[per loin]

Yes. If all Americans would learn to immediately obey each and every order given them by any and every bureaucrat, armed or unarmed, we could live in freedom without such hassles.

[Arkinsaw]

Yes. If all Americans would learn to immediately obey each and every order given them by any and every bureaucrat, armed or unarmed, we could live in freedom without such hassles.

You seem to think the only two options are obey every order or none and that obeying ANY is bad. That doesn't fly and does nothing to determine whether the marshals particular order was worth obeying.

[moteineye]

That is not the point.The air-marshall felt that someone could rush up the aisle to the cockpit. He had no way of knowing if there were other perpetrators in the back cabin,There could have been a pretend, regular passenger waiting for events to shake out to make their move.Two or three passengers could get up pretending to use the restroom etc.Many hijackings have had more than one hijacker.Some hijackings involve 4,5 or 6 people.The lives of all the passengers was at stake.Who knows what this psgr. said. He could have implied such.
Obeying air marshalls and the pilots and flight attns. at 60,000 feet is imperative during a situation .They have more information that any passenger. Passengers were in the way of the air-marshalls trying to ascertain what was happening. These passengers were dumb and stupid..Passengers walking around could have been imperiling the lives of everyone on that flight.If they had remained seated the air marshall could have relaxed his stance. If this marshall had accidently shot someone It would have been because of these arrogant passengers refusing to comply in an emergency.