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hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:20 PM Mar 2012

Why was Clayton Osborn arrested but George Zimmerman wasn't?

Clayton Osborn is the Jet Blue pilot who had some sort of mental breakdown the other day:

The jetBlue pilot who flipped out at 35,000 feet was suffering from some kind of religious mania, according to an FBI affidavit released Wednesday.

“Osbon started trying to correlate completely unrelated numbers like radio frequencies,” the FBI said.

A sudden fixation on numbers and patterns is a common sympton of schizophrenia.

Osbon, who was hospitalized, was formally charged Wednesday with interfering with a flight crew.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jetblue-pilot-ranting-sins-flipped-35-000-feet-fbi-article-1.1052310#ixzz1qXUDneiC

A pilot who by all accounts seems to have been a nice guy apparently has a severe mental health crisis and he gets arrested. A habitual troublemaker shoots down a kid and he walks.

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Why was Clayton Osborn arrested but George Zimmerman wasn't? (Original Post) hedgehog Mar 2012 OP
You know... butterfly77 Mar 2012 #1
He looks pretty old to be having his first psychotic break. Ian David Mar 2012 #2
Osborn didn't have cops to cover for him. TheWraith Mar 2012 #3
To say nothing of the Occupiers who were exercising First Amendment JDPriestly Mar 2012 #4
 

butterfly77

(17,609 posts)
1. You know...
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:25 PM
Mar 2012

if you mention anything that goes with 911 that is it,the right wing loses their minds..

One of the blonde bimbos from FOX Laurie Du or whatever her damn name is has been making the rounds with the rightwing talking points and pretending as though she saved the world -----!

Ian David

(69,059 posts)
2. He looks pretty old to be having his first psychotic break.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:29 PM
Mar 2012

IIRC, it can happen at any age, but 18-30 is the usual range.

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
3. Osborn didn't have cops to cover for him.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:58 PM
Mar 2012

That said, I have the sneaking suspicion we're going to find out in Osborn's case that he was on something, either legal or illegal.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
4. To say nothing of the Occupiers who were exercising First Amendment
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 05:26 PM
Mar 2012

rights and taking the First Amendment just as literally as the Supreme Court took it in Citizens United.

Two standards of justice depending . . . .

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