Anyone on an airplane is a suspect these days

This is what one of the passengers on the Miami flight had to say to Time magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1138965,00.html

"I was on the phone with my brother. Somebody came down the aisle and put a shotgun to the back of my head and said put your hands on the seat in front of you. I got my cell phone karate chopped out of my hand. Then I realized it was an official."

In the ensuing events, many of the passengers began crying in fear, he recalls. "They were pointing the guns directly at us instead of pointing them to the ground," he says. "One little girl was crying. There was a lady crying all the way to the hotel."

McAlhany said he saw Alpizar before the flight and is absolutely stunned by what unfolded on the airplane. He says he saw Alpizar eating a sandwich in the boarding area before getting on the plane. He looked normal at that time, McAlhany says. He thinks the whole thing was a mistake: "I don't believe he should be dead right now."

So it seems anyone on a plane is suspect in Bush's Amerika. And I think my days of loving to fly are over.

they gunned down an innocent man and terrorized the rest of the passengers.

When I fly I feel like I am being treated like a criminal -- and we are all guilty until we exit the airport.

While at the airport and on the airplanes we are all expected to be passive, keep our eyes down and respond to anyone who claims to be an "authority". Just like prison inmates.

And we PAY to be treated like dirt by the Feds and airlines.

Some masochists will say that they feel "safer" being treated like inmates in a prison just because they are paying to fly.