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9/11 style terrorism was solved by reinforcing the cockpit doors. Everything else has been police state fear mongering.
by guelo 12y ago
9/11 style terrorism was solved by reinforcing the cockpit doors. Everything else has been police state fear mongering.
- gaius 12y agoIt was solved as soon as ordinary passengers realized that hijackers didn't want hostages anymore. The cockpit door thing is security theatre too.
- gizmo686 12y agoThere was 1 coordinated attack where the hijackers did not want hostages. If I am a passenger on a hijacked plane, my guess would be that they are in it for the ransom.
- marssaxman 12y agoThen you are the problem. From now on airline passengers must simply assume that all terrorists are suicide bombers and act accordingly, fighting back with all available means; thus will we ensure that airline hijackings remain unviable.
- gizmo686 12y agoHaving a self destruct feature that automatically engages when an airplane is hijacked would also make make hijackings unviable. If you respond as if the hijackers are suicide bombers, when they really only want a ransom, then you risk some or all of the hostages getting injured or dyeing, as well as the potential for the plane, which would otherwise have landed safely, to crash into a populated area as the hijackers are distracted from piloting the plane, or the passenger may decide to be heroes and take over (crashing either deliberately or by accident).
- sandstrom 12y agoThis. It saddens me that 10+ years later the theatre is still running in every-single-airport around the world (admittedly in varying degree). http://www.terminalcornucopia.com/ http://www.terminalcornucopia.com/