Missiles deployed for inauguration

[genieroze]

Missiles deployed for inauguration


By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The military has deployed anti-aircraft missiles within range of the Capitol as part of security enhancements for tomorrow's presidential inauguration.
The missile deployment comes even though the FBI and Homeland Security Department concluded in a recent threat assessment that there is no credible information showing that terrorists have targeted inaugural events.
Army Avenger missile systems, a Humvee-mounted version of the Stinger anti-aircraft missile, were deployed in the weekend at several locations in the Washington area, including the northern tip of Bolling Air Force Base in Southeast.
"It is a NORAD deployment," said Army Maj. Maria Quon, a spokeswoman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the joint U.S.-Canadian defense system developed during the Cold War.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050118-105234-1449r.htm

[Az_lefty]

1. Deploying missiles for the coronation

starting to sound like Red Square.....:scared:

[genieroze]

2. Police State here we come. lol

[saskatoon]

22. Police State?

I copied and Pasted this but it didn't come out good and I can't move some words.
Now What America?

An uneasy feeling across our land
Something rotten in this place
There’s a stink asettin’ in
Just sniff the wind that hits your face
Something’s gnawing the foundation
An ominous tapping at the door
I fear I recognize the face---
Orwell’s nineteen eight four?

Chorus The Kyoto protocol Bushwacked
Oil greases the Bush’s war machine
And his oil connected cabinet!
The damndest list you’ve ever seen!
Lotta oil in the Middle East
Bomb that towel headed bunch!
Gobble, gobble what a feast!

America the beautiful
Your first preemptive
War
We used napalm on Safwan Hill*
There were bodies everywhere
We’d better get our act together
Men of honor stand up tall
A house with a bad foundation
Is weakened and will fall

Our waters are polluted
Clean Air Act is down the drain
Holes in the ozone layer
When will Kenny Boy’s prison time begin?
Think back, connect the dots
To a powerful cabal
Secret meetings behind closed doors
Freedom’s bastion ‘bout to fall
chorus
© Copyright Aug.11, 2003 by G. M. Stevenson
[e-mail] * Iraq

Have a dozen similar ones, will send if you want

[Delphinus]

14. Jeez,

you got that right!! Why can't the people in this country see the correlation?

[paineinthearse]

3. Pilots, check your transponders

What is the failsafe that will insure a commercial or private plane with a failed transponder is not mistaken for a terrorist aircraft and shot down? I remember this almost happening with some southern governor a few months back.

[paineinthearse]

21. I feel so secure......

Now that Bomber Harris is back in charge.

[NYC]

4. Is this costing Canada money?

"It is a NORAD deployment," said Army Maj. Maria Quon, a spokeswoman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the joint U.S.-Canadian defense system developed during the Cold War.

I'd really like to know if this paranoia is costing Canada money, especially since they said:

The missile deployment comes even though the FBI and Homeland Security Department concluded in a recent threat assessment that there is no credible information showing that terrorists have targeted inaugural events.

[arikara]

5. The chimp's coronation had better not be costing us money

I'm going to write to my MP and find out.

[NYC]

6. Please, please, let me know what you find out.

Send me a DU mail, if necessary. I would really like to know, and I don't expect to read it in The New York Times.

[zann725]

24. Maybe that's why the false terror alarm in Boston today?

To justify use of NORAD.

[drdtroit]

7. Hurry, hurry, hurry ladies and gentlemen,

come and witness the "Greatest Show On Earth".

[CoffeeCat]

8. Fear Mongering at its worst...

The White House is constantly stoking the fires of fear.

Every time there's a political event--they bring out the big guns--to constantly remind us that we need to stew in a helpless stupor of terror.

Yes, BushCo--we understand that we're under siege and that we should remain trauma bonded to you. And of course, you guys are the only ones who can save us from the big, bad monsters.

It's the stuff of abusers, ladies and gentlemen. Abusive tactics--designed to scare us and then create an unhealthy, fear-based dependence between the White House and it citizens.

[jokerman93]

29. wow

You nailed it, didn't you. And the tone you take is precisely appropriate. Thanks.

[NVMojo]

38. reminds me of those scenes from Farenheit 9-11 ...America, the scared

shitless and submissive.

