Investigations are taking place after last week’s events and arrests are being made. After those attacks we must follow the Rule of Law precisely because that’s what protestors were attempting to subvert when they moved from exercising freedom of speech to physical assault in an attempt to stop the counting of electoral ballots.
Capriciously denying the freedom of travel, without trial, is precisely the mob rule outside of the rule of law that we’re supposed to be pushing back on. The last thing we need is an open-ended response, like a new Patriot Act or limits on freedom of speech, that puts people on the No Fly List for conduct (even criminal conduct) in advance of trial, and when losing the ability to fly on commercial airliners in not proscribed punishment in law.
Individual airlines are free to choose to ban passengers. That appears to be what happened here. Having the government ban travel on all airlines without judicial review is frightening in a democracy.
Interesting piece, even if it's a bit disappointing the story about this guy wasn't true, ha.
Against the implications of the last paragraph quoted above, I despise the idea that businesses have the right to refuse any customer service, a vacuous and violent libertarian principle that some have used to justify Twitter suspending Trump etcetera, could substitute for meaningful politically constituted and fought for freedom.
