Soon after this Avelo Airlines deportation (maybe it is legally human trafficking and/or kidnapping) support "contract" was publicly reported, I sent the following to the Connecticut AG via his website. I also forwarded a similar suggestion to the DAGA (Democratic AGs Association) & included that Avelo operates flights into 14 of their states (CA, CT, DE, DC, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, NV, NY, NC, OR, & WA). I haven't heard anything back from any of them.
Maybe some pressure on the AGs from residents of those 14 states would stir some action!?!
"Attorney General Tong --
I am not a resident of Connecticut. However, I saw and was impressed by your interview with Rachel Maddow yesterday regarding Avelo Airlines and the expansion of their activities in (& support from) Connecticut State. Their recent announcement of contracting to provide deportation flight services for the Trump regime (my intentional alternative to "administration") understandably raises concerns about the ethics of CT continuing to support Avelo.
As I watched the coverage, I wondered if there is a more powerful approach to this situation that Connecticut (and other states Avelo flies into) could exercise.
As a non-lawyer who is extremely distressed by the many illegal/unconstitutional actions by the Trump regime, a thought (perhaps fantasy, I admit) that spun in my mind was: What legal recourse does state law enforcement have to stop human trafficking conspirators operating out of their jurisdiction? Perhaps seize physical assets within CT that are used in the trafficking operation? Even if the trafficking occurs elsewhere, perhaps state law would allow such action(?). The expensive (prospective) loss of one or more aircraft could be a powerful persuasion to stop Avelo from supporting the "no-due-process" deportations.
What if Connecticut and multiple other state Attorneys General made known that they will follow the ID of aircraft (and other assets) used in "no-due-process" deportations and will consider the possibility of confiscating any such assets present in their jurisdictions? Could persuade a business to revise their plans, I think.
Keep up the good work you described while talking with Rachel Maddow!"
You can write comments on their website, and I sent a comment telling them I will never set foot aboard one of their planes because of what they are doing, and that I consider them just as evil as the administration that is deporting innocent people with no due process.
Considering all the rest of airline problems caused by President Musk and his minions, I’ve decided that plane travel is out of the question for the next while. Just revise plans and I’m good.
I'm ambivalent about boycotts like this as a strategy, especially in an industry like aviation. While not condoning Avelo transporting shackled deportees, if they were to cancel their contract, the government would easily find another lackey to do its bidding, most likely a private cargo line with no passenger experience and no easily-attacked public face. Meanwhile, a "successful" campaign against a still-unprofitable startup airline like Avelo could easily send it into bankruptcy, to the benefit of no one except the shared-monopoly legacy carriers, who would be delighted to see the failure of an upstart discounter.
It could easily send them into bankruptcy? Good, that's just what they deserve. They are not treating them like passengers, they are shackled into horrible poses and if I understand correctly the staff was told if there was an accident to just save themselves because it would take too long to unload shackeled people from a crashed plane. Another one of Stephen Miller's wet dreams.
I don't recall if the airline was Avelo, but I read an article a month or two ago about a flight attendant who thought she was working for an airline that would be doing specialty group flights, only to find herself working deportation flights. The conditions she described were horrible: those being transported were chained, which would make evacuation in case of an emergency impossible. A child had an asthma attack, and there was insufficient medical aid, although the plane did make a U.S. landing and the child and her mother went to the hospital, although her father was forced to remain behind. The flight attendant was so appalled by the airline's complicity that she quit her job.
Soon after this Avelo Airlines deportation (maybe it is legally human trafficking and/or kidnapping) support "contract" was publicly reported, I sent the following to the Connecticut AG via his website. I also forwarded a similar suggestion to the DAGA (Democratic AGs Association) & included that Avelo operates flights into 14 of their states (CA, CT, DE, DC, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, NV, NY, NC, OR, & WA). I haven't heard anything back from any of them.
Maybe some pressure on the AGs from residents of those 14 states would stir some action!?!
"Attorney General Tong --
I am not a resident of Connecticut. However, I saw and was impressed by your interview with Rachel Maddow yesterday regarding Avelo Airlines and the expansion of their activities in (& support from) Connecticut State. Their recent announcement of contracting to provide deportation flight services for the Trump regime (my intentional alternative to "administration") understandably raises concerns about the ethics of CT continuing to support Avelo.
As I watched the coverage, I wondered if there is a more powerful approach to this situation that Connecticut (and other states Avelo flies into) could exercise.
As a non-lawyer who is extremely distressed by the many illegal/unconstitutional actions by the Trump regime, a thought (perhaps fantasy, I admit) that spun in my mind was: What legal recourse does state law enforcement have to stop human trafficking conspirators operating out of their jurisdiction? Perhaps seize physical assets within CT that are used in the trafficking operation? Even if the trafficking occurs elsewhere, perhaps state law would allow such action(?). The expensive (prospective) loss of one or more aircraft could be a powerful persuasion to stop Avelo from supporting the "no-due-process" deportations.
What if Connecticut and multiple other state Attorneys General made known that they will follow the ID of aircraft (and other assets) used in "no-due-process" deportations and will consider the possibility of confiscating any such assets present in their jurisdictions? Could persuade a business to revise their plans, I think.
Keep up the good work you described while talking with Rachel Maddow!"
I know for sure they operate out of New Haven. That’s why they’re catching hell from the Connecticut AG.
You can write comments on their website, and I sent a comment telling them I will never set foot aboard one of their planes because of what they are doing, and that I consider them just as evil as the administration that is deporting innocent people with no due process.
Considering all the rest of airline problems caused by President Musk and his minions, I’ve decided that plane travel is out of the question for the next while. Just revise plans and I’m good.
The budget bill strips the courts of contempt power. The Roberts Court might uphold it. This would neuter all Norm's efforts.
The Contrarian needs to put all its weight behind stripping out this provision in the Senate. Or the House, if that is still possible.
So, the vulgarian has his own private goon squad with their face coverings (ICE) and now his own private human trafficking airline?
I'm ambivalent about boycotts like this as a strategy, especially in an industry like aviation. While not condoning Avelo transporting shackled deportees, if they were to cancel their contract, the government would easily find another lackey to do its bidding, most likely a private cargo line with no passenger experience and no easily-attacked public face. Meanwhile, a "successful" campaign against a still-unprofitable startup airline like Avelo could easily send it into bankruptcy, to the benefit of no one except the shared-monopoly legacy carriers, who would be delighted to see the failure of an upstart discounter.
Wow. Don’t protest them because someone else will just do instead? Wow. Just wow.
It could easily send them into bankruptcy? Good, that's just what they deserve. They are not treating them like passengers, they are shackled into horrible poses and if I understand correctly the staff was told if there was an accident to just save themselves because it would take too long to unload shackeled people from a crashed plane. Another one of Stephen Miller's wet dreams.
I don't recall if the airline was Avelo, but I read an article a month or two ago about a flight attendant who thought she was working for an airline that would be doing specialty group flights, only to find herself working deportation flights. The conditions she described were horrible: those being transported were chained, which would make evacuation in case of an emergency impossible. A child had an asthma attack, and there was insufficient medical aid, although the plane did make a U.S. landing and the child and her mother went to the hospital, although her father was forced to remain behind. The flight attendant was so appalled by the airline's complicity that she quit her job.
Only something with a penis would write this.
Traitor.