On Tue, 10 May 2005 16:51:06 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote:



On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed
themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists
because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated
their captors.


Hardly an hour later, dozens of nearly identical airline passengers,
including
a number of middle-aged women, realizing the extent of what was going on,
and that they likely were not getting out of this alive, took a food service
cart and several carafes of boiling water, disabled the "muscle" guarding
the terrorist-occupied cockpit, and were it the process of breaking into the
cockpit when the terrorist pilots decided the game was up, and crashed the
plane.

Jon

but only after being notified by friends and families that they were
likely to die if they didnt do something.

Gunner

Liberals - Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends
of every country save their own. Benjamin Disraeli