[NYC GOP Chick]

Well, you are the first person I've seen on this thread who is calm and rational, not running around screaming like your hair is on fire.

I suppose that in the last almost 3 years, having read on here about every possible mishap -- fires, electricity outages, industrial accidents -- being a terrorist act, I've become more than a little hesitant to jump on the "IT'S A TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" bandwagon.

[American in Israel]

I suspect they are terrorists with a very weak cover. One is a Koran reader, another makes videos praising suicide killings as a path to paradise. All of them followed quite closely the MO that there is a terror warning about.

Were they terrorists? That I do not know. If they had been, and thought it was a go, that plane would have been down. If they were terrorists or not is immaterial, the fact that they had no opposition was proof that our system is flawed and needs to be corrected. The flight crew should have popped on the seat belt sign and then insisted that the passengers be seated. They did not exert their authority and put the plane in danger.

That much is clear.

I am for passing a law that a flight crew, like a captain on a ship is THE law, and is immune from prosecution on PC Hate crimes. Logic would dictate that a crew member that feels a flight risk over rides some persons "feelings" being hurt, but the cash happy tort courts "feel" otherwise.

We are at war and had better toughen up, or we will end up with our throats slit or worse.