On 6 Nov 2005 01:50:11 -0800, "Charlie Self" wrote:

From an email, called Junk Mail from Bob:

Terrorists are Everywhere!

Baltimore closed down tunnels last month.

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/health...34/detail.html
.... and snip of some more

This is one area where I agree with you Charlie. This is a perfect
example of our government learning exactly the wrong thing from an event.
What 9/11 taught us was not that there were weapons on a plane that
shouldn't have been there, what 9/11 taught us were two primary lessons:
1) there weren't enough private citizens on board those planes with the
means to defend themselves, and more importantly
2) the claptrap mantra that, "in the event of a hijacking (or other crime),
the victims should docilely go along with the thugs' wishes and no-one, or
fewer people will get hurt" was proven to be the bogus bunch of hooey that
it is. The people on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania got it,
apparently the bureaucrats and government statists did not.

The American flying public learned those lessons, thus the capture of the
shoe-bomber (even though he was an apparent idiot) and several other
instances in which, what would have been the victims in the past, have
overpowered and subdued would-be hijackers.

It is very unlikely that a plane full of passengers will sit still for
any type of attempt to take over a flight in the future. What the current
stupidity and window dressing being done by the TSA goons is doing is
taking away useful tools from those potential victims, meaning that the
possibility for injury to themselves will be greater when dealing with
better armed adversaries who have circumvented the window dressing. All
the thugs have to do is look middle-eastern and well-lawyered and TSA won't
touch them -- passing them through checkpoints with barely a glance to
avoid any possible ramifications from the ACLU. Instead the TSA will opt
to strip search a few 90 year old grandmothers in wheelchairs or balding,
middle-aged white guys in suits (or a few medal of honor winners).


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