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Dear Fred Mertz:

Do you think, on your own, that you can protect yourself from an attack like 9/11??

What are you Superman, Batman, Luke Skywalker or what?

Do you think, on your own, that you can protect yourself from an attack like 9/11??

Alone, no. But, together we can. Flight 93 is the proof. It will never happen again, for the same reason they didn't succeed on Flight 93: the passengers realized what was going to happen and took action to stop it.

The tragedy on 9/11 occurred because of increasing government oppression and interference in airplane security -- who told airlines and passengers to just sit quietly, comply with hijackers, and let the feds negotiate.

I fly regularly for business and have had this same discussion over and over again with other frequent flyers and flight crew. If anyone tries to hijack a plane in the US, I'll be on top of them with my arm around their throat, even if I die trying. And, I know there will be plenty of other people on the plane that will be helping me.

We all agree that those people want to do very bad things to us, but I do not believe that any likely actions that Homeland Security might take (likely at this time) will be effective. We can not protect ourselves by playing defense.
If something bad enough happens to us then the polical will for drastic internal security might exist. Anything less than drastic change would just be avoided by our enemies.
I don't want to put up with annoying inefective security requirements and pray that things never get so bad that effective security changes are implemented.
The blood we spend in defending liberty should be spent in offensive actions, taking the war to the enemy. None of us want to spend anyones blood as victims of terror.