Posted on 05/13/2005 2:03:47 AM PDT by LukeSW
You are right in a way. Not that my suggestion doesn't make any sense -- for it is the most effective of sugestions on how to make things safer right quick. But some limited restrictions on airspaces exist for good reasons -- like heavies in landing, or active target ranges or experimental facilities, etc.
Hognose should keep his nose out of it
Okay carry such thinking to its logical conclusion -- no one should be able to enter the Beltway without crossing a one-mile wide free-fire border zone naked. No vehicles except those fully searched by complete disassembly and re-assembly and microscopically examined. Afterall someone could backpack in a nuke, literally, in a backpack on their back. Or some A-cup woman could have a D-cup bra full of anthrax. Or some dirty bomb bolted onto a Mac Truck transmission.
Thanks for the ping!
They leave a Dear John letter and pack a suitcase. They don't make it look like they were abducted on a jog.
What might have happened if the plane had started dumping the stuff all over the area?That's the way it is with Bush critics. Shoot at him if he moves right. Shoot at him if he moves left. And shoot at him if he holds to the center.If that would have happened, the Bush critics would have been all over security for not having shot down the plane.
Bush is always, always, always wrong, no matter what he does and no matter when he does it.
Which, in a way, frees him from criticism. Criticism of everything is, essentially, criticism of nothing.
Mainl because she staged her disappearance to look like it was not planned. Normally when people disappear of their own accord, they take some clothing and their wallet and their car keys with them. Had she done that, there would not have been a huge manhunt for her.
I appreciate your posting it.
Normally don't leave clothing, wallet and car keys? People who waltz off aren't behaving normally. I wonder if there are any statistics -- I'd imagine a lot of such waltzing off isn't reported officially and when reported not looked into that deeply. There's no law that says when someone pops off on walk-about that they have to take A, B and C.
Yeah, but she planned ahead to make it look like she had been kidnapped by purchasing a bus ticket.
Normally I'd agree with you. But given how she waltzed off, coupled with her initial claim that she had been kidnapped, indicates that she wished to give the impression when she left that she had been taken against her will.
She wanted people to think she'd been abducted and potentially raped and murdered. I'm not out for her blood, and I didn't follow the many threads on it, but it's not malice to have cold feet, it's malice to make everyone believe you are the victim of an abduction.
Good arguments. A case for a jury, cross-exmination and supeona, perhaps. But it's mens re. A thing of the mind. And she was a highly confused person, not in so much control of that mind.
The security personnel in this situation acted very reasonably and should be commended, not ridiculed.
Exactly.
What would people be saying right now if a Cessna, packed with explosives, even a small amount set to detonate on impact, slammed into the White house? It probably wouldn't destroy it or harm the President (who knows) but the symbolic value would embolden our enemy and perhaps encourage other attacks.
I don't believe we overreacted at all. Warning flares were fired and the plane landed...no charges filed.
Protocol prevailed, this time.
~Corey
By itself - not much. However, how much C4 explosive could such a plane carry? I understand approximately 500 pounds worth. A 500 pound bomb makes for one heck of an explosion - ask those in Iraq.
I bet she settles and pays something voluntarily. I doubt they'd actually charge her or have any jury trial.
Right.
Also, think about the symbolism if a plane, any plane, slammed into the WH. Jihadi would be cheering in the streets, screaming: "See! The leader of the infidels can be hit! Hit them hard!"
500 pound payload doesn't include pilots and fuel. Two pilots and full fuel and you're overloaded. These little training planes are constantly running light as possible to stay within weight and balance limits.
'The security personnel in this situation acted very reasonably and should be commended, not ridiculed.'
Read the last paragraph again. I think the security guys he is ridiculing are the executive protection type squirreling their charges out of the Congress. Why is anthrax in the open less of a threat than anthrax smashed up against a govt building?
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