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Outrageous and disturbing behavior on the part of Southwest Airlines and the security people. As is too often the case, the details of what transpired are lost,
by drallison 11y ago
Outrageous and disturbing behavior on the part of Southwest Airlines and the security people. As is too often the case, the details of what transpired are lost, but this sort of incident shows how irrational fears are now driving institutional behavior.
- bkovacev 11y agoThis definitely was outrageous - but fear was not the driving force of the institutional behavior - it was the reasonable doubt.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoI read the article and I didn't see any "reasonable" doubt there.
- bkovacev 11y agoSo as a security officer when someone says there might be a bomb - you would not react? That's reasonable?
- bunderbunder 11y agoThe security officer should ask for reason to believe there's a bomb that's a little bit more substantive than, "Dude was speaking a language I don't understand." Otherwise we're at great risk of crossing the line from authority-as-protector-of-the-public to authority-as-weapon-the-public-can-use-against-each-other. See also: swatting.
- ben_jones 11y agoYou take a bunch of low payed people with below average education levels and throw them into a bueracratic system where there only goal is not to get fired and this is what you get. I just hope people blame management as much as they blame the individual workers because in all honestly it's not the individuals who are make these actions.