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IVANA DESERVES PROPS, NOT CUFFS
Published On 01-02-2010 , 6:45 PM
WITH Nigerian terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, padding his undies with enough explosives to take down American Airlines flight 231 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, I would have thought Ivana Trump would have been seen as heroic when, just a day after this incident, she acted to protect her fellow first-class passengers on a flight from Palm Beach International Airport to New York City.
Not quite the case. Ivana, unlike the passenger on the Amsterdam flight who tackled Umar and is now being heralded as a person exhibiting a high level of personal responsibility, she's being called an erratic troublemaker.
This 60-year-old socialite did what many irresponsible citizens fail to do whether riding on a plane, shopping in a supermarket or dining in a restaurant and, for this, security removed her from the flight. Ivana reportedly screamed at some misbehaving children who were running in the aisle of the plane as though, I suspect, they might do at a local park or in their own back yards.
Further, it is said that she also cursed at a baby who continually cried - crying perhaps due to a load of human explosives packed in the underwear, which the parents neglected to detect much like the lack of security commitment in Amsterdam.
While "childhood terrorist" are in no way as dangerous or as menacing as those, like Umar, who act with the intent of taking out human life, they most certainly should be contained, watched and monitored as they are, indeed, a threat to a person's peace and tranquility.
I do not understand why Ivana was escorted from the airplane and not the parents and their unruly children. News reports say Ivana was asked to calm down but instead she became belligerent.
Oh!
Belligerence should not trump unruly children. Why didn't the other passengers join the responsible one in trying to make the flight a peaceful one? Why didn't the flight attendant do something about children using the aisle as their personal playground? With or without explosives concealed in its underwear, a crying baby is a heck of an attack on a passenger's right to the pursuit of peaceful flight.
Before I'm accused of telling only half a story, let me add that Ivana, the ex-wife of Donald Trump, also cursed and screamed at crew members and other passengers and she turned down the opportunity to voluntarily get off the plane.
I wasn't there. I didn't witness the incident, but the news reports haven't offered up enough to convince me that the culprit in this scenario was the somebody who was "angered," the descriptive word others used, by bad kids.
It's high time airport officials do their real job of sniffing out terrorists who board planes with the intent of bringing them down and stop roughing up old women who don't like crying babies and misbehaving kids. I hope Ms. Ivana sues the pants off of all those airline employees and security folk who treated her with such disrespect for simply having acted in a responsible manner.
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| | 1. | I read your blog each week and generally agree with your parenting advice. I appreciate your belief that parents should be held responsible for their children's actions and work diligently to do whatever it takes to teach their children to become good, upstanding adults.
However, I have to take exception with your take on Irana Trump's behavior on an airplane where unruly children and crying babies were on board. I, of course, wasn't there, and I don't know the whole story. However, from what I read it sounds to me like Ms. Trump acted very childishly while attempting to gain her rightful peace and tranquility.
Had Ms. Trump attempted, unsuccessfully, to speak with the parents and/or flight personnel, in a calm, polite manner, prior to becoming belligerent? Were other passengers equally upset?
It's rather unsettling to me that you would put unruly children in the same category as a radical with explosives . I'd say there's a big difference between the two.
To end your blog with with the idea that Ms. Trump sue the airlines for their treatment of her is equally upsetting to me. Had she acted in a more respectful manner toward those on the plane, I don't believe the situation would have escalated to the point that it did.
- by Beverly, 01-04-2010, 12:33 PM
| | 2. | Ivana's problem really comes down to this: "responsible" officials are afraid to do anything to the offending parents; they find it more politically correct to further assault the victim.
You have written about similar incidents in the past, and your position is clear; stop the offenders, not the offended. It is well past time that the perps be reined in rather than the assaulted individuals.
Little kids have no business ruling the airplane aisles, and parents need to accept responsibility and correct the problem their infants are squalling about.
I may well have done the same thing she did if the flight attendants didn't do their job of controlling passengers in the airplane.
But political correctness wins almost every time. That's why this country is in such turmoil.
- by WD, 01-03-2010, 9:05 AM
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