security checkpoint wrote:
>http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/53968.htm
>"I'd like to know why [knives] are no longer a threat when they were a
>threat over the last four years," fumed Rep. Joseph Crowley
>(D-Queens)
Easy, they were never a threat. This is just a continuation of the
nonsense that the planes were hijacked with box cutters. As if waving
knives or box cutters or whatever would deter passengers from swamping
the hijackers in a post-9/11 world. The 9/11 hijackings worked
because of surprise - passengers who think they're merely gonna be
inconvenienced with a sidetrip to Cuba or wherever are not likely to
risk injury. But if the passengers are convinced they're likely to
die anyway, you think a little knife is gonna stop them? And you
think a future hijacker is gonna try it with a little knife?
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