Chaz, There isn't going to be another hijacking of an aircraft. That horse has bolted. It's too late to shut the stable door. That's why they did all at once, in a big hit. They knew it was a oncer. Any hijacker that announces his intention to go to Havana from now on is going to be buried in an avalanche of duty free bottles of booze [which hurt heads when they land, especially if wielded by a baseball player who happens to be on the plane], hot water, carry on bags [to protect against knife wounds], fists, and everything else. Everyone now knows that if you don't fight back, you die. So they'll offer resistance and fast!
If the hijackers thought they could do it more than once, they would have scheduled one a month so that just as everyone was getting over the first one, they'd be hit with another.
Any Arab-looking passengers [especially if there are more than one of them on a flight] are going to get the three times over inspection and to hell with the politically-correct anti-profiling business. Grandmothers with walking sticks and taking their grandchild on a trip, who grew up in Britain are not terrorist risks [unless they are Catholic Irish in which case their walking stick probably has a sword, gun, Semtex, sarin or the like in it].
I wonder what people of this thread would think of somebody who had sent money to Osama to help with the freedom fight so the one true religion can be ascendant. I wonder what they think of Irish Americans who gave money to Gerry Adams to help with the freedom fight so the one true religion can be ascendant. I wonder if Irish Americans can see the parallel or are they even now making their monthly direct debit to help the next bombing. There was a car bomb just a month before WTC cbsnews.com
<The IRA is observing a cease-fire, but the peace process is opposed by a dissident group, the so-called Real IRA, which has been blamed for a series of explosions in the province and in Britain. On Wednesday, soldiers defused a 45-pound car bomb outside Belfast International Airport, believed to have been planted by the Real IRA.>
catholic.org
<Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, said "I condemn the bombing without any equivocation whatsoever." It was the first time he had condemned a Republican bombing. >
It's interesting that Omagh and Osama nearly rhyme. I wonder how many readers know about Omagh.
Some of the war against terrorism could take place right there in the USA. For example, Bill Clinton's direct debits could be checked [he's allegedly an Irish American]. There are others in SI who know people personally who send money to the IRA. They are the front line in the war against terrorism. Cobalt Blue is one such person. The IRA killed and maimed a family of New Zealand tourists in the Tower of London [a purely tourist interest]. Those Irish Americans who have given money to the IRA should be as pleased with themselves as those people who funded the WTC destruction. Those who are 'friends of' or 'know some people' who give money to the IRA are in the terrorist bomb club. I expect the children of Omagh feel pain as much as the children of WTC or children of Oklahoma [good grief, there's another rhyme - Osama, Omagh, Oklahoma ... X file time].
I would love to read that there were a whole bunch of Irish Americans working on one of the top floors in the WTC building who were planning another rally for Gerry Adams or The Real IRA. Every one of them would save some other innocent IRA victim's life
It's nauseating to read that Jacques Chirac claims that France is one of the countries which is against terrorism and has always been. France, under that international state terrorist Mitterrand, [may he fry in hell for a billion years], conducted the only terrorist attack in New Zealand [other than a suitcase bomb at a union office which killed one person].
<I wouldn't count Gulfstream out so quickly...private aviation is far more secure than the airlines, and executives don't have to waste extra hours waiting to check through security. I'll bet that prices of used corporate jets, turboprops and heavy twins will rise rapidly for a while.>
I think people will quickly figure out that travel on airlines is not something to worry about. There should be space available right now! Queues at airports will quickly be reduced as airlines figure that if they cause huge delays they will lose business to more efficient airlines which provide plenty of security to avoid delays.
Given the financial downturns and dot.gones, I guess the corporate jet market is way down. The wealth effect is a distant memory now for nearly everyone.
It's time to watch for danger elsewhere now.
Mqurice
PS: It used to seem absurd to me that airlines left the cockpit open to anyone to wander in. I've sat just behind cockpits and there were all the controls and a couple of relatively defenceless pilots presuming that some wacko wasn't about to get bad ideas. I bet it's not an easy walk through to the cockpit now. |
