On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:25:59PM -0500, MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/9/2005 1:36:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net> writes: > >Pocket knives make terrible weapons. ? There's no way one can hijack an ? > >airplane with one. ? The paranoia that makes them proscribed from ? > >airplanes is misdirected. > I thought it was a "box cutter" (razor blade in a protector). That's what is most widely discussed, yes. But you don't hijack airplanes with what you smuggle on board. You hijack airplanes with *fear* and *hope*. Fear that you will kill the pilot and the passengers if they resist; hope that if they do not resist, the plane will land safely and everyone will go home. So long as we remember 9/11/2001, no one can repeat it. After the first time, the terrorists can offer only fear... never hope. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/weblog/index.jsp