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>I think you're dead WRONG.
>What you're saying is that airplane "security" has to be set at the SCARDEST PERSON booked for the flight. That's ridiculous in the extreme!

I think you're too rational about this, Jim. Esp after 9/11 and that British "Shoe-bomber" jerk, I'd've been very nervous of these guys. It's no good thinking "Oh, it'll be alright" on the ground only to realise your mistake at 30,000 ft.

>You're also saying that the current 'standard' of threatening danger ("I have a gun" or "I'm gonna hijack this plane to Cuba" or things like that) are no longer in effect, replaced by some perceived "threat" by some over-sensitive person or some red-neck who dislikes some race or some other crap like that.
>The airline should have put the complainers off the plane.
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>When I fly these days I pay no attention to those waiting at the gate with me. But I do pay attention once on the plane to where I am and who's around me and who looks "shifty". And I'm ready to do my bit to help subdue anyone who does anything foolish. And I wouldn't dream of accusing someone of being so shifty looking that I want them off the plane.
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>Imagine I saw someone praying (in the standard "Christian" way) at a gate. I could easily conclude they were praying for success of their 'mission' to crash the plane into a building. I could then demand that they be taken off the plane????

Not at all. Devout christians don't particularly have a reputation for hijacking and/or blowing up/crashing aeroplanes. I'd more readily conclude that they were extremely nervous of flying and praying to The Lord for a safe journey.

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>Get real.

Yeah, like their confiscating nail files, sewing kits and wee scissors at check-in. Everyone's paranoid nowadays. In Bill Bryson's book "Down Under" a few years ago, he spoke of their confiscating his tiny pen-knife before the flight, then his being uissued with a far more effective and lethal steak knife for his in-flight meal.

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>To me that's ALL THE SECURITY WE NEED for people. Bombs are a different thing, but people hijacking a plane in North America are a ting of the past in my opinion.