Look, you dumb fuckers, I guarantee you the next terrorist attack will not be on a plane. Stop obsessing about it. It would be like robbing the same bank twice.
If these idiots had been in charge after Pearl Harbor, we would have spent our entire war budget on widening harbor openings.
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Terrorists have been hijacking planes for years. Sept 11th was just the first time they did so in order to fly them into buildings (part of the reason they were actually able to get away with it). As such, I'm sure someone, somewhere, will try it again at some point. I sincerely hope that Our Fearless Leaders are spending the vast majority of their time thinking about other potentially exploitable weaknesses in the system and fixing them. In the meantime, however, wouldn't we feel stupid if we could have prevented copy-cat crimes with relatively standard technology (seems like it would be simpler than a walkie talkie) and chose not to? ~aw
There are lots of things we _could_ do. We could spend millions of dollars putting a ring of rubber around the head of every child in America because, well, wouldn't we feel stupid if some kids next year fall over, crack their heads open, and die when a rubber ring could have saved their lives?
This is about cost-benefit. It will cost a huge amount of money to outfit every stewardess on every flight in the air with a stupid little walkie-talkie. And it's not even clear if it would help much. I think the big $5 iron bolted locks they put on the cockpit will do a lot more to prevent someone from taking control of the planes than wireless headsets.
More to the point, though, is the cost-benefit of these committees spending their time on such assinine projects. These groups have limited manpower and limited time. I would much rather they spend their efforts on, oh, say, thinking about protecting the water supply than toys for the stewardesses.
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