You're missing the point, it's not about air travel. Once they are done playing with airplanes, someone will blow up an american commuter train or a bridge someplace and this nonsense will start all over again.

So we should just let them blow us up?

Planes are the big target, these guys are foreigners who couldn't find Grand Central Station on a bet.

Right, hope that works out for you.

I've spoken with more than a few people who now REFUSE to board an aircraft for multiple reasons. the two main reasons? security and safety. they simply do not feel "secure" nor "safe" anymore. no matter how many dogs, multiple X-ray machines (check the carcinogen levels for X-ray dosages, YIKES!), body cavity searches, etc. there are many people who have been scared off from flying. multiple airline bankruptcies only tell part of the story.

time to bring in the German high speed mag lev trains. 300 MPH comfort, starbucks coffee served up along with your favorite reading materials. no idiot drivers on the road, no high priced gasoline, plus reduce the maintenance cost on your cars, simply leave the driving to the train operator. Europe, Japan and now China are doing it, the United States, of course, will be the last to get a descent high speed rail system.

How will you go about guarding the thousands of miles of rail systems that such trains run on from the sabotage that could easily cause a catastrophic wreck at 300 MPH? What would stop an attacker from driving a cement mixer into the path of a train traveling 300MPH?

I’m a big fan of train travel but from a security point of view it’s a disaster waiting to happen.

They don't have to waste their time coming up with new "threats" as you so obtusely call it. Because we as a nation are too stupid to do anything meaningful about the existing one which has the best "cost bennefit ratio" for the whackjobs by far.

- Peter.

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I'm not worried about some silly threats, I just don't want the hassle and crappy service associated with flying. Even with the occasional terrorist, flying is still safer than driving.

I'm all for high speed trains, as well as better freight train service (to get some trucks off the roads). However, trains are probably equally susceptible to these types of threats.

So what is the option then? Running scared, never go outside the house?
I say F..K them, terrorist or freedom fighters... whatever they call themselves they will not make me live my life in fear. Period!!!! I will travel, I will enjoy everyday of my life. If they want to die for a pot of honey and few virgins, well lets be it. I am not giving up on my freedom.

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I never said ignore non-Arab looking folks. I said ignore WHITES. For the very simple reason that the enemy is not "the terrorists". It's islamists. And up till now they have been exclusively non-white. Now one day maybe some honkey nutjob might decide to convert to islam and attack the infidel like that idiot Lindh did, and that may well happen one day, but until then you are dealing exclusively with the bacillus of islam confined largely to non white populaces and which typically comes with identifiable names. For people claiming to deal with airline security to pretend that this is not significant is imbecillic and a product of the swamp of PCBS that infests western civilization to it's severe detriment.

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As I said I rarely fly now, they can improve their security theater all they want without affecting me. If that makes joe six-pack feel better about flying, it might have some economic use.

Exactly, but most americans are afraid of their own shadows and expect the government to eliminate all risk from their lives. That seems to be the basis of much of the tough talk from both politicians and the bubbas that vote for them.

Better hope they don't take you with them next time they decide to go **** a virgin.

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NO Peter I don't hope, I'm enjoying life every single second.
What I wish is that if I am on that plane with this MotherF.... I WISH that I will have at least a few seconds before the bomb set off so I can punch the $hit out of him. It will give me a peace knowing that I got HIM/HER first.

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Like I said earlier, the terrorists have already won.

We are searched at airports, treated like crap at US border crossings, and within 100 miles of the border can be searched without warrants! All in the name of stopping drugs or terrorists http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-85472575.html

It's sad. I don't live my life in fear. If I die I die. Life is just cruel and unexpected like that. We can prevent as much as we can, but anyone who is truly determined to do drastic amounts of harm will be able to do so.

I am truly saddened by what I see in this country.

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As far as a high speed train running into anythng....

High speed trains have NO grade crossings. They either go over or under grade crossings so they never have any reason to slow down. This is one reason they cost to much to build.

Security of the right-of-way is something that can be accomplished. Pipelines and refineries have very good security, and some pipeline companies have even considered leasing their right-of-way to rail lines so the high speed trains could be a source of revenue to them.

One big deterant to high speed rail, as odd as this may sound, are the land owners whose property the line would cross. These trains scare the life out of cattle and make plowing a field rather difficult.

But the biggest deteriant is the airline industry. There was a line like this proposed to run between Dallas and Houston about 20 years ago and the airlines fought it tooth and nail. I guess it never occoured to the airlines that they should invest in the rail line for if they had it would be a big source of revenue to them now. (That is, if it could be done at a profit.)