07-21-2004, 02:25 PM
see that's just it. I understand the writer's concerns and questioning why certain things weren't done before letting those guys on board but there are some flaws with her logic.
If the US officials (and airline officials) are going to go thru a middle eastern guy's bag then they need to go thru everyone's. Not for the racial profiling (though it would piss off a lot of anti-racism stuff) but because the terrorists will just get one of their non-arab looking buddies to do the dirty work.
Problem is that in the U.S. we have so many fuckin whiners that will find it intrusion of privacy (covered under the constitution) that the gov't and airlines will be constantly getting fined.
I think that the air marshalls did the right thing, they were there (woot!) in case one of these guys pulled a weapon or bomb or whatever. Also there have been cases since 9-11 of people getting attacked by passengers becaues they tried to do something stupid. Like that one guy who charged the cockpit of an airplane and ended up being killed by passengers because of it. Turns out he was a retard and was mad that he wasn't allowed into the cockpit anymore but oh well, the passengers just showed that they weren't going to allow someone (anyone) to do that sort of thing anymore.
If there is going to be any more hijackings in the U.S. or plane explosions then it's going have to happen where the rest of the plane does not know about it otherwise that plane is going to get messy as passengers (and air marshalls) try to stop the happenings.
If the US officials (and airline officials) are going to go thru a middle eastern guy's bag then they need to go thru everyone's. Not for the racial profiling (though it would piss off a lot of anti-racism stuff) but because the terrorists will just get one of their non-arab looking buddies to do the dirty work.
Problem is that in the U.S. we have so many fuckin whiners that will find it intrusion of privacy (covered under the constitution) that the gov't and airlines will be constantly getting fined.
I think that the air marshalls did the right thing, they were there (woot!) in case one of these guys pulled a weapon or bomb or whatever. Also there have been cases since 9-11 of people getting attacked by passengers becaues they tried to do something stupid. Like that one guy who charged the cockpit of an airplane and ended up being killed by passengers because of it. Turns out he was a retard and was mad that he wasn't allowed into the cockpit anymore but oh well, the passengers just showed that they weren't going to allow someone (anyone) to do that sort of thing anymore.
If there is going to be any more hijackings in the U.S. or plane explosions then it's going have to happen where the rest of the plane does not know about it otherwise that plane is going to get messy as passengers (and air marshalls) try to stop the happenings.
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