Knowing what hijackers are capable of now, what would you do if you were on a plane and a group of hijackers began taking over?
Would you stand and fight, calling on your fellow passengers to fight with you?
What if the terrorists were armed with guns or claimed to have a bomb? Would you still fight back, risking getting shot or the bomb going off?
Would you use your cell phone to call authorities knowing that fighters may arrive to shoot the plane down so as to avoid an even bigger death toll?
mike.
What would YOU do, knowing what we know?
by Bendrr 6 Replies latest jw friends
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Bendrr
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Nicolas
I think, I would try anything to stop him because anyway, you know that you'll die if you don't do something when the hijackers want to crash a plane into something.
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AmazingProgeny
I have a husband, four children, lots of extended family, and no desire to die. But, if I was in that situation I would do everything in my power (however small that might be) to stop these evil people. I would have done that before the recent attacks and I see no reason to change my mind. Maybe I would help and maybe I would change nothing, but at least I would know that I did SOMETHING.
AmazingProgeny
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mustang
The hijackers have gone too far: they have violated an 'unwritten contract'. That was 'behave and no one gets hurt'. Now it's 'we are going to kill you anyway'. No one will ever believe them again.
Add to that, passengers are MAD; and that's not just Americans.
SCREW THE HIJACKER(S).
Arm the pilots, add SkyMarshals; the pilots don't come out for ANYTHING and land ASAP.
OTHER THINGS WILL BE DONE TO BACK UP THESE OPTIONS.
You can't put the genie back in this bottle.
Mustang
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LDH
Let me put it this way.
I'd hate to be named Moustafa or Ahmed on any flight right about now.
One wrong move and WWF SMACKDOWN.
Lisa
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Teirce
Right now I'm imagining ascenario where the hijackers insist that they only wish to land the plane at an unplanned destination. They have passengers under knife and gun, etc, but insist that no one will die if everyone cooperates. Being that the people are offered this little bit of light at the end of the tunnel, and if the terrorists play their cards right by keeping everyone alive, then I can see everyone giving no resistance. They'd stay sane and peaceful until they saw the next target building looming in the distance, and the uncomfortable intuition that the plane just now banked 'just so'.. At this point, it is probably too late for the agape of sacrificing one planeload to overcome the hijacker pilots, and, there will be loss of life on the ground.
I'd say it's time for new tacit rules.
1. Obviously, everyone in possession of a cell phone should be using the hell out of it, as possible, if only to get voice prints of highjackers and provide some augmentation or replacement for the blackbox, plus to give some idea of available heroism.
2. If the pilot is killed or replaced by terrorist pilots, the passengers have a high certainty that they need to do the right thing.
3. If the passengers are herded to the back of the plane, there's a high chance that they need to do the right thing.
4. Terrorists are possessed of an inner single-minded vision. There are many accounts of Americans who gave their lives to save a drowning, snowbound, inferno, etc, victim. There's a place in the lizard brain that can tap into a righteous rage that can save lives, and Americans don't have to be too civilized to use it, now that we've been served formal notice what the new rules are.
5. God help the terrorist who screws up and actually f'n Tells the passengers they're going to die. I hope he gets a big, wet, loving, ocular noogie in his last moments.
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TR
This is a link from my "How to Handle Highjackers" thread: http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20010919-6357240.htm
TR
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
—Edmund Burke