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Fly the felonious skies with Boeing

“Manufacturing conditions that led to the two 737 MAX disasters and the Alaska Airlines accident, continue to exist, putting the public at risk.” – Former Boeing manager Edward Pierson

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No one seems to mind boarding a plane built by a criminal organization – even after a couple crashes that killed 346 people and a fuselage panel that stupidly blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight.

Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a felony, but so what? The aerospace and defense giant has been a convicted corporate criminal for decades.

Most people don’t remember the conviction Boeing racked up in 1989 for breaching national security, or its other past convictions.

Soon, most fliers won’t remember the conspiracy fraud charge that Boeing is copping to now – related to two 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.

Boeing cheats, and it kills people from time to time, but it has never had to worry about showering in front of convicted rapists, cleaning jailhouse latrines or eating rotten penitentiary food.

It won’t emerge from its sentence with face tattoos.

Boeing is too big to jail.

They don’t make prisons big enough for Boeing. (Illustration credit: AI generated.)

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