From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 04:03:39 MST
Mermaid
Sent: 09 February 2004 09:51 AM
<a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/
07/state2118EST0136.DTL">Pilot suggested passengers discuss Christianity
during LA-to-New York flight </a>
An American Airlines pilot flying passengers from Los Angeles to New
York asked Christians on board to identify themselves and then suggested
that non-Christian passengers discuss the faith with them, the airline
confirmed Saturday.
The pilot, whose identity was not released, had been making flight
announcements before he asked that the Christians on board raise their
hands, said American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner.
Wagner said the pilot told airline officials he then suggested the other
passengers use the flight time to talk to the Christians about their
faith.
The pilot later told passengers he himself would be available at the end
of the flight to talk about his first announcement.
Wagner said the airline was investigating the incident.
"It falls along the lines of a personal level of sharing that may not be
appropriate for one of our employees to do while on the job," he said.
The pilot had just returned to work from a weeklong mission trip to
Costa Rica, Wagner said.
[Mermaid] And one wonders why air travel is so dangerous these days..
[Blunderov]
Truly fascinating! Does he have less of a right to speak his own mind
freely if he is working for someone? Or is there always a sort of
Faustian pact implicit in accepting employment?
Without wishing to flog a rather weary horse, I cannot help but remember
that Mussolini conceived of fascism as being strongly affiliated with
big business. Is it possible that government can rely upon industry to
undermine those rights of the citizenry that the government dare not
molest?
What if the pilot had made a political speech instead? If the airline
had the power to forbid such a speech, would it not simultaneously have
the power to insist that the pilot deliver a speech of the airlines own
devising
instead?
I am beginning to suspect that we are in the grip of a terrible
Frankenstein; since the end of the cold war it seems the only ideology
left in the world is 'money'.
Oh, and Islam.
Best Regards
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