Joel Osteen's Wife Assaults/Batters Flight Attendant

[Patrick]

The difference Brad, is that it's not like the Dixie Chicks were trotting about the world preaching about the goodness of No Child Left Behind, the War on Terror, and fealty to the Republican Party and the President. They weren't being phony at all -- just speaking their minds.

On the other hand, we have Mrs. Osteen acting like a spoiled brat on first class on one hand while preaching Christian values, positive thinking, and taking your vitamins on the other hand.

The hypocrisy is tangible on so many levels, in so many places, and with so many people.

Hypocrisy: Someone who claims to be Catholic yet holds views that completely contradict their faith.

The above was meant to be a joke, and was meant to get the attention of a single member of this forum. LOL!

[Midtowner]

Hypocrisy: Someone who claims to be Catholic yet holds views that completely contradict their faith.

You have an ambiguous word here -- "their."

Do I contradict my own faith? Or do I contradict someone else's?

The Catholic church is very accepting of divergent viewpoints as to religion. I do affirm the nicene creed though. The rest is iceing on the cake.

Also, for what it's worth, I'm not a rich preacher. Nor am I the spouse of a rich preacher.

[Patrick]

I'm just pulling your chain. Read my addendum.

[Midtowner]

Patrick, you added that addendum ex post facto, right?

[Patrick]

Patrick, you added that addendum ex post facto, right?

Absolutely! Just like I do when I have to cover myself in a medical record. LOL!

[Midtowner]

Absolutely! Just like I do when I have to cover myself in a medical record. LOL!

Hiding behind that white little line of PLICO, are we?

[rxis]

Whether its first class or not, a wet seat is not acceptable to me.

I'm sure there is more to this story than was told by the news. Who knows what the woman is even going through?
Perhaps she had a break down and reacted irrationally; whatever rational or irrational even is.
As far as what normal people do, I'm sure all of us have done some abnormal things from time to time.

[Midtowner]

That poor tortured woman... Asked to wipe her own seat while the flight attendants were helping others?

In a post 9/11 society, I have a hard time justifying someone tearing to the front of the plane and banging on the cockpit door until they have to be physically removed from the plane.

I don't think "all" or "most" of us have done anything of that nature at any point in our lives.

[rxis]

Wasn't my point but whatever.Your are right! She is one bad momma.
We need to have our elder women drag her into the streets then cut off her hair and beat her.
Then we can exile her.

I don't think she touched the cockpit door. I think she grabbed the attendants wrist at the most. Of course that is not acceptable behavior either.

If someone grabbed my wrist I'd probably have assaulted them. Oh wait..I have done that before and I got in trouble for it. It is much worse to assault someone for grabbing my wrist, at least thats what my principal told me.

[Midtowner]

Wasn't my point but whatever.Your are right! She is one bad momma.
We need to have our elder women drag her into the streets then cut off her hair and beat her.
Then we can exile her.

I don't think she touched the cockpit door. I think she grabbed the attendants wrist at the most. Of course that is not acceptable behavior either.

If someone grabbed my wrist I'd probably have assaulted them. Oh wait..I have done that before and I got in trouble for it. It is much worse to assault someone for grabbing my wrist, at least thats what my principal told me.

According to passenger accounts, the Osteens were sitting in first class. Soon after the plane's door was closed, the FBI says Victoria Osteen was removed following what Continental would call only a disturbance. The Osteens' spokesman confirms it involved a flight attendant, but that's all. However, one passenger tells Eyewitness News she was alerted to the front of the plane when she heard a commotion.

"She violently ran towards the cockpit, scaring everyone around her," said passenger Knicky Van Slyke. "Everyone was terrified about what was going on. And a bunch of flight attendants ran up and had to restrain her. She was banging on the door."

"Of the cockpit?" we asked.

"Yes."

Passengers say Victoria was removed first. Joel and the children followed. Meantime, everyone waited.

"They unloaded all the luggage to get their luggage and deplaned her, Joel, and the kids," said passenger Dawn Dixon.

Passenger Chad Clay said, "They kept telling us they were waiting on some passengers to find their luggage underneath in the plane, and it was going to be delayed for looking for that luggage."

According to the Transportation Security Administration, federal air marshals were never involved. Local authorities also know nothing of this event. Continental would not discuss details.

The Osteens' spokesman denies a physical altercation, denies Victoria ever banged on the cockpit door, and says she left on her own.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?se...cal&id=3741989

Apparently, that's not what the folks on the plane told the press. Also, it's interesting that the spokesperson for the Osteens lied. Who are you going to believe? People with no vested interest in this event who simply saw it happen? Or would you rather believe the person's spokesperson after she did something extremely stupid and potentially criminal?

[rxis]

i don't choose to believe any of them, but I still say lets perform a public humiliation. Lets drag her out of her house.

I wonder what charges I'd be pressed with if I had stood up and punched the lady out when the attendants were trying to restrain her. Like the middle eastern guy in the Jodi FOster movie where her child dissapears.
That was actually the first thing to cross my mind when i began reading this thread.