[porkrind]

47. great post.

"stew in a helpless stupor of terror". Well put.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Better not release any mylar helium balloons accidentally... n/t

[havocmom]

10. ya know, untreated nerve damage causes me to lose grip on things

Lost hold of a balloon just the other day. Hope that stops, but what with no medical care and all, it just keeps happening.

[soup]

13. Practice. Practice. Practice.

*sigh* It's all I can offer in the way of advice.

Don't forget to wear your gloves if it's cold outside, though.

[jobycom]

11. The Soviets, Nazis, Romans and Spartans

never missed a chance to show off their weapons to their people, either.

We crossed our Rubicon on December 12th, 2000. We are now an Empire, and don't forget it.

[DBoon]

12. So are we now ruled by Nero or by Caligula?

eom

[DemonFighterLives]

15. I'm feeling much safer now

With dubby and the gang and weapons all over the place. They just invite disaster wherever they go.

[mediaman007]

16. Aren't they always deployed?

Am I to expect a Russian May Day parade? Will the troops be goose stepping in front of the pResident? Will there be fleets of tanks, and Bradley's and missiles.

We have so much of that stuff its redundant. If I were running a country and I wanted to defeat the U.S., I would do just what Iraq has done...overextend our military with distance and let them attack, then just wage a guerrilla war and let time be my ally.

[MasonJar]

17. They don't work! Maybe they will go slightly off course.

[gauguin57]

18. Anyone watching this CHEESY "Celebration of Freedom"

on cable networks now. Pre-inaugural crap.

Ewwww. Gatlin Brothers ... please deploy the missles now. Sorry, but EWWWW!

[genieroze]

19. I wonder if they will aim the missiles at the protesters? eom

[SillyGoose]

20. Missiles deployed for inauguration (coronation)?

Good Lord - this is getting ridiculous.

:eyes:

[sweetheart]

23. Titan II's, Tridents and saturn 5's

I feel safer already to know that all the nuclear armaments are there
threatening to cover wasthington in huge nuclear airbursts. Thank
god for WMD's and their delivery vehicles.

[NCN007]

35. Are you kidding?

Read the article. There are no nukes being deployed to washington. Do a little research before you post. All the missles are anti-aircraft.

[sweetheart]

40. Of course i'm kidding AND i'm dead serious

I read the headline, and it conjured images of washington surrounded
by a giant stock of ballistic missiles.... huge ones like the ones
i named... and funnily, it IS actually surrounded by those exact
missiles i mentioned.... so i'd say my research is quite impeccable
in this regard, and if the terrorists (read: bush and his neocriminals)
wanted to, they could use their stock of WMD's to turn DC in to a
fireball. Just as they'll be there, its unlikely given that they
usually tend to avoid "pearl harbour" like events they engineer.

It seems irony is lost in an age when no one reads between the lines.

[NCN007]

43. What research?

What am I supposed to be reading between the lines, that Bush has the athority to use nuclear weapons? That he's planning on nuking DC? That he planned 9/11? Pearl Harbor? Please come back, the real world needs more serious liberals

[sweetheart]

49. Of course there is an implied threat to use WMD's

The neocons have long planned as part of the PNAC (project for the new
american century) to invade iraq. They needed a "pearl harbour like
event" as they describe it. This is wolfowitz and the other neocons.
Well, in fact, they are taking the world back in time before the
advent of international law, when the power of military force alone
and balance of imperial interests created the interlocking world...
that lead to world war 2 to start with. So, yes, he is advancing and
extending the empire in a brazen endeavour to provoke enemies in to
attacking america... as he said, "bring em on."

Planned 9/11, no. I do believe that they had foreknowledge and were
willing to look the other way, as they did when they let all their
saudi buddies fly out of the US after the attacks. Lihop (Let it happen
on purpose). So, yes, what i meant by reading between the lines, is
that indeed washington is ringed with several layers of missile
offenses... one is the batteries mentioned in the article, and then
around that is the massive strategic arsenal of nuclear tipped ICBM's
that project a global threat to use WMD's.

