Here’s an idea that no one will use because it requires all of us to act together, and God help us if we ever do that: REFUSE TO FLY! Sure, precautions must be taken in the face of terrorism; but, have you noticed that Israel, which has had to deal with this problem a lot longer than we have, manages to get the job done without terrorizing innocent people in the process? We CAN stop this; all we have to do is REFUSE TO FLY! All of the FBI agents and SWAT teams in America can’t FORCE us to fly. When the airlines REALLY face bankruptcy (not the kind that they whined about immediately post-911; that was just a manufactured emergency that allowed them to raise fares, like the manufactured energy crisis of the 70′s that allowed the energy companies to raise rates), they will force the government to stop using the Rambo movies as proceedural manuals, and figure out a way to keep people safe without terrorizing them in the process. This will never happen, though, because the one thing we Americans can’t do is hang together. Because of that, as someone once said, we will hang seperately.
