Posted on 12/07/2005 11:28:34 AM PST by YoshiBear
Hope this is not a duplicate. No more details yet Passengers getting off
Would you be willing to board a plane having "suspicious bags" on it? Case closed.
Scott Peterson and Jeffrey Dahmer were relatively good looking men.
So......your point is?????
Established? By who? The reports YOU have heard from the MSM? That deserves a double snicker. Since when do we buy anything they tell us? Perhaps she did...perhaps she didn't yell that.
I doubt we will ever know all the details.
Heck no, I was just pointing out the most simplistic explanation of suspicion.
Well, it's a snicker to you right now. But suppose you were a perfectly innocent person flying home from visiting relatives who'd given you the wedding ring of your grandmother who was were killed with your grandfather at Auschwitz, or who'd given you a hand-drawn card made for you by your young grandchild who just died of leukemia. And next thing you know the carry-on bag it's in, that you'd been so careful not to let out of your sight, is being confiscated and blown up. Yes, I'm being a little dramatic, but I hope these bags aren't being blown up without real indication that it's necessary. If every bag that any bomb-sniffing dog has even a faint reaction to is being blown up, that's overboard IMO, since those dogs often react when nothing's really there, and there could just as easily be dozens of bags on other planes right now that would trigger the same reaction.
At the immediate moment of conflict, what would have been the determining factor that he had no bomb in his carry on or a remote detonation device rigged to his or his wife's checked baggage?
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Best of luck to you.
I haven't read the whole thread yet but, if I'm to board a plane, or are already on the plane and someone says he has a bomb... I want the marshalls to shoot first and ask later! The hell with the SOB/asshole's life and rights!
I agree. Especially if the headlines can take a little shine off of Bush's luster, in one way or another..
There's a quote in "Accidental Tourist" that says something like "Never take anything on a trip, that if lost, would be devastating."
Yes, it's possible there was, in those bags, the only remaining picture of grandma. More likely, there was some underwear and some very small soaps. From our uninvolved vantage point, it looks goofy to blow up bags, but for them, the consequences of not taking it seriously are much higher. Some incidents of silliness are bound to happen. But one of these times, it might be real.
Point is is that with good looks, this dead guy will attract more attention in the media.
They're not trying to take off a little shine of Bush's luster, they'll claim Bush is responsible for this whole incident.
A year or so ago, Mythbusters did a test. They found a passenger jet in an airplane graveyard in a desert somewhere. They mounted a handgun inside, rigged it to fire by remote control, pressurized the cabin to what it would be like at about 35,000 feet then fired the gun. All it did was put a little bullet hole in the fuselage. There was no "explosive decompression".
They repeated the experiment by firing out through a window. Same result.
The idea that a bullet from a handgun could bring down a plane is just silly. If it was true, planes wouldn't be sent off to war -- they'd be too easily shot down.
If they really think it's important to blow up every bag that a dog gives any reaction to, it would be nice if they'd do that as every plane is being loaded/boarded. The next real terrorist isn't statistically likely to end up on the same flight as some random nutcase.
What "is pretty well established now"?
He disclosed that as soon as this incident happened, other air marshalls went into surveillance mode at other airports around the country to see if there was any coordinated activity.
Good idea, but was it necessary for him to tell the world that's what they are doing?
Thanks. I'll pass that link on to my dad and half-brother.
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