The Politics of Flight 93

Reports ta the Folks Back Home ^ | 16 September 2002 | Congressman Billybob (J. Armor, Esq.)

[Congressman Billybob]

Because this is very muuch in the interests of the citizens of FreeRepublic, I've posted the whole colmn, rather than just putting up a link under my signature.

[OldFriend]

Let's hope we act as bravely as the two stewardesses did when the shoe bomber tried to light the fuse on a bomb hidden in his shoe.

No longer will anyone sit passively by and wait to die while terrorists do their ugly deeds.

A new hero in our midst......EUNICE STONE

[What Is Ain't]

Nicely done!

[NorCoGOP]

What would you have done, on Flight 93?

I think we have a new FReep sign idea!

[Robert_Paulson2]

what would flight 93'ers do???

WWF93D?

[Congressman Billybob]

I hope you're right about the "new sign" idea. Also, I encourage Freepers to add their own choices to this column and predict what their choices would have done.

Billybob

[genefromjersey]

Thanks for a great post !

[SES1066]

My Answer comes from Thomas Paine: "THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."

I beleive that I would have joined in, there really was no other logical action to take.

[First_Salute]

If on September 11, 2001, there had only been one flight hijacked, and it was Flight 93 --- who would be standing by these people who mustered as a militia, which is our right, and affected martial power against their common enemy?

I submit that the "higher-ups" of politico-Republi-canery would have joined with the pack of groupe-nationalizing socialist Democrats in the politics of personal destruction against each and every one of the militia.

No matter the feeble records from the militia, in the hands of the public --- in spite of the government efforts to squelch it.

The acts of the militia in the skies over Pennsylvania, would have been severely condemned as "taking the law into their own hands" as the worst of "the vast right-wing" ... and "see what these 'vigilantees' are like?!"

In addition, I submit that federal government's reaction would be exactly every step taken to date, both abroad and at home:

Surgical attacks upon some terrorists "over there," because the opportunity affords it, and strict inside the airport security here.

For you may see that from such steps taken, what actually is the response of the federal government and the Bush [still running 75% of the Clinton] Administration.

[Trickyguy]

What would I have done on Flight 93? I would have taken
my .357 Sig that I should been allowed to carry on the plane,
and shot every terrorist dead before they cut anyone's
throat.

[Tom Bombadil]

I can think of no other nation on earth where the passengers on a hijacked plane would try to take it back. Even with the knowlege that the ultimate mission was one involving suicide pilots.

Only here in the United States would ordinary people take the initiative as they did on flight 93. Europeans, South Americans, Asians, in my mind they would all have waited and hoped for the best.

That American trait of individuals organizing and taking the initiative was Bin Laden's greatest oversight. May he not rest in peace.

[Honorary Serb]

To the Muslims in America: Would you have exchanged high-fives with your "brothers" on the plane? Wished them well? Accepted their apologies for the unfortunate need for your demise? Said with them, "Allah akbar," and asked to go to the cockpit so you could have a good view of the "glorious strike against the infidels"?

Unfortunately, all too many "American" muslims would do just that!!! All while asserting that "islam is peace", "suicide is not part of islam", and other assorted lies and evasions. (There ARE honest muslims, however, who realize that islam is on a very dangerous and violent course, both for muslims and for the Rest Of Us!)

[ErnBatavia]

Uh...not.

We don't need gunslingers on 747's.

[PsyOp]

Must Read Mega-Ping for Congressman Billybob's Question of the Millenium!

[maica]

Great column!
Eunice Stone is definitely Flight 93 material. I heard (only once) that she is a nurse. I like to think that is true, (I am a nurse) and nurses are accustomed to assessing situations and acting decisively on observations that they have made.

[PsyOp]

"How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful.... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more." - Henri Frederic Amiel, The Private Journal of.... 1883-4.

[PsyOp]

"Just as at the Olympic Games it is not the best-looking or the strongest men present that are crowned with wreaths, but the competitors (because it is from them that the winners come), so it is those who act , that rightly win the honors and rewards in life." - Aristotle, Ethics, Bk.I. c.334-23 B.C.

[PsyOp]

"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." - Thomas Carlyle.

[wimpycat]

This is from a book I read..."There comes a time in life when you just have to close your eyes, holler 'shit!' and shoot!"

[StriperSniper]

were turning it back toward Washington, to use it as a flying bomb against the Capitol of the United States where Congress was in session.

Hmmmm.....I guess I would have stopped them.......for the sake of that beautiful building.

(But exterminating that infestation would have been mighty tempting.)