I wonder if the emergency slides will have been disengaged, if so the
jump from a DC10 door to the ground would most likely lead to
broken bones. In any case don't forget this happened in the US. With
the state of nervousness there, the likely presence of armed air
marshalls
on the aircraft, and almost certainly the presence of armed police on
the ground, opening a door and jumping out could well be the last
action you took.
--==++AJC++==--

And that would be KIDNAPPING. To not allow me to leave unless I'm
under questioning for having committed a crime, or I'm under oath in
court giving crucial testimony, or I'm at work performing a delicate life-
dependent type of occupation, those things excepted--to not allow me to
leave is flat-out KIDNAPPING, I don't care what the law says.
How can we get this changed?

You are hopelessly naive. Try reading the actual text of the Patriot Act.
Your government now has the right to declare anyone - including USA
citizens - as an enemy, and therefore to send them to Cuba or any-
where else it deems necessary. AJC is right. Before the Patriot Act
was passed, you would simply have been arrested and charged with
some minor federal offense. Now you just might be incommunicado
for years.


Casey