HOW MANY HI-JACKINGS HAS THER BEEN SINCE 9/11?!?
YOU ALL SHOULD BE PRAISING THE EFFORTS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE FINE PEOPLE!
How many were there before?
If you look at the Stats, Hijacking a aircraft wasn't something that happened everyday.
The point some of us are making is that when you compare the way it was, too the way it is now, very little has been accomplished besides the inconvienence of the innocent.
I really haven't seen any proof that the airlines and flying in general is any safer now than it was before with lesser but more effective security measures.
I also think that the threats that have been thwarted you mention, have been the same before the tragic date that is being used as the main reference point but now it is just made more public than in the past. It is now "news" where before the threat was stopped and no one thought twice about it.
And the reason there have been no other successful attemts by terrorists is because they aren't looking at aircraft at the present time, they are looking for something that isn't being watched, the least expected. And with all the attention on aircraft that the Govenment is focusing on it is leaving all sorts of other possiblities open for attacks by other means to be planned undetected. and only when IT happens will people say "We never thought they would do that" and that is when we all will realize that too much attention was put towards one thing instead of looking for the other.
Point is I think and I'm sure some others will agree that too much time, money, and effort is being wasted on aircraft and flying in general, whereas it should be used for looking at the other possibilities that exists!
And like CraigL has stated and others including myself have said before it isn't only the Government agencies that are too blame but the people with the lack of attention and skill that are placed in the position of "protecting" us that is allowing the "illegal" items to pass through security.
I don't want to sound like I'm not giving credit where credit is due. The Government has done allot in trying to make flying safe for all but I think it has reached the point of overkill and it isn't as effective as they would like you to belive. After all they are the Government, they have a big reputation to uphold and will do anything to prove they are "doing the job". That includes lying and putting the lives of others at stake, and telling people what they want to hear to make them think that something is being done!
This is the way the Govenment has always done things and they always will.
" Don't you think if a terrorist thought they could hi-jack a plane right now they would. It would be a HUGE statement saying "YOU CAN'T STOP US". But they haven't. Why? Intel and security."
No!
Why would they? I have said this before and will again. Terrorist's point in life is to instill fear in all people on earth. And that work is being done for them, and being done by the same people who are "out to stop them".
The Government. You see they are using the Government combined with the media to do thier dirty work.
They would love nothing more than to be a army big enough to just start a war against "good" and fight to the death without care, but because there are far more good than evil they have to resort to "fear" as their main weapon and watch us all self destruct! And that is what is happening, we all are scared, scared about what might happen next, where is it going to happen, how is it going to happen etc. That is thier goal make us "fear" them and that is exactaly what is happening!
They are slowly eating away at the lives of every human being, by fear, and even financally and economically. And they aren't even doing anything, we are doing it too ourselves! They are sitting back watching, and planning for their next move. So when they see that we are no longer jumping at our own shadows they will strike again to reassure us that they are still there.
by Hagar » Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:19 am 
