Airlines - the newest members of the international community of nations.

Steve Schear schear at lvcm.com
Thu Oct 18 15:36:11 PDT 2001


At 03:06 PM 10/18/2001 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote:
>From:
>http://cgi.newcity.com/exitlog/frameset.php?close=http://www.citypaper.net/a
>rticles/101801/news.godfrey.shtml&back=http://www.newcity.com
>
>"'When a passenger passes through security, it is under the jurisdiction of
>the airline. We dont get involved,' he says, adding that stories like
>Godfreys are likely to become increasingly common."
>
>Wow, I didn't realize airlines had law enforcement powers and
>"jurisdictions" akin to those of state actors.

They don't, they're just enforcing their property rights ;-)

steve







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