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Old 04-16-2008, 03:29 PM
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I sat down to ponder over the incident that has happened. While i'm so bitter about it.Some issues have not been clear from the statements.
Firstly, the fact that the British press has remained quite is questionable.Back to the main issue,i strongly feel the 135 passengers were wrong to have agreed to being removed from the aircraft by 1 man on the basis of constituting disruption. Its also baffling that no other person has come out to narrate the story of the incident. So far we only have that of the complainant.

Also in this day of technology, if such an incident occur, there would have been a video recording. I dont want to believe that none of the 136 passengers on board have a video recording equipment.At least our modern day mobile phones would record at least 5 mins of play. This would have been supportive evidence of what happened which would have made international headlines. If i was on board, i would have quickly recorded the said maltreatment of the deportee and perhaps the argument that conspired.

Finally,the complainant is said to be British born and he was handcuffed for leading a protest. I beleive the justification for putting someone in handcuffs is if the individual is violent or is involved in criminal activities. The fact that he is British makes it worse. For me there is no justification for putting him in cuffs and if he was handcufed, this is an infringement of his rights and thus he has the right to sue the British Government for infringement of his rights as a citizen, the police for maltreatment and manhandling and the British Airways for the ban and breach.
The Human Rights community should be notified.

This is my opinion on the whole situation.
I still feel sad about the development though
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