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End Airplane Terrorism (Separate baggage) (Retread trolls to be towed 500 yards aft)
Robert Jones | 8/13/06 | Robert Jones

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.


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To: robert jones

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.


41 posted on 08/13/2006 9:37:44 AM PDT by 2Fro (Quintessential Thread Killer)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
The only thing that is going to work is a Certified Passenger Program. You submit to a full background check, have an interview with DHS, and get a smartcard that you use to gain access through security gates, using an electronic scan of your thumbprint.

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!

42 posted on 08/13/2006 9:40:45 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: calex59
2.) Airlines are private entities and therefore can discriminate agaisnt (sic) whom ever (sic) they choose. They are not bound by the 1st amendment. The 1st applies to laws passed by congress (sic) not policies set by private businesses.

You are grossly misinformed! Study up!

43 posted on 08/13/2006 9:43:57 AM PDT by 2Fro (Quintessential Thread Killer)
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To: Dog Gone
How do you propose to identify a person's religion? And then how do you plan to constitutionally discriminate against members of that religion?

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.

44 posted on 08/13/2006 9:47:27 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Dog Gone
Yeah, that makes sense. Flying two planes to the same destination HAS to be cheaper than flying just one.

A little learning is a dangerous thing...

45 posted on 08/13/2006 9:48:39 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: calex59

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.


46 posted on 08/13/2006 9:49:14 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: SamAdams76

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.


47 posted on 08/13/2006 9:57:38 AM PDT by 2Fro (Quintessential Thread Killer)
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To: robert jones; timpad; TBarnett34; MeekOneGOP; PetroniDE; Lady Jag; mhking; glock rocks; ...
Can I just sleep in today?

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48 posted on 08/13/2006 10:02:26 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: calex59
3.) I don't recognize islam as a religion but a death cult, so even if congress passed a law forbidding the practice of islam in the US I would be happy with it.

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.

49 posted on 08/13/2006 10:05:23 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Dog Gone
Islam is clearly a religion. It may be a horrible one, but it is one. The fact that you deny it is pretty irrelevant.

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?

50 posted on 08/13/2006 10:12:23 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: robert jones

How about all Arab or Arab looking passangers fly in seperate planes pioloted by Arabs.


51 posted on 08/13/2006 10:13:42 AM PDT by skimask (People who care what you do don't matter.......People who matter don't care what you do.)
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To: robert jones
One way to end terrorism on airplanes would be to have separate planes for baggage.

Often as not my luggage goes on a separate plane, . . ., to a different city in a different state.

52 posted on 08/13/2006 10:17:18 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Publius6961
It may be clear to you, but not to me. That you are ignorant is equally irrelevant.

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?

53 posted on 08/13/2006 10:24:36 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: All

Darn! IBafterTZ!
Thats ok, though, still funny!


54 posted on 08/13/2006 10:25:22 AM PDT by carmenbmw (My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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To: skimask
How about all Arab or Arab looking passangers fly in seperate planes pioloted (sic) by Arabs.

How about, ". . . piloted by Arabs without benefit of flight training?"

55 posted on 08/13/2006 10:33:57 AM PDT by 2Fro (Quintessential Thread Killer)
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To: jdm
Surly you can be serious?
56 posted on 08/13/2006 10:40:00 AM PDT by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: robert jones
Click the Pic to see the origin of the Spork Weasel

57 posted on 08/13/2006 10:44:01 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: DocRock

LOL, first time I've seen a picture of one. ;-)


58 posted on 08/13/2006 10:45:05 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: robert jones
Wow, why didn't I think of that....

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59 posted on 08/13/2006 10:47:15 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: Dog Gone
They are pretty rare and I would never check my Spork Weasel carrier on another flight. No Way!


60 posted on 08/13/2006 10:49:02 AM PDT by DocRock
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