Reply #78: Your argument is the same that they use in the Voting Machine [View All]

[petgoat]

forum: "Shhhh! Don't talk about the Black Box machines! That argument makes us
look flakey."

1) because they never caught up with the planes someone must have helped him

Sure. Just tip them off when the war games would disrupt the air defense (and the Pentagon
missile batteries would be turned off) and that's all they needed.

2) the system was set up for this

Intercepting off course aircraft is a routine matter. 100 times a year.

3) they were authorized to shoot airliners down without authorization

Who said shoot down? The rules call for interception. The aircraft were not intercepted.

4) a system which was set up to keep other countries out was set up to down our own airliners

It is NORAD's job to intercept off-course aircraft-for instance, around the White House. After the
collapse of the USSR, the military was trying to invent an expanded peactime role. Domestic protection was suggested.

5) They didn't down the airliners so there wasn't any air defense. I suggest a cuban fighter wouldn't have had the same luck.

"Down" and "fighter" are both faulty framing. "Intercept" and "multiple Jamaican airliners" are
reasonable.

Al Qaeda's Project Bojinka plot anticipated flying hijacked aircraft into Sears Tower, WTC, and the
Pentagon. The FBI knew all about it. You think the military never thought of it?