I have Facebook friends linking an article about how what's wrong with the United Airlines incident is what's wrong with America. As anti-corporate as I am, my first inclination was to disagree here. It refers to a case in which United Airlines realized it needed space on a passenger flight in order to emergency-transport its own employees; offered $800 plus a free room at a nice hotel to anyone who volunteered to be moved to a flight the next afternoon; then, when no one accepted, it called in police force to eject randomly-chosen passengers (including a surgeon who had an operation to do the next morning).
My immediate feeling is that while the resort to police is a problem, I've been