Originally Posted by GUWonder
The country (and officials) are behaving like a bunch of brainless knee-jerks and going off their rocker whenever some individual goes off their rocker yet doesn't pose a clear and imminent danger to the plane.
It's a hell of a lot easier to make that charge from the comfort of your armchair after the fact when the airplane is safely back on terra firma.
On the flipside, it is awfully difficult to read the mind of a disturbed passenger from afar.
Maybe the usual cadre of complainers would get more slack if we all didn't know that they would be the first to be levying charges of incompetence and criminal negligence at the government if and when one of these threats turns out to be real.