Cyrus Afzali wrote:
> Air marshals are federal law enforcement authorities, and as
> such, have no territorial limits.
The air marshall program is faulty from a human-factors point of view.
People are not designed to have a job where they do not perform, on a
routine basis, the activities for which they were trained.
Imagine fire-fighters, police, doctors, who are trained to perform
certain activities and then go day in and day out, showing up for
work, and then just sit there. Never to get a call to attend a fire,
or a break-and-enter, or never get a patient to treat.
And quite likely, as this case I'm sure will clearly show, this air
marshall, who has performed ONLY ONCE the task for which he was
trained, will likely quit (or be retired from) the marshall service
and fade into a psychologically-troubled obscurity.
Let this be a lesson to all air Marshalls. If you act in the service
of your training, most likely it will be a false alarm, most likely
you will kill or injure innocent bystandards or a mentally-deranged
target, and most likely it will be the end of your air-marshall career
regardless of the outcome. |