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To: Sector Investor who wrote (36200)	10/8/2001 8:03:27 PM
From: Greg h2o	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

<<Also, when I flew down to LA some guy was going through the checkpoint and had, in his pocket, one of those industrial strength 12-in-one knives - big 'un - and he was shocked that they were confiscating it. Where the hell has this guy been for 3 weeks?>> heck, had he been on the plane with that knife, he might have been able to stop the terrorist attack! here's to hoping the sky marshalls are properly armed.

To: Sector Investor who wrote (36200)	10/8/2001 8:15:47 PM
From: Dee Jay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

seems as if the rules changed not too long ago - maybe pocket knives, carton slitters, nail files were considered not terribly important so long as they did not have a barrel or a trigger... Now that the lesson has been learned I think we're going to see a need to spend a whole lot more on security, not only in the technical detection aspects but in personnel - better educated, perhaps "smarter" people with the kind of savvy and initiative those passengers showed today on the jet headed to O'Hare, probably armed individuals permanently stationed at airports in greater numbers than heretofore. And that means $$ - a whole lot more because there's truth in the saying "you get what you pay for" - and the public is going to demand it. This isn't a political diatribe but an interpretation of the message we've been broadsided with along with the question - where do we go from here? No disrespect for the people who have traditionally filled the role but if we're going to beef up security then that's what we're going to have to do - hire and train better and keep on doing it. IMHO Dee Jay