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How to prepare to stop a flight if it includes deportees?

Ok, so, question for the collective wisdom of social media (read: mastodon):

Suppose the current administration actually does start putting deportees on commercial flights instead of chaining them up on military transports. How should I, as clueless passenger, prepare to make some good trouble?

I guess I should start by assuming I’m going to be arrested, too? Or at least ejected from the current flight?

So, I guess, before flying…

  • Speak to an attorney?
  • Make an earlier flight reservation so I have time for these shenanigans and still make my meeting or sales call or whatever?
  • Set aside some bail money? Or speak to a bail bonding agency to get some ducks in a row?
  • What else? I really am clueless about how to help here.

And as part of my agitation…

  • Ask for documentation as to why they’re being deported? How should I read it? What should I look for?

Wait, maybe I should google. Ha!

https://www.gettingthevoiceout.org/how-to-stop-a-deportation/

https://www.antiatlas-journal.net/anti-atlas/05-brewer-how-to-stop-a-deportation-flight/

Ugh, too much to read.

[Update: this over-protected, white-bread man is probably never going to be on a flight to Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, etc. (maybe Costa Rica), so… never mind!]

The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral – Hapgood

«What is harder to understand is how in nearly 25 years of the web, when people have told us what they THINK about local subsidies approximately one kajillion times we can’t find one — ONE! — syllabus-ready treatment of the issue.»

https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/#:~:text=What%20is%20harder%20to%20understand%20is%20how%20in%20nearly%2025%20years%20of%20the%20web%2C%20when%20people%20have%20told%20us%20what%20they%20THINK%20about%20local%20subsidies%20approximately%20one%20kajillion%20times%20we%20can%E2%80%99t%20find%20one%20%E2%80%94%20ONE!%20%E2%80%94%20syllabus%2Dready%20treatment%20of%20the%20issue.

Of course, “can’t find” isn’t quite the same as “doesn’t exist” (unless you ask me again in an hour), but… good point.

(In case it’s not obvious, “local subsidies” is not the topic here.)


I really need to this essay on

(I might be misusing “ontology”. Oh well.)

Or… maybe I’m ok, after all:

«Ontologies. Ontology is the newest label to be attached to some knowledge organization systems. The knowledge-management community is developing ontologies as specific concept models. They can represent complex relationships among objects, and include the rules and axioms missing from semantic networks. Ontologies that describe knowledge in a specific area are often connected with systems for data mining and knowledge management.»

https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/1knowledge/#:~:text=Ontologies.%20Ontology,knowledge%20management.

Found via Google search «is there an “-ology” for knowledge organization and management?»

Oh my goodness, there are at least two organizations dealing with this: