(continued)
Actually, it takes two things to hijack a plane: a determined hijacker, and
compliant passengers. In every single case where passengers have resisted
hijackers over the past 30 years, the hijackers lost. So, it's not
bravado, and it's not theory. It's empirical fact. Sometimes the passengers
were killed, too, but usually not. Two things would help improve the odds
for passengers: (1) stop disarming them, and (2) stop conditioning them not
to resist. Fifty passengers can easily overwhelm three hijackers, no matter
what they are armed with. When only three have the courage to counterattack,
it makes things harder. If you are an American, then damn it, get off your
ass and fight. Sink your thumbs deep into their eye sockets and don't let
go. You may die, but if you don't fight, you will die anyway. "Mejor morir
a pie
que vivir a rodillas." (Better to die on your feet then live on your knees.)
Corollary: better to die on your feet than to die on your knees.
As to armament, I have carried a carbon fiber or fiberglass knife on
airplanes for many years, and I will continue to do so as long as I can get
away with it. I have no intention of hijacking a plane, but I resolved years
ago that if I were in a hijacking situation, I would not sit in my chair and
wait
for death, I would do everything in my power to kill the
motherfuckingcocksuckingsonofawhore hijacker.
If our government, "for my own safety," comes up with a way to detect my
carbon fiber knife, I will carry a sturdy wood dowel with a sharp point. If
they detect that, I will go back to my Mont Blanc pen, which I carried before
fiberglass/carbon fiber knife technology. If they finally strip and cavity
search all passengers, then I will fight with my bare hands, if that's all
they have left me. If they strip and cavity search all passengers and
handcuff them to their seats, then I swear I will piss on the hijacker's
shoes. I am an American, goddamnit!
On an airplane, train, bus, in a McDonald's or Luby's or in my house, I am an
American. You do what you want; I fight back.