Hijack Allert, yeah right!

[Typhoon1244]

Let me get this straight:

The government announces it's going to cut back on Air Marshals because there's not such a big threat. Then suddenly, there's a big threat. Now instead of cutting back, they're hiring more.

Coincidence?

 

[LR25]

The Unabomber, Ted K (I am not even going to try and spell that last name), was a white, American born, U.S. citizen. Guess what, he bombed airplanes.

Tim McVeigh was a decorated U.S. Army verteran who blew up a buch of children because he was mad at the government.

Eric Rudolph was a white, middle class American.

Three of the most notorious terrorists in the US, behind the 9/11 gang, were white Americans. How do you profile them?

We didnt know that these people where our ememy, but we know who the enemy is now. There making it public that they are.

There out there, there just waiting for the oportunity. Dont get me wrong, Im not one of those that is a fatalist and I'm looking out of my window questioning every little thing I see, but I remember when I was working in the airlines, in DCA of all places, and the TSA worker let me through to the gate after I went and got something to eat and he just gave me the wave, he didnt want to see my ID, and I said to him,
"do you want to see my ID" he said in a uninterested manner, no.

So just becuase I had a uniform on, it was all good.

Its this lack of attention and the new rules from the TSA, the falsehood that the TSA is operating on that is very discouraging.

So you can get an E ticket, a fake ID and you to can get the big wave from your friendly TSA representative.

It has to change, and the people in charge are not footing the bill.

There is a simple solution.


If FDR and the government in the early 40's where the way we are today, we would drawing up santions with Japan and Germany to this day.

 

[TurboS7]

It is like the general said when the sergant(sp) said they couldn't find the enemy. He said,"make one."

 

[s.o.sJTB]

You cannot reason with these people they have sworn to convert us or kill us.

Stay out of there country and politics and they will probably stay out of ours. But we need the oil, as an Airline Pilot I know this, and the decisions my "representative's" in the government have made havent been in the best interest of the people they are supposed to represent. The problem with US policy in the Middle East didnt start on 9/11/01, thats just when it was brought to most of America's attention.

 

[Ben Dover]

news flash

Hate to break the news to you, but profiling is already happening. Atleast that's the only possible reason I get selected EVERYTIME I ride in the back of a plane since 9/11.

As far as I can tell here are the profile criteria:
1. Middle aged American male
2. Airline pilot
3. Successfully passed FAA background check
4. Access to bypass door, but not using it because I'm off duty
5. Spends countless hours in the cockpit of commercial aircraft, but no need to search on the way to work, only if on vacation and wanting to sit in cabin.

 

[bart]

If you look Middle Eastern and get out of your seat during a critical phase of flight and I am there, you die, by whatever means I have available, up to and including grabbing your trachea and pulling it out of your neck.

I am sure I will do this while the rest of the plane either joins in or at least cheers me on.

 

[fLYbUDDY]

You cannot reason with these people they have sworn to convert us or kill us.

sounds like the extream left in this country!

 

[Otto_Pilot]

WHAT??? NO WAY!

No Bruce!

How many more freedoms do we have to give up for these yahoos?

How about locking down the borders? No greencards! Everybody go home. In California during the great depression all non-resident workers were sent back to their country of origin to protect jobs for American workers!

For a change we should worry about our own country before we go around trying to solve the world's problems. In case Pres. Bush hasn't noticed, there is higher unemployment than there has been in 3 decades. The economy is in deep recession and Greenspan's only tool (interest rates) does not seem to be kicking it in the butt this time.

Let's get our house in order first, then we can go back to taking in everybody's "wretched refuse yearning to be free". In the meantime lets get out of foreign-oil (or at least middle-eastern oil). Lets find an environmentally friendly way to drill in the alaskan frontier. Lets require all auto manufacturers to use hybrid cars by 2010.

We can bankrupt the middle east, stay the heck OUT of their countries, and be done with them in less than a decade! They (radical muslim) think we're too materialistic? No problem. Lets let their countries sit on some useless oil wells for 50 years and maybe they'll change their mind about the way they want to interact with the rest of the world.

I'm TIRED of giving things up. I'm TIRED of having my shoes searched. I'm TIRED of little kids being wanded. I'm TIRED of not being able to use the lav in flight. I'm TIRED of secret passwords in DCA. I'M TIRED of every single pilot I have known from my youth struggling to kick-start their careers after their 2nd, 3rd. or 4th furlough! I'M TIRED of listening to the nightly news and hearing story after story about how these morons have nothing better to do than formulate new ways to SCARE us so they can go to heaven and be rewarded by their 40 virgins.

Where are their men of peace? In every country and every religion there are men of peace who rises up and works towards cooperation, friendship. Where is Muslim's Jimmy Carter? Where is Muslim's Mother Theresa? Heck, i'd even settle for Muslim's Jessie Jackson??!!

They hate us that bad? Fine. Get out of our country and stick your oil where the sun don't shine! If, however, the Muslim nations want to get their act together and learn to be a PART of the new world economy then they need only get a handle on their extremeists, STOP playing messages of hate on Al'Jazeera, and learn that regardless of how much they love their religion it is not necessary that the entire world convert to Islam.

(Sorry...had to vent. Security at G/A ramps...sheesh)

 

[enigma]

Otto-Pilot

bravo

enigma

 

[WrightAvia]

American isolationism helped start World War II.

 

[stillaboo]

Prejudice

1.
a. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
b. A preconceived preference or idea.
2. The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions. See Synonyms at predilection.
3. Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion.
4. Detriment or injury caused to a person by the preconceived, unfavorable conviction of another or others.
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This is what 'the Klan' and Louis Farakhan do, guys. Now the TSA and pilots too, huh? You have every right to think this, as long as you don't act on it. I think some of you act on it, though.

-Boo!