Prize-winning Movie Plot threat

Bruce Schneier's announced the winner of his annual "movie-plot threat" contest, the competition to come up with ridiculous security threats of the sort that are used to justify banning photos in public places or liquids on airplanes:

Though recent shooting sprees in churches, nursing homes, and at family outings appear unrelated, a terrifying link has been discovered. All perpetrators had small children who were abducted by terrorists, and perpetrators received a video of their children with hooded terrorists warning that their children would be beheaded if they do not engage in the suicidal rampage. The terror threat level has been raised to red as profiling, known associations, and criminal history are now useless in detecting who will be the next terrorist sniper or airline hijacker. Anyone who loves their children may be a potential terrorist.

Fourth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner

[#1 posted by jaytkay, May 12, 2009 9:19 AM]

Should we tell him the plot was on 24 a few years ago?

[#2 posted by mdh, May 12, 2009 9:26 AM]

Sounds like another day in "where we send our boys to"-istan.

[#3 posted by The Lizardman, May 12, 2009 12:04 PM]

Old concept, first thing that jumped to mind for me was Nick of Time (1995)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113972/plotsummary

mainly because a friend of mine just asked me about it a couple days ago

[#4 posted by Thoaar, May 12, 2009 5:08 PM]

Who are the judges of this contest and how could they be ignorant of this being done before?
Heck, Eagle Eye just came out last year
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/plotsummary
and it obviously wasn't even the first movie with that plot.
What were the runners-up? Soldiers from Iraq or Afghanistan getting captured, brainwashed, inserted into politics? Stoners bringing a self-contained bong onto an airplane to smoke weed undetected in the lavatory?
Sorry to be so snarky, but one would think contest judges would at least have a wider range of movie plot exposure.