Posted on 12/07/2005 4:43:31 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Take your medicines or get off the streets!
Yeah...that's the ticket....let's kill all the mentally ill....they annoying and a drain on our resources....
Oh yeah...let's not forget the gypsys....and those pesky jews....
We could build large camps.....
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Yep. Feel kinda sorry for the lunatic, but the marshall did exactly what he should have. Now wifey will be filing a billion dallar lawsuit within days.
I can just see the wingtip footprints in her yard today from the scores of amulance chasing scumbags.
He couldn't have known. Crazy or not the guy could have had a bomb. What if he had been carrying a bomb and the AM hesitated? A lot of people would have been blown up.
Kill only the mentally ill who are running off of a packed plane yelling they set a bomb while ignoring air marshals demands to freeze.
Righteous shooting, in my book.
The Libs are gonna try to have a field day with this
never bring a bomb threat to a gun fight
Bump
Definitely the right decision. If the guy's shouting that he has a bomb, shoot him. No use trying to get him to surrender--I doubt people who use bombs are planning on surviving their glorious martyrdom.
Pretty clean kill.
Insane people should not be allowed on airplanes.
Real bombers don't shout out that they have a bomb, they just try to set their shoes on fire in the bathroom.
People who are manic-depressive can still distinguish reality from fantasy, and respond appropriately to orders to stop, put their hands up, etc. Nobody shot this guy because he was "mentally ill", but because he was threatening to explode a bomb.
Natural selection at work.
You are going to cause a lot of traffic putting all those democrats on the road.
Idjit, if the SM had hesitated, you would be ranting, why did they not kill him before he set off the bomb.
Would you bet the lives of the 200 people on that plane and the 200 + inside the concourse where the plane was sitting?
It's a tragic story, but yes, the Air Marshals did the right thing.
Do Democrats think Miami air marshals lied?
This is a rundown of what happened at the Miami Airport on Wednesday:
A man aboard an American Airlines flight from Colombia:
1. Claimed he had a bomb.
2. Made threatening statements and exhibited erratic behavior.
3. Refused to comply with numerous and repeated demands to stop.
Authorities determined that:
1. The man posed a mortal threat to those around him.
2. The man refused to comply with their demands to disarm.
As a result, the man was shot and killed. This lessened and perhaps ended the threat against those on the plane. Future threats from others may have also been discouraged.
As it turned out, the man didn’t have a bomb, but those whose job it is to know believed that he could have. They judged that the man’s statements and actions posed too great a threat to take a chance – especially in a post-9/11 world. The air marshals launched a pre-emptive strike against a threat based on the best information available.
Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have not yet issued statements.
There is one good thing to come out of this, the world now knows that when it comes our commercial airlines our marshalls have been given the green light to shoot first and ask questions later. U.K. proved the same thing in July when they dusted that guy that ran from them.
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