"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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The only reason that hijackings diminished in the last thirty years (not
fifty) is that a series of treaties and threats of armed intervention have
greatly reduced the number of safe havens for hijackers and terrorists. It
is the same methodology that finally defeated piracy on the high seas in
the
19th century. There are still pirates, of course, and there will continue
to
be thugs that try to take control of airplanes. But luggage screening will
not prevent these people from doing what they want any more than luggage
screening on sailing ships would have prevented mutiny and piracy.

Hey now Campbell, your kind of thining might cut into Linda Daschle's
advocacy fees. You better watch your ass.