"I doubt that terrorists will be able to take over planes anymore. "
I believe you are correct. I see no reason for people to necessarily have a fearful reaction just because someone who appears to be a Muslim is on a plane.
I cannot remember the last flight I was on that didn't have a few Muslim-looking people on it. All those flights arrived safely.
No doubt now that passengers would react quickly these days, but I disagree with those who are suspicious of everyone who looks different. That's just silly.
If the FBI had taken James' Woods account of the dry-run he witnessed on a flight from Boston to L.A., 9/11 would not have occurred. It's patently ludicrous to call vigilance "silly" when it's the first line of defense against repeating that terrible day.
I also suppose the flight crew over-reacted to the shoe-bomber when they tackled him for trying to light a match. I guess they should have just asked him to put it out since he was obviously trying to flaunt the "No smoking" regulations...
A noble sentiment, and one that the author appears to share. I notice you have gone to great lengths to ensure that you don't prejudge anyone. I laud you for that, but then become very confused when I look at your profile and find the very first thing you write to be:
Everything I need, or am willing, to say, I say in the threads. I will not reveal my identity on Free Republic, due to a certain element here, for the protection of myself and my family. I do not respond to FreepMail.
Kinda makes all that "fairness" talk ring a bit hollow, don't you think....?
Cool, dude. How progressive. No problem here. Everyone knows musicans all have to pee at the same time.
Who was the actor that actually was on pre-hijack runs with the 9/11 terrorists? Chicken Little there as well, I'm sure.
A_R
Were they engaged in chinese firedrills by the bathrooms, in choreographed precision, going throught the obvious motions of assembling something in the bathrooms -- and, violating the "be seated and belted in" directives from the cockpit, in an obvious test of their ability to "do their thing" in the minutes between the announcment and landing?
Are you for real?
These weren't just "Muslim-looking people." Maybe you'd better read the article again.
Did you READ the article?
FOURTEEN MUSLIMS....sharing potty breaks....positioning themselves at key points of the aircraft....
No, I dont think they will take over a plane, I think they will blow it up.
Please assure me that you are not in law enforcement.
i think it's "silly" to make my father miss his plane because his wheelchair needs to be inspected with a fine tooth comb, when the man clearly looks disabled, his ankles are swollen and he can hardly get his ID out of a pocket. All this sillyness while clean shaven arabs calmly walk through security. ugh