I have to fly the end of the month. Usually I take my aviation headset and parachute on the plane because the craps expensive and I don't like to let it out of my sight. (I'm going to Tennessee to fly off the aerobatic restictions on a friends plane, hence the equipment need)Now I have to check this stuff in.
I just read that you will NEVER be able to go up into the statue of liberty again because the city of NY is worried about bombings and evacuations. I went up to the crown/head of the statue in 1975 when I was eleven. Will our children be able to see NY city from the top of the statue now? No they won't.
Until we take an extemely hardcore stance against terrorism they have won. Start profiling. Do 65 year old white grandma's carry shoe bombs onto airliners?, no they bake flippin' pies! I don't give a rats azz about political correctness any longer, (never did anyway) start strip searching 30ish middle-eastern looking men and women before flights. Restrict their movement anywhere they go. As somebody already said, "not all muslims are terrorists, but as of now all terrorist ARE muslim." Make it well known that if you DO pull off a bombing all of you're living relatives will be imprisoned, tortured, and killed after we learn all there is to learn from them. These are not uniformed military combatants, they are terrorist and you must treat them as such. Geneva convention rules only apply to military combantants. Kill them immediatly as they would offer YOU no better treatment if the roles were reversed!
We need to take a no BS stance on the countries that support terrorism, and we know who they are. It's time to do something about it. If it comes down to all the civilised countries versus the whole damn muslim world to make this right, I say sigh me up and lets do it now.
And before you scream "but they ARE a civilized group of people" do I need to remind you of all the tortured, mutilated, and decapitated bodies we have come to expect from these "civilised" people?
The muslim community offers nothing in the way of support when an attack happens, they don't go public denouncing the attacks, but the minute you mention tracking the responsible parties down they crawl out of the sand and cry "foul! you're penalizing all of us" Damn right and we should. It's the only way to stop this.
Jim T.
