At 07:00 PM 9/20/2001 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Anti-aircraft missiles are the answer.
We should have a government program to distribute anti-aircraft missiles. Every able-bodied American should be armed with one. Stinger missiles use a shoulder launch carrier and can be fired without much technical training.
Any time an aircraft appears to be off course or behaving oddly, anyone in the area can shoot it down. This will be much safer and more reliable than a gunfight on the airplane.
Let's seem 'em go after our nuclear plants or dams, knowing that vigilant Americans stand ready to defend these structures with lethal force, never mind the cost in lives! After all, the more arms people possess, the safer the world will be. That seems to be the philosophy of prominent cypherpunks.
Stay tuned for: Why should only TERRORISTS have suitcase nukes?
The comedian Gallagher trod this ground in the early 80s. [from memory] "This whole rigamarole with hidden missile silos and underground train tracks to ferry missiles from one silo to another? Arm every American with an ICBMW - that's an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Winnebago. No one would dare try anything, they'd know that every weekend, we would have a million Americans out on the road with a sixpack and an itchy button finger, just waiting for something to go wrong...." Reese