Posted by
Roxanna M. on Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:01:49 PM
By now, you've all heard about the fly-over over New York City. Somebody, somewhere thought the new administration needed some new publicity shots of Air Force One. What the residents of NYC saw was a big plane, flying about 1,500 feet, being chased by at least one fighter jet. Panic ensued. People by the thousands streamed out of skyscrapers. Some buildings were ordered evacuated. People stood on the street looking skyward.
We'd all like to think that it was just some idiot who ordered the flight to be kept confidential. The e-mail sent to NYC's City Hall said that the information was "only to be shared with persons with a need to know" and "shall not be released to the public". Yea, right. The public was never going to find out about it. In an FAA memo, the feds knew that the fly-over was going to cause panic, but they still ordered it be kept hush-hush, under threat of federal sanctions.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg said that he wasn't told, but chastised his office for its role in keeping quiet. The aide who knew has had a "disciplinary letter" placed in his file. An aide knew, but not the Mayor? NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly promised to never obey such a directive again.
Louis Caldera from the White House Military Office took the blame, becoming the second sacrificial lamb of the BO administration. The first being, of course, the new CEO of Fannie Mae who "committed suicide" a week or so ago.
This was no mistake. nor was BO ignorant of it. It was a cold and calculated move by a man committed to lowering our defenses to see how the public would react to a possible terrorist attack.
It proves once and for all, to those with a 9/10 mentality or those who believe that if we're nice to them, they'll be nice to us, that this is still very much a 9/11 America that is not ready to see everything that President Bush did to keep us safe just thrown away.
By the way, those in power should get it through their heads that there's a lot of us out here who don't care what is done to terrorists. We don't think that making terrorists listen to loud music is bad. We cheer the fact that waterboarding the 9/11 mastermind prevented another attack. We don't suffer from any kind of guilt. And, regardless of what the elites tell us, we know that we will always be better than those who would destroy us.