I think we're kinda going off the beaten path here as we're missing the whole point as to WHY mr delaney was escorted off airline property in the first place. Butch, I think your examples are a bit extreme and it makes it seem like walking into an airport is like walking into some sorta nazi regime, where are all of our freedoms can get taken away if we sneeze at a person wrong. Since you've never been on the receiving end of being escorted from an airport, we can consider most of your points moot. I know a few members of NY/NJ port authority, and they are not at the beck and call of airline employees because if that were the case you'd see lines of officers escorting people to jail. From my understanding (and this come from the mouths of the officers) if a person acts in a threatning manner, catches a temper tantrum, threaten physical harm to anyone, or if a person behaves in a manner that is unsafe to themselves and the persons around them, then and only then is an officer called. We don't know the extent of Delany's case, we only know his side of the story, but if it got to the point that an officer was called, then something went down that warranted it. Why was the officer called in? Because mr delany persisted with the agents that he deserved a hotel for his own lateness, which can be deduced just by reading his own complaint.
Its true we give up some of our constitutional rights i.e. our right to privacy as our personals are looked through, or even our freedom of speech (can't say, even in a sarcastic manner that you have a bomb) but that has nothing to do with the airline industry, more so from our goverment. The airlines doesn't search our bags, or makes us empty our wallets, that's TSA. When we come back to the US from another country, we have to deal with custom agents. The airlines don't own the airport that we walk through. For example JFK, LGA, and EWR (Which are in my area) It's the port athority of NY and NJ that runs the show, the airlines lease the space. The airline agents don't have dogs that sniff you down for drugs, or make your go through random checks because of 4 little letters on a ticket, and the airline agents don't escort you out of a building for being rowdy. Sorry butch, but the airline industry in no way shape or form suspending our constitutional rights, our goverment is the one that does that to us. and by us stepping foot inside the airport, we agree to it. Not voluntarily, but we do.
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