Yesterday dawned gorgeously sunny over New York City and the region, just like that fatal morning of 9/11, when two terrorist-controlled planes swooped low over the landscape and slammed into the World Trade Towers.
You’d think that no one would be stupid or insensitive enough to roughly replicate the flight pattern of the determined Jihadist extremists ever again. But we’d both be wrong to think that. Not only did it occur, but it happened when the President’s Air Force One (minus Barack Obama), flew low near the Statue of Liberty, followed by what people thought was a chase plane, a U.S. fighter jet.
It was just a photo-op, government operatives later told us. Too late. People in Manhattan, poured out of buildings nearly scared to death, thinking that it was happening all over again.
Upon learning of this idiotic event, the President, we are told, was “furious.” But not enough apparently, to fire the person responsible, Louis Caldera, head man of the White House Military Office who acknowledged responsibility for staging the flyover.
Another bureaucratic bonehead associated with this Beltway faux pas is Marc Mugnos, a city hall staffer who failed to alert New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg who was livid when he found out. Pinhead James J. Johnston of the FAA is the person who sent an email directing that the “flying photo-op . . . shall not be released to the public.”
Enough! It’s characteristic of the mindset of people who blindly do what they are told: “Just following orders.”
Sources: The Wall Street Journal and The Star-Ledger stories.
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