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Smokin Dave wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:56:35 -0500, Tom Klemesrud <tomklem@WCTAtel.net> wrote:
> 
> >Who's Terrorizing Whom?
> >
> >If all those passengers carrying cell phones on Tuesday's ill-fated
> >airliners were allowed to exercise their constitutional rights to bear
> >arms, there would have been democracies on those planes; and, there
> >would have been no "Attack on America."
> >
> >-Tom Klemesrud
> 
> Hey Tom, I'm all for constitutional rights, indluding the right to bear arms.
> But allowing everyone to carry personal weapons onto an airplane? You're joking,
> right?

The notion of "freedom" and democracy is something that has been won in
conflicts with tyrants.  In most cases guns, or similar weapons of the
day, were used in these conflicts.

Tyrants are less inclined to pick on potential victims or would-be
slaves if there is sufficient threat that these victims might be able to
defend themselves.  Thus, we have in the United States the right to own
and bear arms--to protect our freedom and personal safety.

Like Scientology, Tuesday's terrorists took advantage of a glitch in our
constitutional law. Since the 1970's, on commercial airlines, (largely
because of arab terrorism), U.S. citizens have been temporarily striped
of their 2nd and 4th amendment rights, making the sort of terrorist
attack possible.  The oppressive government that did this has been
unable or unwilling to protect the flying public in this state of
vulnerability.

The solution is not further suppression of rights, but the restoration
of those rights, that returns control to the dynamic of the group that
flies, the ability to mediate in the control of their own fate. 

This in fact happened on the one of the four airplanes on which the
terrorists plans were foiled, saving untold lives.