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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7796)9/13/2001 9:34:51 AM
From: Think4Yourself  Read Replies (2) of 23153
 
After thinking about this almost every waking minute since the incident I have compiled a list of what I would like my government to do.

1. Short term incident retaliation - Kill Osama bin Laden and key cohorts. Someone will take his place but most likely will not have his intelligence and organizational skills. I don't care if he is directly responsible for this particular incident or not. If he was involved or condoned it, get rid of him.

2. Long term incident retaliation - Empower the CIA to deal directly with terrorists. Use third parties to execute plans whenever possible. Goals are destruction or at least degradation of more sophisticated groups and the QUIET destabilization of supporting governments. Actions against foreign governments should not be linked back to the US.

3. Short term solutions:

a. Dramatically increase use of Air Marshalls and use on domestic flight. Use FBI/Treasury department agents in the short term until more agents are trained. This will deter future terrorist acts and, more importantly, restore public confidence in flying. The rest of the FAA changes are minor in impact compared to this.

b. Modify planes so there is NO access to the cockpit during flight unless certain flight conditions are met, such as angle of attack, altitude, etc.

4. Long term solutions

a. Decrease reliance on oil, reducing funds for terrorist countries. This neccessarily means increasing the use of nuclear

Don't bother increasing INS personnel. It's a waste of time and money. We can't stop someone with money who really wants to come across. I live right near Canada and know it is trivial to cross without being detected. Give me a boat, or even a kayak, and I'll bet my life savings that I can get across the border undetected in a day no matter how many INS personnel are deployed.

Don't bother with all the expensive knive BS the airports are doing. I can make a stabbing/cutting weapon out of plastic that is as effective as a steel weapon and walk right through the detectors.
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