Posted on 07/22/2004 10:46:10 PM PDT by dixie sass
Pardon?
None of the articles that I have read have given me any indication that the aviation industry is doing anything other than trying to appease those who harmed us.
It scares me and it makes me very angry especially after seeing snippets of the tapes from the surveillance cameras on 9/11.
If anyone is to blame for the tragedy that befell us on 9/11, it is airport security not doing their jobs.
Don't discount it. A plane load of hostages is priceless to them, especially with children on board.
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Someone, somewhere had better care.
This country went PC mad when you and I were trying to get "what's 'is face" out of office. We've just put PCism at the bottom of the list of things to correct. I think it should now be at the top.
We have people going to the Olympics, a lot of young people flying on commercial jets...
Don't you think that would be a prime target - I bet they do. I'm worried about what could happen in Athens or on the way to Athens.
I hope that the people that load the luggage, service the plane and also fly them are not planning on using our athletes.
If you do a search on FR for this article "Terror in the Skies. Again?" and "Part two. Terror in the Skies", you will read of a real incident.
Because we are America and that is what we are about. Freedom to travel, to worship, to do anything we want and we extend that curtesy to others instead of watching our backs.
Thanks for the link. A little tongue in cheek but he does point out that something was in the air, doesn't he.
I wonder what the physical signs would be?
I don't, do you?
I couldn't agree with you more.
That means that our air-traffic system was expecting trouble. But rather than land the plane in Las Vegas or Omaha, it was allowed to continue on to Los Angeles without interruption, as if everything were hunky-dory on board. It certainly wasn't. If this had been the real thing, and the musicians had instead been terrorists, nothing was stopping them from taking control of the plane or assembling a bomb in the restroom. Given the information they were working with at the time, almost everyone should have reacted differently than they did.
Jacobsen's fear was quite natural under these circumstances, and she has done us a service by pointing out some egregious shortfalls in our airline security. Danke Schoen, Darling. Let's hope the right people are listening.
I think you missed this part of the article.
I don't think you can cite Bush for this. I would start with Minetta and the people in State. Also your ill trained security personnel.
I hope they do try it again. There will be a handfull of terrorists facing 100 self appointed air marshalls knowing they have nothing to lose. They'll know what Custer felt like.
I would be willing to bet that there were people on that flight who have at one time or another made that same statement and then just sat there paralyzed with fear.
With 9-11 the terrorists violated a social contract. It used to be that in a hi-jacking the terrorists had a beef with one govt or another and there was a good chance that you would simply be inconvenienced for a day or two. that contract is now null and void. Richard Reid was the first to find that out.
One person might feel intimidated, but in a group, an otherwise timid person is going to feel a little more courage. Add in a person or two like me that are a little high strung already, a couple of wannabe heroes, a few athletes aging or not and you have the makings of a little big horn.
I would like to know they checked photos. They did act very strange!!!
When do these folks figure out that once they crash into something they are no longer here nor there to make a point to anyone. I still don't understand why they are so bent on that. The recruitors for these missions must have one hell of a line.
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