Re: Sky Marshalls

Posted by Cory on October 08, 2001 at 17:20:53:

In Reply to: Sky Marshalls posted by grt8w9 on October 06, 2001 at 23:05:08:

: A friend of mine inthe Army was talking to me today about Sky Marshalls. These are men and women whose job it will be to fly on planes and eventually ride trains and buses and disable terrorists. Worked (?) in the 70's. This seems ridiculous to pay and train thousands of people to put on planes. These agents are not impervious to harm, or sleep, or bathroom breaks. Under no circumstances should a weapon be brought onto aplane of civillians. Also, there are dozens of ways to get around a federal agent...put twenty terrorists on a plane instead of two, posion the air, contaminate a drink, make your terrorist message on a building...the list goes on. This is paranoid and ridiculous.

Maybe they won't be effective stopping terrorists, but there are numerous cases of crazy people who start attacking the crew. I remember before the Sept 11 attacks that there was a lot of buzz about putting sky marshals on planes to prevent people like this.

-Cory

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