Again. They Left Out "Again."

The take-away line from this Yahoo! News article is:

"Aggressive intervention has become the new societal norm," -Bill Voss, Flight Safety Foundation, Alexandria, VA

Bill, you've almost got it. You forgot to say "again." You should have said:

"Aggressive intervention has become the new societal norm again."

In 1940, if someone were obviously trying to kill 300 people, they would have had the [deleted] kicked out of them, no questions asked. The police would have taken the miscreant into custody, charged and jailed him appropirately, and the matter would be officially closed.

In 2001, several hundred people set the example of what too much lawyering could do: they sat docile while their planes were flown into buildings by faithful Muslims. A few more, on the same day, showed what ought to be done, everywhere, when Evil threatens force: meet it with superior force from Good. That the Good and the Sheep all died, is not part of the story.

So this MUSLIM man whose father's warning to the US Dept. of State was insufficient to cancel his visa or even put him on the no-fly list, tried to blow up Northweat flight 253 this weekend. A passenger saw a fire, jumped up and put out the fire. The dude was subdued, stripped to ensure there were no more weapons on him, and held for the Police. This was the proper course of action. Everyone involved should get free flights to anywhere, from the airline, for life.

I did mention there were too many (bad) lawyers in the USA, right? Yeah, don't be surprised to see the unassuming heroes in this incident to be brought up on assault and wrongful imprisonment charges. If the DA is a real sleaze, they'll probably come up with some racial profiling or religious discrimination nonsense, as well.

Regardless of what the press and the lawyers say after the fact, secure in their Monday Morning Quarterback chairs, I say "Congratulations" to Jasper Schuringa, the flying Dutchman who first acted to save his own [deleted] on flight 253.