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[ST] Highjackings with plastic knives



        The pilot's union has been warning us for decades, that U.S.
has been in harm's way due to having the poorest airport security
among the Western nations, because of the unwillingness of the
Dept.of Transportation to spend money on state-of-the-art equipment.

        The greatest irony in yesterdays tragedies were the use of
KNIVES, some made of plastic, to hijack the aircraft.  When the Air
Lines first started carrying the U.S. Mail in the mid-1920s, Federal
Regulations required all pilots to have a loaded weapon in their
possession when in the cockpit.  Had that regulation remained in
effect (it was reversed by the do-gooders in the 1950s), it is very
probable that no U.S airliner would ever have been successfully
hi-jacked, and certainly no attempt at hi-jacking could have resulted
in anything like the catastrophic carnage we saw today.  The money
the Federal Government has wasted on trying to protect us from
ourselves in so many ways, if spent on protecting us from terrorists,
would have gone a long way toward preventing this monumental tragedy.

        'Lord protect me from my friends;... I'll protect myself from
my enemies!'       -       Anon

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