You know. I am starting to have doubts about this administration.

After four months, I am not seeing the flowers, rainbows and unicorns abounding over the countryside like a scene from Bambi . I do not see lions lying down with lambs or jihahists th…

The mission? To test anti-missile defenses on commercial jets in case someone else gets the same idea as that NYC terror cell the feds just busted.

In other words, they purposely did it in a very public way in order to make people believe that the Obama Administration is “tough on terror!” and taking these threats seriously. In other words, in my opinion, it was all for show.

ProudPalinFan on May 22, 2009

Hey! I went to school in Edinboro and love Erie. Presque Isle is great but the sand on the beach is sort of like fake sand. tiny pebbles. The mall is not so great,, but other parts of Erie are nice. Democrat stronghold, though.

Aren’t they suppose to test these things at a secluded area or air force bases?

This is beyond words. I agree,,, they could do the freaking tests in a secluded region. Just like they test every other kind of defensive measure.
What are they going to do next? Bring tanks rolling into main street, fire a few rounds over our heads and then we’ll watch videos of people fleeing in panic and the MSN coming on saying “There was no need to fear, the DHS was just training to destroy our cities in the event of an emergency.”
This is just plain incompetence. You don’t go freaking circling an airliner around a freaking major city in the US and think no one should be alarmed!! Either that,, or they just do not give a rip if they cause a panic,, or still, someone somewhere is enjoying the thrill.

It was obvious the area the plane was flying is not part of the normal flight paths of aircraft. Therefore, the only logical conclusion is that the DHS was testing its ability to shoot down a hijacked flight that was going to pull off a 9/11 type of attack.

It would be interesting to understand that the DHS would shoot down an airplane, killing all on board, and not to mention those on the ground that the wreckage would fall on unsuspecting citizens. Is the DHS admitting that they failed in preventing the bad guys from getting on an aircraft.

They are going to ‘What IF’ themselves into creating a bigger mistake than 9/11, coddling the enemy.

Let’s just identify them and eradicate them. If the enemy does not follow or fight by the rule of law then we do not owe them a trial, that usually results in U.S. taking care of them for the rest of their natural lives in prison, allowing them to become lawyers or teachers of fundamental Jihad to other prisoners that will get out and carry out attacks on U.S..

Thanks. I’ll take one next month, probably. Nowhere to go, though.

Allahpundit on May 22, 2009 at 5:32 PM

Asia, my friend. Asia.

This smells like we’re being prepped.

44Magnum on May 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM

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Two within two weeks.

This city is very family-oriented, entertainment for young and adults alike. Tons of hotels, we got the Splash Lagoon indoor water park plus Waldameer. And if you wanna see Steelers for their practice, we can take you there; we went last year it was a blast!

On the DHL airplane, why didn’t they borrow a FedEx DC-10, since that’s where the main hub is? Perhaps people would have just kept on going b/c it would have gone unnoticed. Wonder if they still jumpseat; last I know after Sept. 11, the jumpseat perk was eliminated. Too bad for the employees; flying for free IS great, even though it’s an overnighter.

Woody

? And with all the bazillions of miles of desert we have, this has to be done right next to densely populated urban areas?

seriously. Why the need to horrify so many people? There is tons of nothing in this country.

Luckily we’ll be closing Guantanamo next year, so that should take care of most jihadists’ anti-American sentiment.

Good one Allah.

The entire administration seems to be suffering from Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

Did you get a hold of that DHS spokesman……….?

……… The best and the brightest looking after our National Security.

Seven Percent Solution on May 22, 2009 at 6:18 PM

Yeah, his face was definitely missing something…that spark which indicates that a person is playing with all the cards.

Joe Biden must have been in charge today.

Upstater85 on May 22, 2009 at 7:39 PM

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No. Biden my be dumber than a box of rocks, but this has a vindictiveness more in tune with Obama-nation

Why the heck don’t they test these things out in the middle of no place? Well I mean at least Detroit, only 20 people left there.

Canon on May 22, 2009 at 5:50 PM

one word why not Detroit.
“planejacking”