Unlawful imprisonment on airplanes
December 3, 2008 – 8:07 pm by JohnPassengers aboard a TACA International Airlines flight were kept on board the plane for nearly 14 hours on November 30. It was supposed to be 4.5 hours. Radley Balko asks, “How is holding someone in an enclosed airplaine on a tarmac with no circulating air and little food or water against their will for nine hours not unlawful imprisonment?”
Good question. I’ll wager a beer to everyone who reads this that the problem is the law itself; i.e., it isn’t unlawful, because an airline or an airport would never, ever be held accountable for its obviously-wrong actions in a court of law. They would probably hide behind some idiotic FAA (or other, non-U.S.) governmental regulations and say they were only following the rules or taking precautions. Even if they didn’t use that defense or even if that argument weren’t swallowed by a judge or jury, they simply wouldn’t be held accountable. Government legislation and/or the shameful immorality of our justice [sic] system would protect them from any verdict against them. The State gets in the way of justice being served; it doesn’t provide or protect most people’s rights or give them justice.
