A plane inbound for Detroit was hit by a terrorist attack, but no one appears to have been hurt but the would-be terrorist.
It rather warms my heart to know that (A) nearly 10 years after 9/11, at least some passengers still know what to do, and (B) Al Qaeda is so weak it’s reduced to losers like this one.
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The passengers know what to do, the US Government doesn’t. The terrorist was evidently denied a visa to go to England. Allegedly the terrorists father went to the US Embassy in Nigeria to warn them not to allow his son into the country. Supposedly the suspect was on a US terrorism watchlist.
Apparently the US Government did nothing. Leaving it up to the passengers to do the government’s job.
Stefi has not flown since she arrived in this country from Europe via Lufthansa in the summer of 1968. I have not flown since I travelled from Madison to northeastern Indiana as a FEMA planning consultant in the spring of 1982. Ever since, we have travelled by train, auto or passenger ship.
We have no personal concern about what happens on airplanes, either from mis-design, mis-maintenance or intermittent enforcement of what ought to be body searches of all airlione passengers. The time inevitably will come when the Islam business conduces more passengers to dream up unheard of ways to kill more infidels by means of suicide bombs. I understand that one of the newer schemes are sausage-shaped high explosives that the would-be martyr shoves up his or her anus or her vaginal cavity.
One day, one of these will go off as planned, and many hundreds of people will lose their lives all at once. But there is not even the remotest chance that my wife and I will be two of them. Because we will be on the ground; travelling by motor car, passenger train or perhaps even aboard a ship, sipping our coffee and reading all about it on the Drudge Report.
The fact is, we have not trusted any security system for a long time, and especially those run by government bureaucracies.
For the rest of you, happy flight day. If that is where you want to put your trust.
Hopefully, it will not be your final destination.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Until I heard Janet N & Gregory on the telly I was impressed with how it went down. Janet says the guy was on a list, but not a no-fly list or a (can’t remember the correct term) a risky-guy list. So we (DHS, DOT or FBI) are apparently keeping a third-tier list of names for which no action is taken unless (presumably) the person on the list performs a terrorist act when (presumably) they go on a prosecutorial list.
I just don’t understand. If anyone has any insight or understanding, I would appreciate hearing it.
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