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To: unclewest who wrote (147575)	11/18/2005 3:58:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

UW, I'm not arguing the rights or wrongs, or what things Clinton did, I'm just pointing out the dearth of imagination in the writer. It's a bit like Condoleezza saying nobody could have imagined hijackers walking into a cockpit with box-cutters and crashing aircraft into buildings. That's dopey. I sat directly behind cockpits in the USA, looking in the open door, thinking how insane it was that I could just stand up, take two steps and take over the aircraft. I'm sure other people must have thought the same at times. I didn't say anything at the time as air-crew [like others "in charge"] are notably stupid, authoritarian and get the wrong end of the stick. They would arrest me for making a terrorist threat. That was in the 1990s before they figured out that keeping cockpit doors shut and locked might be a good idea. Time after time after time I make suggestions which are ignored and the bad thing happens and then the authorities "find out what went wrong and make sure it never happens again", only to have them do the same thing wrong again the next day [mindless authoritarianism and being in charge]. I've learned to leave them to their mess and avoid being caught up in it as much as I can. Unfortunately, it's a bit compulsive and I still find myself trying to make things better - only to be ignored again. Now the dopey airlines take grannies nail clippers as though that's an improvement in security and hassle everybody. Nobody is going to hijack an aircraft again, even if they have a gun, because all the passengers will go berserk and the hijackers won't be able to shoot them all before they bury them in pillows, blankets, fists, belts, duty free bottles, weight of numbers, and then the pilot will be swinging the cockpit axe and whatever other weaponry they now carry. They could just about do away with airport security and leave it to passengers [if it wasn't for 'backpack' bombs, suicide belts etc]. Al Q is more likely to bring down apartment buildings having rented apartments across the USA and loading them up with explosives. They could do 100 simultaneously. Or, they could smuggle a noocular bomb in with a cargo of opium which the USA has got growing again in Afghanistan after the Taleban cut it way back. The customs guys will take their usual bribe and let the "opium" through [it's being sold to adults after all, so why not?] They wouldn't let a nuke through, but opium is okay. Mqurice