[steve-b]

I wonder how hard it would be for terrorists to circumvent the system. Obtain a Low Risk Flyer card and database status through bribery, insider contacts, forgery, etc. In the end I suspect that a couple hundred American passengers, who've already suffered a massive invasion of their privacy, will still wind up having to tackle several more of these b@st@rds right outside the cockpit door.

That's why my suggestion of passing out blackjacks would do a thousand times more to enhance real security than this foolishness.

[Brian Allen]

<< That's why my suggestion of passing out blackjacks would do a thousand times more to enhance real security than this foolishness. >>

Blackjacks? For Americans? Are you kidding?

We Americans, unique in all of Human History, have a Declaration of Independence, a Constitution and a Bill of Rights which includes the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The one, that is, that forbids the feral gummint from interfering with every American's God-given Right to own and to bear arms.

Get the gummint the Hell out of the way, let us all exercise our right to be armed if and how and when we feel like it and then let's see how many cravenly-gutless, intellectually and morally bankrupt, sexually repressed and depraved, psychopathologically-hesperophobic, false-fuehrer-following, moon-rock-walloping, death-cultist bloody murderers hijack how many more of our airliners.

[Lazamataz]

That's why my suggestion of passing out blackjacks would do a thousand times more to enhance real security than this foolishness.

I can see how this might help.