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United Airlines Suspends Pilot for Israel-Hamas War Comments
United Airlines came under fire this week after one of its pilots expressed praise for the October 7 attacks in Israel. Although Mossallam created this post on October 7, his views were only well-publicized once Stop Antisemitism shared screenshots of his Facebook post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on November 20. On November 21, a spokesperson from United said that the pilot was removed from service with pay and the airline will look further into the situation (aeroxplorer.com) More...
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I agree, we do have freedom of speech, however there are consequences to what we say. Freedom of speech is not a free pass to say anything we want with no repercussions.
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What’s the point of having a constitution if it doesn’t apply everywhere? You live in a Republic so the Rule Of Law over rides everything else…or at least it is supposed to.
I think what @Harry and @Yehonatan are trying to explain is that freedom of speech gives you the right to make a statement that disgraces your employer, but your employer has the right to fire you.
What's the point of having a constitution if you don't read the actual text. The first amendment begins: "CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW"
See, unlike most other countries, our constitution does not grant rights. It recognizes that your rights came from god, from your humanity, and predated this nation. That's pretty cool! The point of OUR constitution was to prevent the government from unlimited power and scope by default.
Contrary to its name, the 'Bill of Rights' does NOT grant any rights. It is actually a list of RESTRICTIONS.... within which the government must remain. In fact the entire purpose of the constitution was to set limits and boundaries ON THE GOVERNMENT.
Our constitution was revolutionary for its time in this regard, and still is.
United Airlines, is not the government. So the constitution does not limit United Airlines. But they an certainly be sued for their idiocy, and boycotted.
See, unlike most other countries, our constitution does not grant rights. It recognizes that your rights came from god, from your humanity, and predated this nation. That's pretty cool! The point of OUR constitution was to prevent the government from unlimited power and scope by default.
Contrary to its name, the 'Bill of Rights' does NOT grant any rights. It is actually a list of RESTRICTIONS.... within which the government must remain. In fact the entire purpose of the constitution was to set limits and boundaries ON THE GOVERNMENT.
Our constitution was revolutionary for its time in this regard, and still is.
United Airlines, is not the government. So the constitution does not limit United Airlines. But they an certainly be sued for their idiocy, and boycotted.
Correct. Or put another way:
The Bill of Rights is not a list of things the Government allows you to do.
It's a list of things the Government isn't allowed to do.
In my opinion, if your "private company" gets funding from the Government and is obliged to create company policy according to government guidelines, it is, in effect, part of the Government and should be treated as such.
This argument of "It's a private company, they can do what they want" is all fine and good until you realize they aren't private at all. We found this out over the last couple of years with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, all of which were secretly collaborating with government agencies to determine who should be censored or deplatformed for speech the government didn't like -- and getting paid to do so.
The Bill of Rights is not a list of things the Government allows you to do.
It's a list of things the Government isn't allowed to do.
In my opinion, if your "private company" gets funding from the Government and is obliged to create company policy according to government guidelines, it is, in effect, part of the Government and should be treated as such.
This argument of "It's a private company, they can do what they want" is all fine and good until you realize they aren't private at all. We found this out over the last couple of years with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, all of which were secretly collaborating with government agencies to determine who should be censored or deplatformed for speech the government didn't like -- and getting paid to do so.
Maybe we should see the pilot's names on our tickets, so we have a chance to google them before we get locked into a tube they alone control for 3 hours.
Why?
You don't trust your pilots?
You don't trust your pilots?
