That Lucky Doctor Who Got Kicked Off that United Airlines Flight

April 11, 2017

Darn.  Why couldn’t that happen to me.  That doctor who was beaten bloody and knocked unconscious before being dragged off an airplane like a hogtied cow on his way to being branded by the Chicago police is about to become a very wealthy man.  Logic suggests that he will sue United Airlines, the Chicago Police Department, O’Hare Airport, all the flight attendants and the two pilots, and the gate agent, for starters.  All of them conspired to brutalize him for objecting to their unilateral reneging on his contract with United Airlines.  They decided that calling in the Chicago cops to beat him to a bloody, unconscious pulp was cheaper than offering him (or anyone else on the flight) an extra few hundred bucks for his seat.

If you would like to know what daily life was like in say Bulgaria, Romania, or the Soviet Union itself in the 50s an 60s, just book a flight on any American airline.  They will ask you for your papers, frisk you, maybe even force you to strip naked for an anal search, while someone constantly shouts directions in your face:  “Empty your pockets!  No belts! No shoes!  No liquids!  Shut up and move!  Stand right here!  Hold your arms out while I grope you!  Get in line!  Put your bags over here!  Take off that coat!  No sweaters!  Hold your hair up, lady! I’m going to put my hands in your pants!  Spread your legs!  Are you wearing a wired bra?!  What’s that medication in your luggage?!  Stop and let the German Shepherd sniff you!   Hold your hands out!   Stand here!”

Then, once on the plane, you are treated like an imbecilic child with loud speakers broadcasting government-mandated instructions on how to buckle a seatbelt and read an “exit” sign.  “Push that bag in!  No bags in the front row!  Turn that device off!  No phones!  Read these emergency instructions!  Put that dog under the seat in front of you!  Someone may trip over him if we crash!”

On second thought, I doubt that even the East German Stasi were that annoying.

Meanwhile, the Lunatic Left will blame the incident on Donald Trump.  He encourages the mistreatment of non-whites, they will say.  Since much of America has become a society of morons, millions of people will believe this.

“Fly the friendly skies . . . . of United . . . . . . “

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Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.