This is pretty funny stuff. Uh, yes, we have secure cockpit doors. Yes we do.

Want a solution to hijacking?

1. Focus on stopping threats from getting on the planes. And by "threats" I don't mean inanimate objects, I mean "people who want to terrorize and kill other people." If this means "racial profiling" (gee, I don't know why most terrorists are Muslim male extremists), so be it.

2. Forget arming the pilots, hardening the flight deck doors, etc. No terrorist should be able to get into the flight deck, period. What I am saying here is, the pilots enter the flight deck from a separate door. This means no access to the controls from main cabin, which in turn means piddle-packs for the flight crew.

3. Start a volunteer plainclothes air police program. Ultimately this would mean selecting willing civilian volunteers, doing a *thorough* background check on them, giving them some specialized training, then authorizing them to carry concealed weapons on board the plane. Initially this would be very difficult to implement, so a compromise solution would be to select top police officers, give them the training, then allow (or require, with additional incentive pay) them to carry concealed weapons off duty when traveling.

Of course, these suggestions are heresy in today's PC environment where we worry more about terrorists' and murderers' feelings than their innocent victims. But it would be a good start.

That is all for now.