Greetings and Salutations....
Of course, I had a thought about a paragraph
or two to add WELL after I hit the "send" button - So
here it is:

Along with everything else, there has been a
sea change in the minds of air travellers, thanks
to 9/11. For the 30 years or so of hijackings before
9/11, the rule was that the hijackers only wanted to
get someplace else...so if everyone hung tight,
the worst thing that would happen would be that they
would spend a day or so in a Havana airport. So...
for everyone, the attitude was to take it easy and
go along with the hijackers. The terrorists of
9/11, though, changed the rules completely. Now,
the attitude is that any hijacker is going to
be using the plane for a weapon...so no one has
anything MORE to lose, and, so will react
appropriately. That is an apple that one only
gets ONE bite at...and they took it, so, instead
of a plane full of passive passengers, from now
on, hijackers will be facing a plane filled with
really ticked off enemies who are not going to
let something like this happen without challenge.
Interestingly enough, though (and getting
back to the strange thought patterns of the governement
here), I just saw THIS article in TheRegister:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/01/fbi_opposes_air_mobiles/
Of course, no mentions of this in AMERICAN news media
as of yet...and I will be interested to see if any is
made. In any case, I see it as yet another example
of the government callously using the events of 9/11
to promote their internal agenda of complete and total
control.
Regards
Dave Mundt