At 11:21 PM 8/7/04 -0700, you wrote:
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Joe R. wrote:
If you really want to stop airline hijacking.
Lock the cockpit (that
STILL hasn't been fully impemented!), Arm all the pilots (Ha! They're still
not allowing ANY pilots to carry guns AFIK) and put one or more ARMED sky
marshalls on EVERY flight and announce that fact. How many hijackers with
paper cutters do you think would be willing to go up against an armed
marshall?
It would cost a lot less (i.e. no tax hikes!) to just change foreign
policy to reflect a more humble approach.
But Texico, Chevron, BP, IMF and Dick Cheney (among MANY others) will
never permit that to happen!
my 2 cents worth,
Joe
If you go around acting the ass
when you've already been bitch slapped, you just
haven't figured it out
yet.
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