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| German Court Backs Terrorist Tactics |
| 2006-02-20 |
| February 20, 2006: A German court ruled that a hijacked aircraft could not be shot down to prevent it from crashing into a stadium full of people. The court said that the rights of the passengers on the hijacked aircraft took priority over attempts to prevent greater loss of life in the stadium. The ruling came as Germany was organizing security for the soccer world cup. There will be a no-fly zone over the stadiums, but because of this ruling, the fighter jets patrolling the air space will not be allowed to shoot down aircraft threatening the thousands of people in a stadium. The games will be played, in twelve different stadiums, between June 9 and July 9. Germany will try to come up with another way to stop a hijacked aircraft, or seek another legal solution to the prohibition on shooting down attacking aircraft. Do the arithmetic, Fritz |
| Posted by:Elmoling Cromosing3131 |
| #4 PERFECT example of the difference between western values and muslim values. trust me. there'd be no such debate if the shoe was on the other foot. and there'd be no way that shoe ever would change feet. our problem is we apply western values to muslim issues. unfortunately, compassion is seen as weakness. compromise is seen as the first steps to submission. and on and on. so we anguish over shooting down a plane. muslims laugh. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-02-20 20:52 |
| #3 The Few matter more than the Many, as with Socialism. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-02-20 20:12 |
| #2 The Germans better hope Jack Bauer is flying the F-104 when the order comes from the ocurt to stand down. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-20 18:31 |
| #1 This is what happens when you fixate on one aspect of a terrorist action (peoples' lives on the plane) and you refuse to look at the big picture (everyone's lives on the ground). The government refuses to deal with the problem of a hijacked aircraft, so they will let the terrorists solve the problem for them by crashing it into a full stadium of people. This is madness, because: (1) The terrorists achieve all of their goals. (2) The government winds up protecting nobody but the terrorists, and looks like impotent It is a perfect lose-lose solution. TGA, are you out there? Do you have a connection to the top people to get their heads out of their collective a$$es? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-02-20 18:05 |