Posted on 12/08/2005 12:21:37 PM PST by Rennes Templar
Right. The Air Marshalls should have gotten out the flight manifest and read it in the .5 seconds that they had to make a decision.
Amen!
Anything to make the Feds look bad...
maybe he wrote a note saying "I have a gub."
You're probably right; from the way he's "adjusting" his story, before the night is over, he'll probably show himself to be the liar I think he is.
Good point....
susie
Especially if the doors are still open!
susie
Yu said "The marshal messed up, plain and simple, his job is to shoot terrorists, Rigoberto Alpizar was not a terrorist."
Tha air marshals didn't mess up, the passenger did.
The air marshals were faced with a LOUSY tactical situation and only a few seconds to make a decision. They had a hundred or so lives to deal with in the decision process.
They made the EXACT decision I would want them to make. They had no way of knowing that he was not a terrorist. With lives in the balance and only a split second to make the decision, they chose the route designed to protect the largest number of people.
Who was that man? I'd like to shake his hand.
Then why even worry about him running toward the cockpit? Why would a guy with a bomb run toward the cockpit on a plane still on the ground with a bomb if he just wanted to blow it up anyway?
Think man...
Keystone Cop Ping!
44 year old grifter on disability who thinks he might make a few bucks out'a this.
Just reading through this thread and saw your tagline---funniest thing I've ever seen.
I hope you didn't copyright it---I really want to use it. LOL
Don't repeat this aboard a plane...
One for 1st Class and one for coach?
Seems a lot more planes could be covered if one armed marshall was on board instead of two?
Bomb? Don't you mean a ba-?
And where's Scraps when you need him?
Don't know. But I do know that if you are running up the aisle and raving like a lunatic that you shouldn't be surprised if you get shot.
You're usually pretty reasonable. The point was that the origination of the plane is irrelevant.
Sounds like someone who wants to insert himself in the story. Notice how he sets up his potential heroism by describing how he was ready to break someone's neck if necessary
I'm not jumping on any bandwagons. I just think it's premature to assume we know all the facts, and there is no reason we have to believe that the guy actually announced that he had a bomb for the shooting to be justified.
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