College Student, The TSA and Southwest Airlines (A Poll!)

[davetheflyer]

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What should've been done is analyze and monitor terrorist organizations and try to predict/match their next moves, not waste time treating ordinary americans like the prison population with these airport "prove your innocence" checkpoints.


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That makes way to much sense to be taken seriously in Foggy Bottom. Why do something that might work when you can create a huge new federal bureaucracy and possibly even unionize the workers to expand your power base?

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the last line of defense being the crash axe in the cockpit.


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Or the FFDO's pistola!

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It's hard to get access to the flight deck if you can't get past the door and more difficult when there's a pilot sitting there with the crash axe ready to take your head off if you do manage to get in.



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I don't think that a door has been made that can't be breached. This is especially true on aircraft where weight restricts the materials that can be used. 'Nuff said.

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a hijacked plane will NOT be allowed to hit a target. It will be shot down.

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A viable strategy but it is a lose-lose proposition for us. They crash where the want to for maximum damage or they get shot down in the boonies, either way we lose and they win. Maybe they just don't win as big as they wanted. Besides, what makes you think that they believe that we have the intestinal fortitude to shoot down one of our own civilian airliners?

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I think we ought to be trying to anticipate the next tool the terrorists will use instead of fighting the last war.

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Agreed.