Holy cow...

[Joe R.]

At 11:21 PM 8/7/04 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Joe R. wrote:
>
>>    If you really want to stop airline hijacking. Lock the cockpit (that
>> STILL hasn't been fully impemented!), Arm all the pilots (Ha! They're still
>> not allowing ANY pilots to carry guns AFIK) and put one or more ARMED sky
>> marshalls on EVERY flight and announce that fact. How many hijackers with
>> paper cutters do you think would be willing to go up against an armed
>> marshall?
>
>It would cost a lot less (i.e. no tax hikes!) to just change foreign
>policy to reflect a more humble approach. 

  But Texico, Chevron, BP, IMF and Dick Cheney (among MANY others) will
never permit that to happen!
   my 2 cents worth,

    Joe



 If you go around acting the ass
>when you've already been bitch slapped, you just haven't figured it out
>yet.
>
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