Reply #57: As I've said before again and again [View All]

If the rules "pre-9/11" had actually been ENFORCED on the days leading up to 9/11/01, the actors would not have been able to execute against the plan.

"Pre-9/11" rules were NOT the problem on 9/11/01.

The best thing that could be done would be (1) to perform a gap analysis on the rules that were breached up to and on 9/11/01; (2) to put measures in place to insure maximum compliance with each and all of the "pre-9/11" rules.

Of course that would be punitive upon the airlines, their contractors and assigns ,all law enforcement personnel from local to Federal levels, and all government agencies, local, state and Federal.

By 9/21/01, the gov't fund to compensate victims' families was passed, removing the ability of the survivors to sue airlines, their contractors and assigns, and all law enforcement personnel. The only persons a survivor could sue were the alleged perpetrators. Like suing OBL and Atta was going to serve any purpose whatsover.

So I'm all for enforcing the laws that were supposed to protect us on 9/11/01. Somehow we could get a NORAD fighter to figure out tout suite what happened with a millionaire golfer's private jet carrying 6 people over flyover country, but four commercial airliners (jumbo jets at that) gone AWOL somehow, in/near major East Coast metropolitan areas, didn't warrant the same degree of action and urgency.

Damn the Pukes... they break stuff, and never have to clean it up or fix it. Then they get to scream that whatever it is they broke "doesn't work", therefore it needs to be replaced. And somehow, when it gets replaced, cronies (e.g., Skeletor Chertoff) make a pile of dough and the American people pay the bill. We pay financially and we pay with our broken rights.