Posted on 07/24/2004 4:05:17 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
No wonder they were complaining about the dress code then, if anonymity is the ONLY advantage and they don't even have that!
Well, gee, ask the survivors of Flight 587 over Queens.
On one hand passengers are supposed to be aware of their surroundings and fellow passengers as our part in homeland defense. Not every flight has air marshalls aboard.
On the other hand, if we become alarmed by what we see, we are not to appear alarmed, or the marshalls who are there (or not there) may suspect us as being plants to expose them.
Now who is supposed to be protected? The passengers and crew, or the air marshalls?
Having worked with several air marshals while they were in the Border Patrol, I would have to know who the marshals are before deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
bump
I don't understand your post... I was saying that the idea that she was "overreacting" is problematic.
If the TSA really wanted to protect people they would not let any arabs on any flight.
These days your best defense is to avoid flying whenever possible. For distances less than 1000 miles, it's faster to drive.
If you have to fly, observe people in the waiting area. If you see lots of arabs ask the airline folks to be moved to a later flight. Tell them why. When enough people start doing this, maybe things will change.
Remember islamic arabs want us dead. Their religion says they go to heaven if they die while killing infidels.
I would probably have "overreacted" to the tune of something far more extreme. Especially when they all alegedly stood up together at the end.
I get edgy enough when I fly. I don't know if I could have tolerated that quietly.
Yeh, and on that other plane where they found the ME guy in the forward restroom trying to dig through the wall into the cockpit---that was just an over-reaction, too, of course.
Now, move along, folks. Nothing to see here. Quickly, quickly. Go buy some duct tape and plastic sheeting, and we'll handle things here...
Also, these group of 14 had expired visas! Nothing was done about it. Joe Scarborough is following up on this story.
Bump. Absolutely correct.
First we are told to be the eyes and ears because we all have to help out. Then with the strange, unusual and blatant behaviors of the middle eastern men on board a passenger brings it to the attention of the flight attendants who are ALSO watching this strange, unusual, behavior and NOW they tell us these passengers OVERREACTED? Excuse me? Good for the passengers. They were alert. I'm tired of this "roll over and be taken advantage of" attitude. All it gets you is death at the hands of a perpetrator. I think they did the right thing and...did basically what we have all been told to do and that is be the eyes and ears of law enforcement, etc.
I was under the impression that their main tactical advantage is their firearms.
I guess the air marshalls would have snapped into action after the bomb went off...?
Go watch MTV. Or Fox. Whatever. Just sit down and shut up.
Everythings taken care of.
I expect that some folks are going to have to get killed before government agents want people to protect themselves.
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