Air Marshals Say Passenger Overreacted (NW flight)

KFI News ^ | July 22, 2004 | Eric Leonard

[glockmeister40]

I'm sorry, not all - just the ones who practice islam. Islam is not a religion - it's a psychopathic mental illness.

[Cultural Jihad]

Their paranoidal and bigoted rants play well to the DNC which is trying to claim they would make America safer. And for a slight correction, she wasn't just a reporter, but a cub reporter for a little-known financial advice website.

[Cultural Jihad]

. . . it's a psychopathic mental illness.

President Bush and the Pope say otherwise, but we should just ignore their credentials and listen to you instead.

[glockmeister40]

I've never had to walk from a flight, but I fly a lot less than I used to. There ain't nothing on that plane worth my life.

What are air marshalls going to do if a bomb gets detonated? Go down with the ship just like the rest of the poor slobs.

Commercial airports and flying have always sucked. Now they just suck more than they used to.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There is no reason that one of them could not bring a gun or a bomb into work with them and then pass it to an accomplice, who went through security clean, in a bag with a muffin purchased at Starbucks.

If they even do it in the Starbucks at all, where other employees might be watching. The employees have breaks don't they? They can go anywhere in the secure passenger area they please, if not actually board a plane.

[glockmeister40]

President Bush and the Pope say otherwise, but we should just ignore their credentials and listen to you instead.

Absoultely. I can say what they dare not. I'll bet in private they agree with me.

[Cultural Jihad]

I doubt that very much. Americans are fighting and dying alongside of, and for, those same people whom the knuckledraggers despise.

[southland]

RE post 161: I agree we are too easy with our "enemy".
I think of no reason as to why our pilots have not had weapons all the time since we have known for perhaps 20 years that there are those who hate us and dislike our way of life. If a man is trusted with flying our planes why not let them protect us?

[glockmeister40]

Feel free to go over there and live a while. Just let us know who your next of kin are. Maybe your body will get shipped to them. Sans head, of course.

Talk the talk, walk the walk.

[Mister Blond]

Wow! With those kind of numbers, I'm surprised any of us are still alive.

[Cultural Jihad]

It is those who claim that a valid religion successfully practiced by a billion people is a "psychopathic mental illness" who need to walk the walk.

"Get in there and protect the purity of essence of our precious bodily fluids!"

[rolling_stone]

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040727-123853-7608r.htm

Air marshals and pilots say terrorists are actively testing airline security and the behavior of the musicians mirrors a test run.
"Organized terrorists have been and are doing probes," a second air marshal said. The Jacobsens' account is credible "because it is eerily similar to previous incidents that have happened on planes."
The Jacobsens have become the subject of ridicule on some blogs and criticized in one media report by an unnamed government source, but the Federal Air Marshals Association (FAMA) issued a statement Sunday backing the family.
FAMA also called on the government to release the recording of the pilot's call to air traffic control for law-enforcement assistance.
The unnamed source suggested Mrs. Jacobsen was hysterical and was the reason that law-enforcement officials were called to the airport.
Pilots and marshals say the flight crew and onboard marshals were obviously concerned and the Joint Terrorism Task Force would not be deployed in routine cases of upset or unruly passengers.
"Dealing with upset plane passengers is not exactly new," the pilot said.
The second air marshal said the Jacobsens did exactly what President Bush and Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge have asked U.S. citizens to do: Be vigilant and report suspicious behavior.