[SES1066]

Am I out of line here or do you know of any way to force increased safety without decrementing our liberties?

[BurkeanCyclist]

Am I out of line here or do you know of any way to force increased safety without decrementing our liberties?

I think cutting off access between the cockpit and the passenger cabins is a good idea. Also we should perhaps return to having armed Sky Marshals on flights.

Then, of course, we should start killing known terrorists and their sponsors without waiting to pin a specific incident on them. We should also try non-citizen accomplices captured in this country before military tribunals, not in civilian courts.

[AppyPappy]

Screw defense. We need offense. Arm the pilots.

[SES1066]

As a further warning on the danger to our long-term liberty in seeking short-term safety - Here is a link to a previous Freep Posting by Paul Weyrich

[Procyon]

Yes. In the early sixties, after a Bonanza Air Lines plans was brought down by someone entering the cockpit and killing the pilots, Bonanza armed it's pilots.

[Deep_6]

re:

"..Am I out of line here or do you know of any way to
force increased safety without decrementing our
liberties?..."

Work with the freedoms we have.

Do not require government intervention and involvement
into security related matters of private industry or
public transportation.

All aircraft and major-mode transportation workers
should be armed and trained with/for the arms they
should be compelled to carry. The public should demand
that from the carriers, not the government.

The right of an airline or major-mode transportation
company, to inspect baggage and persons for metallic
objects [and demand confiscation of same], should not
be thwarted by false assumption that they are
impeaching a freedom of an individual.

I cannot enter a courthouse without turning over a
small penknife at the door. It is not my inherent
"right" to carry that within that building. There are
armed guards within that building and I am not required
to enter; I have the choice not to.

Why should I be alarmed at being required to do the
same when entering an aircraft?


To quote from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b9f417a79b4.htm

"..Too, too many voices are shouting for the trading

away our precious freedoms for the illusion of security...

[Jim Noble]

The same defense that we have against young Japanese pilots crashing into our fleet units.

We must either withdraw behind the oceans OR war upon the nations arrayed against us, rain destruction on their people until their will to resist is broken, try their leaders, and reorganize them under our suzeranity.

There is no middle option, although I am sure our politicians will be frantically searching for one.

[A+Bert (Outta here)]

General Swartzkopf on NBC and appealing to reason.

[Theophilus]

mount phalanx batteries on each quadrant of tall buildings

[jwalsh07]

Preventive maintenance amigo.

[miner89]

The way to make us safer is to kill the terrorists. The misconception is that since there are suicide terrorists, we can't stop them. This is not true. The suicide terrorists are organized and sent on their missions by terrorists who do not want to die. If we kill the head, there will be no one to organize the ones crazy enough to do this stuff.

[maestro]

Cut off their access to all 'drug' and 'oil' monies.
Just say,"No"!

[wasp69]

It has always been my observation that the best defense is a good, and overwhelming, offense. Take that for what it's worth.

[maestro]

The U.S.A. must win the war on 'Drugs' and 'Oil'.
These are the primary targets!
Cut off their access to the monies.

[maestro]

bump

[Marduk]

Stop supporting Zionism and the terrorism will go away without any need to curtail our civil liberties.

[LibKill]

Besides the obvious, air marshalls, etc. I offer a Marine Corps proverb.

The best defense is to counter-attack at least three times a day.