Activist court overturns air passenger rights law

Looks like we've got some more right-wing activist judges for the impeachment block.

The state of New York had a new law that protected the rights of airline passengers. Under this bold new law - the first of its kind in America - airlines were required to provide food, water, clean johnnypots, and fresh air to passengers stranded in the many planes delayed on the ground.

But the right-wing Air Transport Association of America, which represents major airlines, sued over this law. Instead of obeying the law, it was easier to sue, I guess. And why not, because in BushAmerica, courts can usually be counted on to do Coprorate (sic) America's bidding. True to form, a federal court dutifully complied with the ATAA's shrill cries: Today the 2nd U.S. Circus (sic) Court of Appeals overturned New York's law, saying it interfered with federal law.

You're backwards, asshats. Federal law is illegally interfering with state law. In our constitutional system, the states have dibs when the states have stronger consumer protection laws.

The court says only the federal government has the authority to regulate air travel. Wrong. The states have the constitutional authority to enact tougher regulations. In fact, they have a duty, because the federal government has intentionally neglected its own duty.

New York really wasn't even regulating air transport. Sitting in a plane on the runway isn't air transport, because for it to be transport, it has to be moving.

What's the point in even dividing the country into states if an overbearing federal government can just annul everything the states do?

By legislating from the bench, the unelected court has chosen to fight the people, and has sin in its heart. Congress must step in and regulate the airlines or pass a law restoring the states' power to do so. And it must initiate impeachment proceedings against the judges who made the nefarious choice to side against the people.

New York has a duty to ignore the court's rogue decision. The ruling was not based on constitutional law or the principles of a federal republic but on hokey corporate-centered activism, so it is not truly legally binding. If the Bush regime tries to enforce the court's will, it won't exactly win over the hearts and minds of the people. America is supposed to be a union of states based on the people-powered rule of law, not a one-party empire that makes up the law as it goes along.

The state might not have been prodded to pass a law outlining passenger rights if not for the airlines' refusal to do anything about the delayed flights. Maybe the airlines should clean up their own front yard instead of crying like big babies when state legislators have to do it for them.

If I was stranded on the runway for 3 hours with no toilet, I guess I'd have to turn the seat into a toilet.

(Source: http://www.kypost.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=ee214b9c-87c1-45ad-a9d9-abdd0a22a579)