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January 15th, 2004
Everything is dangerous.
Commercial pilot Fred Bates could not board the twin-engine jet he was about to fly from Dallas to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, until he passed through a metal detector. Airport screeners had to make sure he was not carrying a pen knife, box cutter or scissors.
Yet once aboard, he saw that an elderly passenger was holding a cane -- a potentially lethal weapon.
From knitting needles to ball point pens, passengers still are allowed to bring on all kinds of potential weapons, Bates said.
Hell, I'm surprised they let Wesley Clark fly on planes. The man is a trained killer, for God's sake, a weapon unto himself! Then again, as a Rhodes Scholar, he probably doesn't need planes. He can use the immense power of his brain to break free of all those so-called laws of nature that have us lesser beings so trapped.