Airline Security
Michelle Malkin writes about the current state of airline insecurity. Federalizing the whole thing only insured to hire the same people at twice the pay and three times the waste with the fringe benefit of goosing grandmothers instead of looking for terrorists. There is one thing to note though. There will be new plane hijacking a la 9/11. The terrorists have moved on from that tactic because it was a one-time stunt and won’t work again. The passangers will never let someone hijack another plane again. Remember Robert Reid - the Shoe Bomber? It wasn’t airline security that prevented him (though it should have), it was the passengers who beat the man to a bloody stump with three doctors drugging him into a coma. Even if marshalls were on that flight, they’d have to climb over 50 people who all took turns beating this guy.
Terrorists are going to pick another vector. If they choose the same one all the time, it just causes people not to fly. A problem, but not a crisis. The next hit, if there is one, will be something entirely different an unexpected. That’s how terrorism works. You make people afraid because they don’t know where the next attack comes from.
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