[TML] Gurps Traveller

[Terry Carlino]

Evyn MacDude wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Christopher Hilton wrote:
>
>   
>> The skys are much safer now. But it's not because of what you can and
>> cannot bring onto an airplane. It's because the airlines have  
>> restricted
>> access to the cockpit and because the passengers will no longer sit by
>> in like sheep expecting a good outcome.
>>     
>
> Keep thinking that, all it does is weed out the dumb ones. If they  
> want the
> plane they will have it. In general we are no more secure than we were
> prior to 9/11.
>   
Very true, by the afternoon of 9/11 it was quite clear that passengers 
were no longer going to sit by and allow terrorist to use plane as 
weapons against their fellow citizens, even at the cost of their own 
lives. So if you mean that as airline passengers we are no more secure 
than we were on 9/11 then I have to agree with you. If you mean that 
terrorist are as free to use planes as weapons as they were on the 
morning of 9/11 I would have to disagree with you. For you see we are 
never very secure if we expect others to protect our security while we 
stand by as spectators immune from harm and unwilling to risk our own 
selves. I think we've learned that lesson. Terrorist might indeed blow 
up a plane, I doubt they will find a plane full of passive passengers 
who will stand by while the fly hundreds of miles to crash into a building.


-- 
TerryC
All that is Gold does not glitter
Not all who travel are lost