When 911 occurred I wondered why our National Security system did not react or maybe it just didn’t see that 3 passenger planes took off from airports and then changed their flight plan and the direction they were flying in, mid air. Evidently our Strategic Air Command (SAC) did not notice or were not notified.
Now, I thought SAC was supposed to be on constant alert 24/7, capable of seeing any aircraft or missiles aimed at or flying near or over our shores into American air space, but evidently on 911, they didn’t see anything and didn’t react until after the fact.
Under the circumstances, looking back at their mistakes, especially those of the air traffic controllers in Chicago (which has the East Coast area and the mid-west air space to oversee) would be more alert today, than ever, when looking for anything out of the ordinary, like some plane flying over the USA without a flight plan, and possibly being in the way of other occupied flight routes.
We have all heard the saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” well I would like to know how Colton Harris-Moore, the “Barefoot Bandit” stole a private plane in Indiana, and flew it from near our Northern border to our over and past our Sourthern border in American air space, without the plane showing up on radar and without the knowledge of air traffic control.
Why didn’t SAC send out Air Force jets to escort this plane down to the ground? Instead it flew unnoticed by a kid (19 years old) who was never trained to fly, nor knew any laws regarding flying a plane in US air space, all the way to the Bahamas basically unnoticed by any air traffic control towers.
What if some terrorists (and they already have, you can be sure of that) came into the US over the unsecured border in the South, like for instance, into Arizona, and then continued on to some small airport that they had already staked out, stole a plane and used it as a missile and flew it into some building, or sprayed some chemical over populated areas, or just flew it into a passenger plane already in the air?
I find that this is an extremely serious national security matter, which evidently has not been addressed, and no one is talking about it. Our national security was breached when this kid flew a plane a great distance over American territory, and no one noticed.
Just how safe is US air space? You would think after 911, no one would be able to enter our air space without being identified or shot down, yet a 19 year old kid on a cross country spree of robberies, break-ins, and just plain pranks stole a plane not once but numerous times and no one noticed while he was air bound. This kid could have been a terrorist, foreign or domestic, it doesn’t matter, he still flew over US air space without being noticed by authorities. Who in the is running this show?
With our Southern borders being crossed everyday by illegals, many of unknown origin, I find it disgraceful that our Congress, our Homeland Security Director, the DOJ and our President feel that our Southern border is as “secure as ever”. They evidently have the same opinion of Air Traffic Control towers, and the Strategic Air Command Center.
Yesterday, Colton Harris-Moore, the “Barefoot Bandit” was caught, after a boat chase, in the Bahamas. He has been on the run for nearly two years and has quite a following on You Tube and Face Book. It appears that You Tube and Face book fans followed this kid on his mischievous quest, more than the FBI did.
With all our scientific advancements in the United States, it took police in a country definitely not as advanced as ours to catch Colton Harris-Moore, the “Barefoot Bandit.”
If you want to go a step further, think about who finally caught Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch prime suspect in the murder of a young American teen in Aruba. The FBI was hot on his trail, but not only allowed him to escape from the US, but also financed his escape before he ended up killing yet another young woman in Peru and escaped to Chili where he was finally apprehended. I would consider Chili a third world country. I may be politically incorrect, according to some politician, but my opinion stays the same.
Maybe it’s time that President Obama starts appointing people with leadership abilities, and who actually know something about the job that they are being appointed to, when he selects someone to head an agency like the FBI, the CIA and especially the Attorney General’s position and the Homeland Security Director’s position.
Just this past week NASA Chief, Charles Bolden was given a new assignment by none other than President Obama. Bolden told the news media that “Obama wanted me to make Muslims feel good”. Bolden continued, “ he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.” Are you kidding me?
To make matters even worse Bolden has gone on TV Al Jazeera, Bin Laden’s favorite media source, to spread the President’s warm and heart-felt message to the Muslim world. So, maybe this is the “Change” we were promised, only didn’t know it at the time.
I think it’s time for Obama to “Reach out and make Americans feel good about themselves, including not apologizing for us to the world”. Now, that would be “Change.” ss
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