There’s so much to say about this...what they put the passengers and crew through, the frantic whitewash by the airlines, probably orchestrated by the feds, whom we hope are on the case. The fact that most of the media haven’t covered the story. (It’ll be interesting to see if Foxnews mentions it.)
The Islamofascists would love to unleash a horror like this for Christmas. Their present to all America. Meanwhile, we don’t seem to have the guts to name the enemy. They’ve already murdered more people, including thousands of Americans, than Pearl Harbor. Well, Obama and pals have emboldened them with a lack of respect for America’s Judeo-Christian heritage/values/mores, so we can expect more and worse.
I have several Airline pilots where I live.
I have asked each about this incident and they all say the moosies are trying this crap EVERY day and not too much gets done about it.
Our govt is NOT protecting you.
It is covering up for the moosies agenda.
I think it was a combination dry-run and attempt to troll for lawsuits. If AirTran had kept them off they plane, they would have sued.
Now the passengers should sue, in order to get this story out into the media and in order to get some justice for the ordeal they were forced to go through by AirTran.
I wouldn’t have let the mooselimbs back on the plane. They could find another way to their destination. PC is going to get people killed.
I’m packing Spam in a baggie next time I fly.
I don’t know yet.
There were a whole bunch of folks on that plane yet only 2 others partially corroborate the tale.
I suspect this was a three-pronged attack. At the lowest level it was designed to aggravate and intimidate a bunch of law-abiding travelers, the same way gang bangers will go into a public place and misbehave just for the hell of it.
At the next level it was an attempt to get kicked off the flight so they could joint the great American lawsuit parade. With the precedent set by the Flying Imams it's practically a given that they can get a soap box and a payoff.
At the the top level it was another probing of the security measures being used these days. They learned a lot from this. Again, I would have been kicked off the flight, arrested and put on the no-fly list had I done any of the things these guys did. They know now they have a good deal of leeway before the situation reaches the point an airline will risk the bad publicity of enforcing the rules when the problem passenger is not a WASP.
All in all, I would say they consider their mission to have been accomplished at every level.
Just another of the myriad of ways life in the US is being changed from what I grew up KNOWING was the best country in the history of the world.
I don't see anything being done to reverse the trend. One by one our freedoms are being taken away. Government gets bigger and more intrusive one small step at a time. As Rush points out, all they are waiting for is for those of us who are old enough to know what America used to be to die off and then it's Katie-bar-the-door.
The concept has been refined and simplified. If it’s too difficult to get box cutters and or other weapons on board an airliner, than simply fill the cabin with enough muslims to overpower any resistance. Now on most planes today that will require a very large number unless they have a plan to immediately take women and children hostages by brute strength ( choke holds or other mean of torture which can cause everyone else to not counter-attack. I should think that if a plane suddenly has sold out all 1st class seats and they are all arabs I think they could then control the forward cabin and break into the flight deck.
I was just thinking that it might be a good idea for lots of Americans to start learning the Arabic language. At least we would know what they are saying. They have the advantage of knowing what we are saying while we do not know what they are saying.
I wonder if Rosetta Stone teaches Arabic?
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whatever it was that happened, it can’t be good news downstream....