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
