terratogen wrote:
Decius wrote:
"This shows that the program has worked beyond our expectations," said Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.)
?? It appears they shot an innocent person. There are questions. Where the proceedures followed? Are the proceedures correct? Even if this is the best we can hope for it should not be trumpeted as a success. It is a failure and it deserves critical analysis.
The air marshals waited till he was reaching into his bag to shoot him... At that point, they more or less had to. I don't think it was a success because they didn't stop anyone from blowing anything up, but i think this sort of thing should be expected when people start running around with claims of a bomb in an airport. It's not a situation you can really give someone the benefit of "maybe he's kidding."
I still have yet to hear of airport security successfully stopping terrorists before they already managed to do what they got their tickets for... So airport security still remains a 100% failure.
I'm not convinced that putting armed martials on airplanes are the way to go. It's a token gesture. The reason airplanes were originally used was because they were an unexpected target, playing the proverbial game of whack-a-mole doesn't strike me as very effective.
