I was in high school when the first plane got itself Cubajacked. Had to be about 1958. The Koobans let the guy off and sent everybody back, no harm done, sort of.
I never understood at the time, and never have, why the passengers put up with that krap. It seems it took the Shanksville passengers on 9-11 to wake everybody else up to how sitting on ones butt ain’t gonna work out.
Endlessly fascinating to me that even when passengers saw the ‘jackers using box cutters on the crew they still sat on their hands.
Security at airports? Yup, sure, last time I flew they took a bottle of water away from me. But they still allow box cutters and three inch knives. The stoopid never quits. It should be the airlines doing the screening. Not the Fedgov. If the airlines want a “clean “ load they should make it themselves instead of making everybody else pay for it.
On any given day I have enough weapons on me to finish a fight. But that crowd has no bleeping idea what they’re looking at.
I was in high school when the first plane got itself Cubajacked. Had to be about 1958. The Koobans let the guy off and sent everybody back, no harm done, sort of.
I never understood at the time, and never have, why the passengers put up with that krap. It seems it took the Shanksville passengers on 9-11 to wake everybody else up to how sitting on ones butt ain’t gonna work out.
Endlessly fascinating to me that even when passengers saw the ‘jackers using box cutters on the crew they still sat on their hands.
Security at airports? Yup, sure, last time I flew they took a bottle of water away from me. But they still allow box cutters and three inch knives. The stoopid never quits. It should be the airlines doing the screening. Not the Fedgov. If the airlines want a “clean “ load they should make it themselves instead of making everybody else pay for it.
On any given day I have enough weapons on me to finish a fight. But that crowd has no bleeping idea what they’re looking at.
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Perhaps some people have the wrong idea about what “civilized” really implies. It has nothing to do with sitting on one’s hands when something - anything can be done.
I learned a huge lesson in my 20’s during the last beating my ex husband ever (tried) to give me. Somehow I decided that I wasn’t gonna cry and cower anymore and I fought back. I had nothing to lose and I didn’t care what I used to get the upper hand.
The last I recall was hanging onto his hair and banging his stupid head into the pavement out side….i recall screaming to him that I hated what he had turned me into.
But that’s not the point of this recollection. The point is…FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!. The civilized protect the weak.
The outcome is mostly worth the effort. If terrorists are killing the crew, the chances are you are dead as well…with nothing to lose…do not go out whimpering and cowering or watching as other innocents are killed.
I actually had another experience that tested this view, so I am certain I would not be a watcher, but a fighter. In my old age now, I certainly would not be effective and you know what? That makes no difference at all.
KC