Then we have the asswipes making implied threats about china and the
european union ending its embargo for arms sales, with sabre rattling
then for iran, syria, and china, all of which conflicts could become
nuclear quite easily.

So DC has already been nuked and all that is left are half-wits and
ignorant fools who've survived the devastation of the theocratic
trashing of the constitutional republic. And indeed, by threatening
the world with nuclear weapons, bush has increased the likelihood
that washington DC will be nuked. I hope a serious liberal would
recognize that. :-)

[Mist]

25. I interpret it all differently

I can't help seeing all the weapons as a symptom of total paranoia.

[CarpeVeritas]

28. but when you stop to realize that they're the ones in charge-

it gets real scary...

[Mist]

30. Actually, I AM concerned about the protesters

It doesn't take much to start an "incident", but it still looks like a total over-reaction from the admin.

[Nimrod]

26. Will there be tanks in the parade?

Maybe a segment from Beethoven's 9th played over the loudspeaker?

[Catherine Vincent]

27. Hey...whatever it takes!

Whatever they can do to protect my beloved Clinton. I heard he is supposed to be there.

[AuntiBush]

31. I live 50 minutes from the Hill

Earlier tonight, we heard a huge explosion. Then sirens. Having no idea what it was, of course no station covered it locally.

Our nerves are on edge, to say the very least.

[DemoTex]

32. "Washington Tower, USAir 356 ten north on the river approach."

"US Air 356, continue .. you are following a Delta 737 over the Chain Bridge."

"We see Delta at the bridge .."

"OK US Air, slow to final approach speed and follow Delta"

"Tower, is Delta 456 cleared to land?"

"Delta 456 is cleared to land on runway 18"

"Delta 456 clear at taxiway Juliette and contact ground on 121.7"

"US Air 356 is cleared to land."

"US AIR! GO AROUND! GO AROUND! GO AROUND! Missile launch! GO AROUND!

Unknown: "Aircraft down! in the river."

UHF "What the hell?"

VHF "Shot down! I saw the rocket! They hit the Memorial Bridge. US Air is in the water!"

VHF: Radio ... static

[jayctravis]

33. I'm hoping George doesn't swear in then slap his hand down

on a button which does something ridiculous. Could be a Doctor Evil mechanism to eject Democrats from the platform. Or....cue the fireworks.

[fortyfeetunder]

34. What kind of range does this cr@p have?

My immediate concern is a false launch into a DC neighborhood. I will not be amused if it happens.

[NAO]

36. We had NORAD, anti-aircraft missile batteries on 9/11, yet pentagon was hit

Well, yes, we did have NORAD monitoring every inch of the airspace in real time;

They were in contact with the FAA and the White House via a conference call from around 9AM EST on;

There were automated anti-aircraft missile batteries protecting the White House and the Pentagon;

(The airspace around the Pentagon, is after all, the most heavily defended airspace IN THE WORLD);

Yet with all that, the Pentagon was still hit AN HOUR AND A HALF after the FAA KNEW that Flight 11 was hijacked, 40 minutes after TWO planes had crashed into the towers.

Complete 9/11 Timelines
http://cooperativeresearch.org/topic.jsp?topic=september_11

911 Truth Movement
http://www.911truth.org/

From the Wilderness
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/

[leesa]

37. Will we be lucky enough that they hit the King??

He deserted his country on 9-11 but now he is honored. America will pay a HUGE price for putting this criminal in power.

[pinniped]

39. This is a freaking military parade. I bet they got an Ohio class...

ICBM sub parked right along the Atlantic coast.

Do they have PT boats in the Potomac?

[smirkymonkey]

41. Am I the only person who thinks this is overkill?

I mean, it seems totally absurd to me.

I am glad to see our tax dollars hard at work protecting the good of the country. :eyes:

[Flammable Materials]

42. They already dropped the F-Bomb at the Armory. Whoopsie! n/t

[Mika]

44. Only tinpot dictators use military installations in civilian locations..

.. according to our tinpot dictator.

[Lisabtrucking]

45. Funny how history repeats itself.

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[Vidar]

46. Why doesn't chimp just do the whole red square parade routine?

[74dodgedart]

48. Nothing saysd freedom like missile launchers parked in the capitol..

Coming to a neighborhood near you