[Elkiejg]

What amazes me when I read some of the comments about our "civil liberties" being violated is the total lack of awareness that unless we track, profile terrorists, we're not going to have a country for Hillary or any other RAT to govern.

[cva66snipe]

The terrorist threat is not new by any means. I remember this one very well. Did we surrender our rights then? BTW these are now free men. I read an article on one of them recently. But here's an article another freeper found concerning that event.

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York brought back memories of the hijacking of a Southern Airways DC-9 in November 1972. The three Americans who hijacked the plane after a stopover in Birmingham, Alabama, threatened to force the pilots to crash the plane into the Oak Ridge facilities. (One of the hijackers had worked at Oak Ridge.) They demanded $10 million “ransom.” Promised $2 million, they forced the pilots to fly to Havana, where the plane landed safely. (Frank Munger, Knoxville News-Sentinel, 9/14/01; Duncan Mansfield, Associated Press, 9/19/01)

End of article

IMO they are not better or worse than the ones who flew the planes into the WTC. They are still terrorist. Arm the pilots, hire more Marshalls, arm the cabin crew but stop using it as a means to pass more laws to further inflict more limitations upon those who are not terrorist.