Jophiel wrote:
decayed wrote:
Is 9/11 really being used by dems (in general) as a reason to support high speed rails?
No, terrorism is being used by Gbaji as a reason NOT to support high speed rail. He's equating train security to airline security which is flawed on multiple levels, only one of which is that you can't take down buildings with a hijacked train.
Holy F-ing hell you guys are obtuse!
The shoebomber was not trying to hijack a plane and use it as a weapon. Neither was the underwear bomber. It's amazing that I made this exact same point in my last post, but instead you zeroed in on the whole "trains can jump their tracks and smash into things" side comment. Talk about blinders!
The point I was making was that Biden talked about one of the advantages of rail being that it doesn't take so long to board, he
specifically mentioned not having to take off your shoes. He was directly referencing that type of security measures we have on planes, but those security measures have
nothing to do with flying planes into buildings. Please tell me you guys aren't this slow.
If sufficient numbers of Americans traveled by rail, then that would be the primary target for terrorism. Do I have to spell this out for you with crayon? Using planes as weapons themselves was a nice one time bonus for the 9/11 attackers. But their objective is terror. They'll use trains as a convenient means of bottling a bunch of people into a small space to randomly kill them just as happily as planes. Arguing that terrorists wont do this because they haven't yet is the same kind of mistake as that made in the years leading up to 9/11.