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Emil Guillermo: More on the Dao Drag, and United’s Fail; Emil Amok’s Takeout Podcast with the news conference; and a contrary anti-Dao view

Hey, flagellants! Have a good Friday? Did you take your tetanus shot before you got your nails done? (Hey,WWJD?)

In the meantime, before we all resurrect shortly, more on that Dao drag.

People are beginning to take the contrary stand on the David Dao drag story.Essentially, it’s that the airlines have some right to subjugate you based on whether you wish to ride in a flying tube at 34,000 feet going at a faster rate than you could driving a Toyota Prius. You want to fly, you buy the communal agreement. Buckle up and fly. And obey the nice flight attendants. Or else.

The contract is the “great equalizer,” I’m told. We’re all up there whether in first class or coach. You give up rights to fly. That’s the not-so-nice “Mile High Club” where you get effed, but not in the nice way.

Sounds plausibly hardass, and it no doubt will be United’s position to point to the fine print of the “contract” attached to the ticket.

But even at 34,000 feet, you don’t throw common courtesy and respect and dignity out the window.

It’s rarified air up in the clouds. But you don’t lose your humanity. Not for the price of flight.

For more: Go to the blog at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

And click on the link to get the podcast, Emil Amok’s Takeout.

Hear the attorney for Dr.Dao, Tom Demetrio speak at the news conference. Also hear Crystal Pepper, Dao’s daughter.

Or get it right here on the link below.

And if you doubt what you first saw, here’s a collection of the original videos from the Daily Mail:

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Emil Guillermo: Check out Emil Amok’s Takeout…our new podcast

The Donald at the Merkel presser didn’t like being questioned by the Germans.  Just wait till next week when his Obama lie about wiretapping is formally exposed. There is no there there. Just the Donald’s own fake news to distract us from the real issues of Jeff Sessions pre-election actions, and his assault on the poor and middle class through budget cuts and health care decimation.

Have you checked out our new podcast?

It’s right here. And also on the AALDEF blog….

On the travel ban 2.0’s rejection by a federal judge in Hawaii.

The  Justice Dept. is appealing the rejection by a Maryland judge to get it before a different appeals court in Virginia. The whole thing will likely go to the Supreme Court.

Also. an interview with Jenn Fang of reappropriate.co, on Kuchibhotla and whether the South Asian’s killing is a Vincent Chin moment for all Asian Americans.

It’s Emil Amok’s Takeout.

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Emil Guillermo: Has Trump’s Outrageous Finger-pointing backfired?

Donald Trump continues to set a new low in America.

After hurling a damning allegation with zero evidence against Barack Obama– that the former president wiretapped Trump Towers—Trump now says he wants a Congressional investigation.
This is serious stuff. Evidence on no evidence.
But it may backfire.
A call for an investigation may actually expose Trump to far worse.
Rep. Ted Lieu of California released this statement on Sunday: “I fully support the White House’s request for Congressional investigations into President Trump’s explosive claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped. If the claim is true, such a wiretap would mean that an independent FISA Court Judge—appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts—reviewed evidence and found probable cause there were agents of a foreign power at Trump Tower.”

And that of course, would circle back to the reason Trump was trying to distract us all in the first place, that the Trump campaign had contact with the Russian government during the campaign.

Lieu continued: “The American people need to know if Donald Trump or his associates colluded with the Russian government during the election last year. A special prosecutor is clearly needed to immediately review what was learned from any possible wiretaps and any other potential evidence of collusion between Team Trump, Vladimir Putin and his agents. If the wiretapping claim is true, then Congress also needs to investigate if President Trump violated laws related to the leaking of classified information when he disclosed the existence of a secret wiretap via his Twitter account.”
“President Trump’s wiretapping claim points to a serious counterintelligence investigation of him and/or his associates. The multiple lies by Trump and his associates denying contacts with the Russians; the making of a false statement by Attorney General Sessions under oath to Congress about his Russian contacts; and now the explosive revelation of a potential wiretap at Trump Tower suggests that we could be looking at a situation far worse than Watergate.”

Only Trump knows what was behind his Obama wiretap allegations.

Was it a talkshow host’s claim that Trump simply believed and repeated, though again without evidence?

Was it based on a FISA court decision?

None of it is good for Trump, nor our democracy.

Listen to my podcast below, “Emil Amok’s Takeout.” The latest on a DACA recipients reaction after witnessing Trump’s speech before Congress in person!