Defend Our Lives and Property!
From: RICHARD DIMERY redimery@usa.net
  Date: 15 Nov 2001 13:16:37 MST
  To: COMMENTS@MIDWAYAIR.COM, InvestorRelationsdept@coair.com, 
  United@ual.com, corpcomm@coair.com, 
  custcare@twa.com, custo@coair.com, 
  custrel@austrianair.com, custrel@austrianair.com, 
  investor.relations@aua.com, 
  investor.relations@sas.se, media.relations@aa.com, 
  mediarelations@staralliance.com
  Cc: Liberty Letters <LETTERS@KeepAndBearArms.com
  
  It is now nine weeks since the attack, and the airlines have shown the flying 
  public little that inspires confidence. Given considerable incentive to manage 
  their business to better safeguard people and assets, and shore up consumer 
  confidence, the airlines have failed to do that. 
Business has never prospered by 
  waiting for government innovation or government-imposed solutions. Does airline 
  management really need to be told by bureaucrats that security needs to be improved? 
  While waiting for new regulations, airlines have taken, ostensibly, half measures 
  and indulged in nonproductive rhetoric and the illusion of improved security. 
  Their business, and passengers' satisfaction has declined while they took half-measures, 
  introduced delays, failed to positively control access of uncleared service 
  personnel and freight, and failed to address defense of the aircraft and passengers 
  should all other security measures fail. 
Proactive, commonsense measures 
  that airline management can immediately implement include positive screening 
  of service and contract workers, bomb sniffing dogs, limitations on carryon 
  luggage, allow every pilot trained in the use of firearms the option of carrying 
  a side arm, allow or encourage law enforcement officials to fly armed. Security 
  personnel for banks, sporting events, office and factory buildings and many 
  others are armed - why do airlines opt to NOT protect people and property this 
  way? Survival on an aircraft, more than other situations, may depend on maintaining 
  or reestablishing command most expeditiously. Any airline policy that requires 
  the crew to be unarmed or UNDER armed is counterproductive to the avowed management 
  goals of preserving lives and airline property.
It is time for airline management 
  to implement measures that work. Then, instead of waiting for government to 
  act, DEMAND that FAA regs be made to accommodate commonsense business decisions 
  and our Constitutional rights to (defend) our lives and property! 
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