Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Teresa Lo who wrote (1796)	9/14/2001 1:20:44 AM
From: Susan G	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Airline employees intentionally breach security September 14, 2001 Posted: 12:24 AM EDT (0424 GMT) PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- Three Northwest Airlines employees intentionally breached a security checkpoint at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix as flights resumed Thursday. Two ground crew employees cleared the checkpoint with a pocketknife and a corkscrew while a pilot passed without proper identification, airport spokeswoman Suzanne Luber said. "Once they did that, they turned around and said, 'Hey, look what we did,"' she said. Their point: to show that security gaps still exist days after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, she said. Airport officials evacuated the terminal's north concourse and swept it for dangerous materials. Nothing was found and the concourse was reopened. Luber said she did not know what happened to the three employees. "We would ask that nobody intentionally try to break security," she said. Airport spokesman David Cavazos said the matter was referred to the Federal Aviation Administration. A Northwest spokesman didn't immediately return a call Thursday. Northwest provided limited service for a short time Thursday but it had canceled all flights by the evening, without providing details. cnn.com

To: Teresa Lo who wrote (1796)	9/14/2001 1:58:37 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Teresa Teresa, I feel relieved that you have reversed your opinion since you started this thread. I know how easy it is to slip into a mass hysteria and fall an easy prey to the chaos that these terrorists want the situation to become. I have lived overseas, am not a Muslim myself, But I grew up as a child where religious and other forms of hatred is rampant. Look at the Balkans, look at the hatred there. Look at the Aryan movement. Look at the religious fundamentalists. Look at the Commies. They all have one thing in common. Their own ideologies and their will to impose it at all costs. And the minimum we can do is to help fight it and that is to be ever vigilant and not to fall into the trap. As the President rightly said: We Americans are very very good people and we are so good that it gives us a lot of pain to do something "not good" which is to kill. But sometimes we will put up with that pain to kill and take comfort in the fact that we will go after and kill all right, but it will be only those people who themselves are evil and have killed others. So for every tear that falls to the ground from the eyes of every American, there will be a bullet born to pierce the heart of each and every terrorist, Communists (Castro), religious fundamentalist or whoever. And those are the tears of Americans who are Muslims, Jews, Whites, Blacks, fathers, mothers, brothers etc. God bless America