[Dr.Syn]

Again, from Smith’s fantasy world, we are told that, “The citizens of Madrid might be fearful of additional carnage, but they're also sensible and, in a quiet way, defiant.” That’s the first time I have ever seen a thesaurus produce the word “defiant” as a synonym for “surrender”.

Says it all.

[MineralMan]

Blog. Not news.

[Sax]

My coworkers fiance was on that flight. He heard they guy say he had a bomb clear as crystal.

[bronxboy]

Like the article states, getting President Bush is more important than protecting the American people. I do not even get the Atlanta Journal Constitution anymore because of their extreme left wing bias. Down here in Atlanta we call it Al Jerzzera Constitution.

[JamesP81]

If, in fact, the man who was shot was shot because he was mentally ill, then all this equates to is an unfortunate tragedy. If you're an Air Marshal, and some guy starts ranting about having a bomb, you simply don't have the time to determine if he's for real. Something has to be done. As I said, if he really was mentally ill, then it's unfortunate, but you just can't ignore something like that in this day and time.

[Blueflag]

Two weeks ago we kept (baby sat) the daughter of one of the flight attendants ON THAT FLIGHT. I of course will keep names out of this.

The mom, the flight attendant on that plane in the main cabin told us the following that SHE OBSERVED and heard. (paraphrased)

The subject and his wife boarded the plane and took their seats. They were arguing, or discussing in a manner that looked like an argument. The flight attendant observed the subject wearing a backpack, but wearing it backwards -- so that the pouch was facing forwards, on his chest. HE had his arms around the backpack as he sat in his seat and 'argued' with his wife. The flight attendant heard the wife say, several times "you can do this! you can do this!" to which he would respond "no I can't! no I cant'" ... "yes you can!" the wife would respond.

Not long after observing this the man ran forward in the aisle, pushing, shoving, elbowing, forcing his way to the front.

Our friend reports that the first class flight attendants, (at least) one first class passenger and THE FAMs heard him yell he had a bomb.

The FAMs confronted him in the jetway, subject repeated his call that he had a bomb, subject reached into his bag; FAMs shot him dead. Our friend reported that contrary to published reports, the FAMs did not fire '2 or 3 shots' ... she said the guy looked like a pin cushion.

Eye witness report, reported to you second hand.

I wil not supply any more information. ;-)

[mtbopfuyn]

Ya know, I didn't hear him say bomb either. Of course, I wasn't on the plane, but that doesn't matter to the msm.

[johnny7]

Yeah... defiance.

Anybody remember that pic with the balding Frenchman crying as the Nazi's rolled into Paris? That's the “quiet defiance” Smith's talking 'bout.

Once their under-the-boot... let them blubber in their fu_king, quiet defiance!