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He is being held up by you lot as some sort of messiah when, in reality, he has just been a silly little boy.
The classic 'conflict spiral' we hear about in CRM - and then someone does something REALLY dumb.
It's a self fullfilling prophecy with these guys - Leemings and jumping off the cliff comes to mind.
And no-one should forget that the "mainline self interest" QF centric group which runs AIPA has previous form with J* - or has every one forgotten the times not so long past when an AIPA president and his cronies attacked the J* pilot group at every opportunity.
AIPA is using J* pilots as cannon fodder - REAL mates would have told him (JE)to ease off. He might still have had a job today.
Think about it.