Your REAL name is JOHN JACOB JINGO</font color=red>HEIMER SMITH and you're heading down to the RECRUITING OFFICE this morning, right? I did 4 years in the USAF during the Nam thing, but I'm too old or I'd give it a whirl.
I'm not saying the coming fight is not necessary or justified. I just pray it's not a textbook briar patch.
Let's have this conversation after those dreadful freezers at DOVER AFB begin to fill up -- perhaps with some of YOUR friends and family.
And if Bush is so great, he will move immediately to arm our commercial air crews. While I'm sure these monsters have OTHER things in mind for us, he could at least try to prevent another hijacking tragedy allowing them to use commercial aircraft as bombs.
YOU SEE, THE ENTIRE EPISODE COULD HAVE BEEN AVERTED HAD EACH OF THOSE PLANES HAD STRONGER COCKPIT DOORS AND THOSE FOUR CAPTAINS HAD CRUMBY $300. PISTOLS IN THEIR FLIGHT BAGS!
WE SIMPLY MUST ASK OUR "LEADERS" (BUSH INCLUDED) WHY THEY DID NOT!!
AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT PLAN, ASK THE SURVIVORS OF THE 5,000 FORMER AMERICANS IF THEY WOULD AGAIN TRADE THEIR LOVED ONES TO APPEASE THE OH-SO DELICATE SENSIBILITIES OF ROSIE O'DONNELL, SARAH BRADY AND THE NUTS AT HANDGUN CONTROL. ANYBODY ELSE WONDER WHY WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THEM SINCE 9-11?
As America continues to reel from the catastrophic events of 9/11, we need to rethink a few things:
It’s probably time to train and ARM the cockpit crews of US carriers who agree to the program. Pilots and FOs who do not want the responsibility can be exempted. It was, after all, the folks controlling the aircraft who were the targets on Terrible Tuesday.
During the rash of hijackings of a few decades ago, the feds put armed “AIR MARSHALS” on many flights. While some correctly argued that a fuselage punctured by a bullet at 35,000 feet MIGHT – repeat MIGHT bring the plane down – hijackings fell off.
One thing we know for sure about the four craft hijacked on 9/11: They ALL CAME DOWN and THEY ALL DIED!!
And to those who will inevitably – and stupidly – argue that pilots and FOs just cannot be trusted with the decision about when it’s time to pull a trigger, better tell the up to 400 folks sitting in the back that the guys up front are judgment-impaired!
Personally, I’d prefer to take my chances with a rapid decompression than watch some madman take MY flight into a building or the ground at 500 mph. That was the final experience of 266 fellow humans on 9/11. I KNOW I – like they – won’t survive that!
And pay VERY close attention to the "solutions" being offered by those in government: They are NOT talking about REMOVING the limitations they have ALREADY placed on us as individuals to DEFEND OURSELVES. They are beginning to talk about FURTHER RESTRICTIONS on our liberties and MORE GOVERNMENT! More GOVERNMENT? The same GOVERNMENT that failed so miserably in its obligation to protect citizens that 5,000 of them died like cattle in a slaughterhouse on September 11th? THAT GOVERNMENT?? </font color=red>
It’s again the old, old story: There aren’t TOO many weapons out there. It’s that the touchy-feely, warm-fuzzy PC crowd now sees to it that all too frequently, THE WRONG PEOPLE HAVE THEM!
Now WHERE DID I leave those asbestos BVDs?
That cannot be repeated too often! If our government were interested in solving the problem of hijacking and using a plane as a weapon, it would be done immediately.
But look at our govenrment's solution to random acts of civil violence: Further impeed an individual's right to self protection.
And the quality of airport security management measures: Take the plastic knives out of airport eateries. Abysmally stupid. Like suspending tots for making a drawing of a gun.
What are we trying to do, make the terrorists laugh themselves to death?