Airline Security Today: BOGU

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 04 Oct 2001 05:37:40 GMT
Chip Bok - Welcome To Paradise, Boys - cartoon commentary on the wages of murder-suicide. [market]

Claire Wolfe at Backwoods Home Magazine - So What Does a Freedom Lover Do NOW? - practical advice on preparing for the future in the light of Bloody Tuesday.

Vin Suprynowicz - 'Stop complying now ... Don't give the government-regulated airlines your business' - part of The Libertarian series. Vin hasn't decided if he'll join Aaron Zelman in his boycott of the airlines until they encourage the citizen militia (that's you and me) to travel armed. But he respects the idea, as do I.

The threat of bankruptcy is precisely the goad that might finally motivate some of these mincing wimps, these accessories to murder, to post signs declaring that armed passengers are welcome -- please check in at the gate to top off your magazines with complimentary frangible ammo.

Vin Suprynowicz - To slip one through while no one's looking - part of The Libertarian series. Ted Kennedy, the socialist senator from Taxachusetts, attempted to slip through legislation to "create a new federal agency to force states and local governments to give Big Labor bosses monopoly bargaining power over their police, firefighters, county paramedics, and other public safety officers ... soaking state and local taxpayers for hundreds of millions of dollars annually in increased costs." Fortunately, somebody noticed.

I just received a bunch of new articles in The Libertarian series, catching up for the dry period since 8/14. Vin's been writing them, but they weren't being sent out. Mailing list management has now changed hands. Hopefully, they'll come regularly once again. Here are links to the others:

Betsy Hart at Scripps Howard News Service via Nando Times - New attitudes about gun control - in the wake of Bloody Tuesday, people are buying guns. I did. If you didn't, what are you waiting for? [market]

Sure, there are other things to focus on right now. But when the smoke finally clears, we'll notice something else on the new political landscape: that it will be a long, long time before Gun Control Inc. dares to advocate curbs on the Second Amendment again.

Michael Z. Williamson at KeepAndBearArms.com - Where Does It End? - making airline passengers more helpless does not make them safer, exactly the opposite. Anyone who wants can still sneak a weapon on the airplane. Preventing this leads to a world that most of us don't want to live in. It would require cavity searches of all passengers, wearing government supplied clothing on the flight, and wearing leg irons and handcuffs for the duration of the flight. And even that won't keep you safe. The only thing that works is the ability to defend yourself, with extreme prejudice. [kaba]

Which would you prefer? Head to toe search and grope, prod and poke, paper coveralls and Brave New World treatment...

...or a helpful attendant asking, "Can I get you anything? Coffee? Tea? Low velocity .380?"

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