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[Jeff]

[Avalon]

Maybe someone's Photoshop program was on the fritz, so they decided to do a live version instead. You think the WTF? moments can never be topped, yet they constantly do.

I wonder if we'll ever find out where the "Air Force photographers" were.

I don't know how easy it might be to have a gun in one's office might be, but having a crossbow made out of components that individually would be acceptable in an office might not be a bad idea.

[StarmanSkye]

"I don't know how easy it might be to have a gun in one's office might be, but having a crossbow made out of components that individually would be acceptable in an office might not be a bad idea."

WoW -- It just occurred to me -- What IF some well-meaning policemen, after conferring with their dept. supervisor who admits he/she isn't aware of any authorized maneuvers re: a low-flying large commercial airliner flying in low, dangerous circles as if in immanent dive-bomb threat to the city, decide to break-out their M-16 assault rifles with depleted-uranium-tipped ammo and try to heroicly 'defend' their city from a crazed suicide-hijacker.

Would they be 'justified' in repelling an apparant suicide-attack, given the very real tragedy of 911 with its own near-identical 'impossible!' disaster still a potent memory of absolute terror?

And what's with the Mayor denouncing the stunt when the FAA official specificaly said one of the authorities this was coordinated with was the Mayor's office?

Why wouldn't a photo-op simply be done with a small plane or helicopter, instead of a $5000 per hour commercial airliner and 2 Air Force jets @ another coupla thou $ per hour?

It makes no sense;

But then, that's par today, ain't it?

[MacCruiskeen]

[hanshan]

[quote="MacCruiskeen"][quote="whipstitch"]WTF????

White House: No info on Air Force 1 photo-op
26 minutes ago

MacCruiskeen wrote:

[MacCruiskeen]

[MacCruiskeen]

From the BBC article:

[82_28]

Footage of people actually panicking.

http://www.city.com/forums/air-force-ne-flying-low-over-nyc-panicking-locals_topic260.html

[hanshan]

[MacCruiskeen]

There is no way they can not have known exactly what they were doing, and exactly what the effect would be, when they did this.

So why would they do it? (That's rhetorical.)
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[DrVolin]

Strategy of tension.

[StarmanSkye]

I can't buy this for one-second -- NObody can be that stooopid:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_low_flying_plane_purpose
--quote--
Source: White House was updating AF One file photo
AP – In this image taken with a cell phone by Jason McLane, the primary presidential aircraft, a Boeing 747 … By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 48 mins ago
WASHINGTON – An administration official says a presidential Boeing 747 and a fighter jet flew low near ground zero in New York City Monday because the White House Military Office wanted to update its file photo of the president's plane near the Statue of Liberty.

This official said the White House Military Office told the Federal Aviation Administration that it periodically updates file photos of Air Force One near national landmarks, like the statute in New York harbor and the Grand Canyon.

The official requested anonymity to give more details than the official White House announcement that took the blame.

The incident on Monday caused a brief panic among workers, who weren't warned. They recalled the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
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I'd sooner believe this, reposted from Huffingtonpost @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/manhattan-low-flying-plan_n_191835.html
c/o:Ambientdiscord:
--quote--
Pentagon:

"We need a picture of a passenger jet flying over new york."

"I can make you one in 5 minutes with Photoshop."

"no we can't use proprietary software for government work."

"OK well i can download the Linux version for free."

"I have an idea, take this note to the treasury. We need to allocate $1M to do a study on the best way to do a $10M military exorcise where we fly a passenger jet between the skyscrapers in NY city."

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MIGHT this be a covert Mil-Intel psyop to discredit and smear Obama, either as a PR operation or to send a political 'message' to Obama et al., 'don't BUCK us, boy; Go along or we'll smoke you ...'

But I tend to think, the US public were the intended guinea pig suckers for this stunt.

[hanshan]

[justdrew]

I'm surprised we haven't heard that the photo-op is just a cover-story, really it was spraying some kinda anti-swine-flu-spray (whatever that could possibly be) in New York, and to be effectively distributed, given wind patterns, etc... the spray had to be released along the flight path. Other than photo-op what other cover story could there be for a plane flying there then? Not just any plane would do, it HAD to look like a presidential transport plane to justify the cover-story. What else could it be a cover story for? Could some pilot have actually freaked way the hell out?

Either that or some folks responsible have remarkably poor judgment or were intentionally willfully spooking the hell out of people. but to what end? What are the implications of "air force one" "(looked like) it was going to fly right into wall street" Is it some kind of "Obama threatens to destroy wall street" message? Doesn't seem like it plays to his favor.

Air Farce One

[Avalon]

If the President wants to see the Statue of Liberty up close and personal from above, I'm sure he can do so by helicopter. If Air Force One can be recognized in the same frame as the Statue of Liberty, it is too damned close.