Locomotive Breath

>>>>You’re right its a premier law journal. Why, I’ll bet they published that eminent constitutional scholar Barak Obama. Personally, I take the advice of Women’s Wear Daily for what oil to put in my car.>>>>

Thanks for proving my point. Obama, Dershowtiz, Harvard, Yale law.....Ive League, Berkeley.....such bastions of conservative rationale reasonable thought and constitutional scholarship.

If it’s a law Journal ......it has to be constitutional. Yeah....that’s it. Thanks!


284 posted on 04/15/2017 2:12:25 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: Locomotive Breath
I wasn't referring to the Dao case when I called you a chump for settling for vouchers. You won't have to sue to get your check. You do have to reject the offered voucher.

-- If you're suggesting that I stand up in the plane and say, I've read the CoC and I'm not getting off until you cut me a check ... --

No. We had a pretty simple argument here. I said you are entitled to CASH. You claim you are not entitled to CASH, and that I should read the CoC for myself.

Relevant parts of CoC posted for others. You get the last word.

285 posted on 04/15/2017 2:14:54 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Fantasywriter

>>>Why must you lie?

United has never backtracked on stating that the plane was “boarded.”>>>>

Quote back to me where I said they specifically backtracked on saying it was “boarded.” The CEO backtracked on his initial comments. He softened his comments.

Don’t be a fantasywriter.


286 posted on 04/15/2017 2:15:19 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: vespa300
See my #259.

UAL has indeed made numerous conflicting public statements. All on the record. All admissible in court. All digging the hole deeper. The chaos in their public handling of this just underscores how this mess could happen in the first place.

Someone at UAL needs to learn the Law of Holes

287 posted on 04/15/2017 2:15:41 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: Cboldt

I’m entitled to a lot of things. Getting cash under the CoC is a practical impossibility. Just like, apparently, keeping your seat under the CoC after you’ve non-disruptively boarded.


288 posted on 04/15/2017 2:17:45 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: Locomotive Breath

>>>UAL has indeed made numerous conflicting public statements. All on the record. All admissible in court. All digging the hole deeper. The chaos in their public handling of this just underscores how this mess could happen in the first place.>>>>

By conflicting you mean they have backed off their initial comments that basically blamed the passenger. In fact they have softened to such a degree that they are saying they messed up.

Because the LEFT and some emotional conservatives have relentlessly attacked the business. And a practice that is legal and been going on for years. Period.


289 posted on 04/15/2017 2:20:22 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: vespa300

Maybe you’d have done better not to come out of the gate tossing the ‘Nazi’ label around as a smear tactic.


290 posted on 04/15/2017 2:23:22 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: vespa300

>>UAL says he was boarded. When read out against the CoC, this statement is soooo going to come back to haunt them.>>>

‘Everyone knows UAL has backtracked.’

The second quote is you, responding to the first. 


291 posted on 04/15/2017 2:25:45 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

>>>>Maybe you’d have done better not to come out of the gate tossing the ‘Nazi’ label around as a smear tactic.>>>>

You mean after I was smeared half dozen times, mocked, warned, threatened, called nothing but a newbie, finally being told I was being “watched.”.....

Yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have overreacted with the Nazi joke. to the thin skinned bullies.....agree?


292 posted on 04/15/2017 2:25:56 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: Fantasywriter

>>UAL says he was boarded. When read out against the CoC, this statement is soooo going to come back to haunt them.>>>

‘Everyone knows UAL has backtracked.’

>>The second quote is you, responding to the first.>>

And the first quote is just a partial quote of yours to save space. I was clear the CEO softened because of the attacks from the LEFT and some emotional conservatives.


293 posted on 04/15/2017 2:28:55 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: vespa300

So you called every person who posted those things a ‘Nazi’? You’ve been busier going the Hitler route than I realized.


294 posted on 04/15/2017 2:32:54 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

>>>So you called every person who posted those things a ‘Nazi’? You’ve been busier going the Hitler route than I realized.>>>>

Yeah, bullies are Nazi like. Thanks.


295 posted on 04/15/2017 2:35:12 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: vespa300

The first quote isn’t mine. It’s a factual statement that United said the plane had been boarded. You responded that they had backtracked.

You are wrong. United has never backtracked on stating that the plane was boarded.


296 posted on 04/15/2017 2:35:22 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: vespa300

I’ve seen a lot of new people on this site. I’ve never seen one so obsessed with calling freepers Nazis.


297 posted on 04/15/2017 2:37:13 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter

>>>I’ve seen a lot of new people on this site. I’ve never seen one so obsessed with calling freepers Nazis.>>>

If you bully someone and threaten them and mock their “newbie” status and warn them that they are being watched...yeah, be prepared to get the disrespect you dish. The disrespect you initiate. THanks now.


298 posted on 04/15/2017 2:41:04 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: Fantasywriter

>>>you are wrong. United has never backtracked on stating that the plane was boarded.>>>

You are wrong because you misinterpreted what I said. So it’s you that is wrong. Not me.


299 posted on 04/15/2017 2:43:00 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: vespa300

Drama Queenism at its finest. I never did any of those things to you. Name the names of those who did, or stop smearing.


300 posted on 04/15/2017 2:43:44 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught owith pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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