On: Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade

[dageshi]

No, this morning they just look incompetent. When was the last time you ever heard of any presidential plane ever being stopped and searched in transit through a foreign airport? Or passage through airspace being denied?

I can't remember it ever happening. Dictators can fly around the world with impunity but they'll contrive to ground the plane of a democratically elected president and search it, for some guy who published a bunch of powerpoint presentations?

And they did all this... with all the consequences it's going to have and they didn't even get Snowden!

[jbooth → dageshi]

Rather than incompetent, it looks brazen to me. They don't do this unless they know they can get away with it, and that makes it scary.

[graedus → dageshi]

Well put, really puts into perspective how incredibly out of proportion and punitive this measure was.