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Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC
pdclarry writes "A Boeing 747 that serves as an Air Force One backup and two F-16 fighters escorting it caused a brief panic among office workers at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan this morning, as large numbers evacuated the buildings. The incident was also spurred evacuations in Jersey City across the Hudson River from Manhattan."
Are you from the city? Were you here for the attacks? No I bet you weren't. I'll even go as far as to say that the biggest impact the 9/11 attacks had on you didn't get to watch Days of Our Lives because the news was on that day. Planes don't fly low around the city normally, they certainly aren't escorted by F-16s. To look into the sky in NYC and see not just a plane but a low flying 747 and not just a 747 but a 747 being trailed by a F-16 around the city would scare the crap out of anybody who was here for the attacks and rightly so. Maybe next time you should think of what it would be like to watch seven of your friends die as a building collapsed around them. Then maybe you wouldn't be so quick to act like you wouldn't have done the same thing when placed in the same situation. Fucking tool.
This IRREFUSEABLY PROOFS that HUSSAIN OBAMA is working with the TERRERIST to FORCE CONVERT AMERICA TO MUSLIM!!
Well, I feel for those who live near La Guardia or JFK...
You just got troll'd!
You base your expert threat assessment on what, exactly? Darwin had a theory about you...
Terrorists are not trolls. Their purpose is not to scare us. It is to stop us from encroaching into their culture. They have not won if they just made us fearful. They only win when we stop building McDonald's there and their youths stop wearing jeans.
Not so, my friend. They don't win if they scare us ... they win when we're all either dead or converted to Islam (preferably dead, I think.) I suppose that qualifies as stopping us from encroaching on their culture. So far as our influence goes, they just have to say "no". If their people and government institutions are not capable of saying "no", then the problem is theirs, and theirs alone. It's not like we're forcing them to sell us land for fast food restaurants at gunpoint, you know. Nor are we forcing them to patronize said establishments. They go there of their own free will because their people like it. The leaders may not, but again that's their problem. If you wish to trade on the global scene then you're just going to have to accept some external influences ... if you can't, build a wall around yourselves and stop flying aircraft into our buildings.
... and is certainly not our responsibility.
This idea that cultures should never come together and learn from each other, that different societies should remain "pure" and unadulterated is the same sort of psychotic babble spewn forth by the Nazis. It also belies the fact that most of the greatest advances in civilization have been made because societies didn't keep themselves apart. The U.S. didn't prevent people that immigrated here from bringing their culture along with them: the key was getting along in spite those differences, and improving the quality of life for everyone. The fact that the Muslim world has proven incapable of a similar civilized outlook is their loss
Furthermore, the fact that they don't like our culture, our value system, our clothing or our food is no justification for mass murder.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.