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2011-03-02 Home Front: WoT

Boxcutters sneaked aboard airliner at JFK

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Posted by gorb 2011-03-02 14:28|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Oh... I feel soooo much safer.

Can we just defund and get rid of the TSA already? The only things they do is waste money and piss people off.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-02 14:59|| 2011-03-02 14:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not even convinced boxcutters should be banned on flights, especially after 9/11.

The 9/11 attackers used the boxcutters to blackmail the crew into giving them control of the plane, which then became the real terror weapon.

After 9/11 it is clear that giving in to such blackmail would mean certain death for all people on the plane and countless others on the ground. A terrorist threatening a hostage's life with a boxcutter would not have any leverage.

If the terrorists want to attack and kill innocents with knives or blades they can do so on the ground, without being bothered by security checks.

Posted by Javiper Whavimble3831 2011-03-02 16:49|| 2011-03-02 16:49|| Front Page Top

#3 They used boxcutters to murder people, Javiper, and terrorise the rest into submission. Blackmail is the wrong word.

Posted by Grunter 2011-03-02 17:16|| 2011-03-02 17:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody see anything about who Peraltalajara is beyond what has been said here?

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-02 17:21|| 2011-03-02 17:21|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not belittling what these islamofascistic scumbags did with the boxcutters.

My point is that much of the security measures after 9/11 was in fact security theater.

If passengers and crews on the 9/11 planes had known about the attacker's intentions they would not have been able to acquire their real weapons, the planes.

The extortion wouldn't have worked.

Yes, people would have been threatened, injured and killed but it wouldn't have been different from Sudden Jihad Syndrome on the ground, awful, but not something TSA style security could prevent.

IIRC some passengers on United 93 armed themselves with *butter knives* in their desperate attempt to wrest control of the plane from the attackers. Focusing on weapons instead of people is the wrong approach.

Posted by Javiper Whavimble3831 2011-03-02 18:15|| 2011-03-02 18:15|| Front Page Top

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