A small plane, or maybe a helicopter, hit a high-rise apartment building in NYC about an hour ago. There’s no word on casualties yet. NORAD has ordered aircraft patrol in NY, Boston, and possibly other cities as precautionary measure, although “FBI spokeswoman Christine Monaco said there was no indication the crash was a terrorist attack.”
Because I’m only half a totally calloused jackass, my first concern was whether anyone was hurt. But because I’m half a totally calloused jackass, my second thought was whether we’ll find out the truth about this attack. If it were a terrorist attack, that could undermine the administration’s oft-asserted claims that the war on terror is working, since we haven’t been hit since 9/11. And if it weren’t a terrorist attack, that wouldn’t be very useful in trying to scare people. So many reasons to lie, either way.
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