🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 25 May 2002 02:08:56 GMT, "JerryMouse" <nospam@invalid.com>
wrote:

>
>"Chicago Paddling-Fishing" <jwn@ripco.com> wrote in message
>news:acl29p$sqk$1@gail.ripco.com...
>> JerryMouse (nospam@invalid.com) wrote:
>> <snip>
>> : It's kinda hard to land a 707 that's jinking 'n dinking 'n diving 'n
>> : climbing 'n twisting 'n looping 'n bouncing all over the place.
>>
>> Up a few hundred feet, down a few hundred feet a few times might well
>knock
>> out someone who isn't belted in... after all, when the plane dives, unless
>> your belted to it, your body doesn't dive with it, that's how the 0g plane
>> works...  All you have to do is get that plane on the ground someplace in
>> one piece and turn off the engines... the hijackers didn't learn how to
>take
>> off...  Once the plane is on the ground it's useless to them...  Once they
>> drop their boxcutter trying to protect themselves from bouncing around in
>> the plane, they might be considerably easier to deal with too...
>>
>> Entire rows of seats have broken off in times when a airliner went up or
>> down too far too fast...
>
>There's always a 'sleeper' - a backup agent - who does not participate in
>the original attack. He stays in reserve and, presumably, buckled up.
>
>We'll get armed pilots eventually and this silliness will stop. The only
>question is how many hundreds (thousands?) have to die before Mineta has his
>mind changed for him.
>

Except the decsion wasn't made by Mineta, it was made by the head of
the Transportation Security Administration. The policy also has the
implicit support of your president, George W. Bush.