Rigga, I think that you and a couple of other posters are misinterpreting the postings of the majority.....
No-one on here (with the possible of exception of the one poster who knows him personally) is supporting JD, certainly including myself.
He made a huge error of judgement, he probably has a problem, he is to be punished (jail etc) and will presumably lose his job etc - fine, I have absolutely no problem with that.
All that I, and a number of other contributors if I may presume to speak on their behalf, argue is that the original statement "and never, ever flys [sic]again" is not reasonable - alcoholism is a disease and can be cured (not always by any means, as I well know), and if it is cured then an additional punishment of a life ban is neither fair nor sensible.
This is my last post on the subject, as I am becoming both repetitive and slightly wound up on the subject!