Below is a copy of an e-mail I sent to Bill O'Reilly at Fox News after the LAX incident on July 4, 2002.  For anyone who wasn't aware of what happened on that date, an Egyptian man, who has lived in the U.S. since 1992 and worked legally as a limo driver, walked into the LAX airport and killed two people and wounded three additional people.  More specifically, he went to the ticket counter of Israel's El Al airlines at Los Angeles International Airport and began shooting. 

Dear Bill,

I am writing to you and you only because I think you are the only journalist that has the balls to call it the way he or she sees it.  Media coverage of this LAX incident is PATHETIC……..ON MSNBC, FOX NEWS, CNBC, NBC, ABC, etc…………

I have a motto……TALK IS CHEAP, ACTION SPEAKS

Did the shooter at LAX expect to walk in, shoot people, and then go back to his life as a limo driver?

My answer: Hell NO!  He went in there to kill people.  He didn’t expect to meet the president.  He didn’t expect to get on a plane (metal detectors and the idiots attending them.) 

Was the guy a terrorist?

My answer: I’ll call it the way I see it.  The guy attacked one of the smallest airlines in the United States.  He didn’t attack American Airlines, United, Southwest or Delta (that transport 75%, at least, of our domestic passengers.)  The man, of arab descent, attacked employees that working for a jewish airline. 

I am ABHORRED that no one is calling this man a terrorist.  He went in there to bring some kind of attention to the arab/jewish conflict.  Otherwise, if he was just a psycho he might have shot at American Airlines’ employees or Delta employees. 

Next, lets talk about profiling.

While many people are strongly opposed to it and I am quite apprehensive about it lets look at the realities.

We have another incident of terrorism on U.S. soil from a person of arab descent.

This isn’t an incident of conventional violence.  This man went to the airport, where he knew tons of people would be traveling, and executed people.  More specifically, he executed people of a jewish airline.  Oh yeah, and guess what……..it ties into our economy and terrorisms’ economic impact on Americans.

SECURITY AT AIRPORTS – IT TAKES MORE THAN MONEY

I am amazed that people are talking about spending $10 billion to change LAX and its security.

What will a plane ticket cost after that?  Building costs get priced into tickets!  There is no such thing as a free lunch.  That is capitalism.  At the end of the day higher airfares = less travel.  Less travel and less mobility clearly says “terrorism wins.”  If we ratchet fares up so dramatically terrorism wins………and they know this……..The American way of life will have changed.

It is tough to put a price on a human life………..I am not saying we should or shouldn’t do it……..but a moral issue does arise…….  

One final quote before I leave this subject:

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most destructive to the peace of man since man began to exist. 

Thomas Paine --The Age of Reason