[E. Pluribus Unum]

Some of us HAVE to fly... and I for one will never give into a band of terrorists.

That is the entire G..D...ED point!

IT WAS NOT NECESSARY TO TURN AIRPORTS INTO CONCENTRATION CAMPS AFTER 911.

911 will never happen again, because American passengers WILL NOT ALLOW IT.

All that was necessary was to put impenetrable doors on cockpits.

Instead the federal government created a make-work program for minimum-IQ gestapo to root through peoples' underwear and randomly treat them like criminals because we can't actually target people most likely to be terrorists.

Enjoy your body cavity searches.

[USF]

"All that was necessary was to put impenetrable doors on cockpits.

How would something like that stop another Bojinka plot?

[Starrgaizr]

All that was necessary was to put impenetrable doors on cockpits.

Unless the pilot is a bad guy.

[Ciexyz]

I wouldn't get on a friggin' airplane even if one of my relatives in another city dies.

[Theo]

You're committing a straw man fallacy. The guy made a threat, a very serious one, indicating that he had tried to bomb the plane, and perhaps the bomb was still on the plane and was about to go off. That's the point of this story, and the reason he's in trouble.

This story has nothing to do with "concentration camps." You can talk about "concentration camps" on a relevant thread, and I might even agree with you about the ridiculous "security" perpetrated in airports. But this thread is about a guy who made a bomb threat in a very ostentatious manner.

[Smokin' Joe]

Americans should know the score now, anyway. So much for complacency and non-involvement. "Just sit still and let the exxperts handle it." simply doesn't cut it any more.

Regain control of the aircraft before it enters airspace over a populated area or choice target or GET SHOT DOWN BY ONE OF OUR PLANES.

IMHO People will no longer sit by and wait for the situation to be resolved: Try or die.