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Posted on 08/13/2006 8:39:23 AM PDT by robert jones
One way to end terrorism on airplanes would be to have separate planes for baggage. With a minimal crew and no one else on board, an inexpensive baggage plane would not be a very attractive terrorist target. Without baggage the passenger plane would be as safe from internal attack as possible. Terrorists could only sneak on board with nonmetallic objects that they have swallowed or that they can, um, stuff up their rectums.
A simple-minded implementation of such a scheme would be to halve the number of passenger flights, an inconvenience that many would put up with for the sake of eliminating the inconvenience currently attending the flying experience. Our free enterprise system, however, would surely find improvements.
Thinking outside the box (Boeing engineers probably already are working on new aircraft designs):
1) Put all the baggage in a glider to be towed behind the passenger plane and piloted by a robot.
2) Put all the baggage and the Muslim-looking passengers in a glider to be towed behind the passenger plane and piloted by a robot.
3) Prohibit all carry-on items, put all baggage in a separate plane as proposed, and sell the present carry-on overhead luggage space and the baggage hold of the passenger plane as cheap seats, akin to the "steerage" class of ocean liners a hundred years ago. The separate baggage plane could be much smaller, more efficient and could carry regular air cargo.
4) One absolutely positive benefit: No longer will the muslim-islamist-arab Pilgrims be able to board aircraft with their two steamer trunks and assorted sacks and packages as carry-on baggage and try to stuff all of them in the overhead bins, while denying any knowledge of the English language and completely disrupting both the passenger boarding and exiting process.
The immediate reaction, primarily by the sandmaggots, would be "violation of rights!"
Never mind that it can be entirely voluntary. Don't want the exposure? Find some other way to travel and don't saddle the rest of us with that trillion$ expense!
You are grossly misinformed! Study up!
Easy. Make the obvious official: islam is not a religion. At least not the manifestation of the liller aspects of the culture.
Why can't child molesters create a religion and announce themselves prosecution proof? Prescuting them afterwards could be construed as "discrimination against members of that religion", but the silliness of the statement is self evident.
That there are 1.2 billion members of the killer cult does not make the logic any less silly.
A little learning is a dangerous thing...
Nice try, but even if we didn't impose an unconstitutional federal rule to mandate what you want, current federal law would still prohibit a private airline from discriminating based on religious affiliation.
Islam is clearly a religion. It may be a horrible one, but it is one. The fact that you deny it is pretty irrelevant.
Great minds think alike! :>)
Your #21 was not posted when I started my #41. I did not plagiarize your post—I’m just kinda slow and methodical this morning.
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I have been searching for years a reference I read once of either a state law, or a federal law in the late 19th century making islam illegal. And the statement was that the law was never repealed. In less "enlightened", but also less PC times, the obvious was not as difficult to achieve.
It may be clear to you, but not to me.
That you are ignorant is equally irrelevant.
What about the new cannibalism-child molesting religion that we can create? Once we have a critical number of members must we also be untouchable? Or do you get the final word?
How about all Arab or Arab looking passangers fly in seperate planes pioloted by Arabs.
Often as not my luggage goes on a separate plane, . . ., to a different city in a different state.
Where did that come from?
You are certainly free to disdain a religion, but to assert that Islam is not a religion is ridiculous.
How do you define a religion? What you believe?
Darn! IBafterTZ!
Thats ok, though, still funny!
How about, ". . . piloted by Arabs without benefit of flight training?"
LOL, first time I've seen a picture of one. ;-)
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