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The FAA Just Closed Low-Flying Airspace Over Ferguson
The Ferguson "revolution" may be televised courtesy of straight to YouTube cell phone clips, but any chopper-based TV crews will have to find a different vantage point, as will any and all low flying aircraft (with the exception of US government drones of course), because moments ago, the FAA announced that starting 1315 UTC through 2000 UTC on August 12, "No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM (except as described). ONLY RELIEF AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS UNDER DIRECTION OF ST." The Reason? "TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES." Because TV crews recording every incident put "law enforcement" in jeopardy?
The full statement:
FDC 4/2599 ZKC MO..AIRSPACE FERGUSON, MO..TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS WITHIN AN AREA DEFINED AS 3 NM RADIUS OF 384428N0901812W (ST LOUIS VORTAC STL129011.0) SFC-3000FT TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES. PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.137(A)(2) TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT. ONLY RELIEF AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS UNDER DIRECTION OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE AUTHORIZED IN THE AIRSPACE. AIRCRAFT LANDING AND DEPARTING ST. LOUIS LAMBERT AIRPORT ARE EXEMPT FROM THIS TFR. ST. LOUIS COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT, TELEPHONE 3148892360 , IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. KANSAS CITY /ZKC/ ARTCC, TELEPHONE 9132548500, IS THE FAA COORDINATION FACILITY. 1408121315-1408182000
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To summarize, in addition to the heavily militarized police presence, and the barring of journalists and protestors, the government just prohibited news helicopters. Which, of course, is simply government code that tonight Ferguson may get "turbulent."
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I feel safer already.
Are they trying to keep the news helicopters out?
What? Why? They can't fling poo that high.
someone wants this to get much worse.... posting twitter messages to pilage white neighborhoods:
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/11/loot-and-rob-them-not-your-own-twitter-use...
...and here come dem drones...
And so it begins...
I feel safe.... I think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB37TCDcZBg
I'm sorry to interrupt this important putt Mr. Pressident...
I pray that those good folks who were valiantly defending the Bundy Ranch make their way to Ferguson to protect the people there from looters and from the defective "law enforcement" that caused this whole fucking mess.
Something is going to go down shortly and it won't be pretty, unless the people stop what is coming.
I am Chumbawamba.
Don't want those news choppers catching drone attacks on tape now do we
Test run for the continent!
Roll in the Storm Trooperz, Bitchez!
Drop a pallet of air jordens and Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
The whole Ferguson incident shows why we need to confiscate people's guns in this country.
Just imagine not having guns. The police will never feel threatened by us and treat us like neighbors. There will be hugs and high-fives all around.
Hugs and high-fives, not guns.
I'll turn in all the guns that govco knows about, and you should do the same. Let them shoot your ass.
At least the Negroes have the courage to do something, albeit pointless looting. The Caucasians just roll over and spread their ass-cheeks while they moan "More please sir."
The Caucasions that showed up at the Bundy ranch stood face to face with with heavily armed Feds, and didn't flinch. They also didn't loot liquor stores.
You know its OK to call yourself a Proud White Person?
I am actually receiving word in my ear piece that ITS NOT OK, apparently.
Dear Liberal
AND JUST WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO DO THE CONFISCATING YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!?
OK, he missed the /sarc label - lighten up.
I see a politically oriented MDB being born.
-30-
Yeah I'll lighten up..
my magazine by putting afew round down range at em..
Those pro-Russian rebels sure do get around.....
Now we know the reason for this NOTAM... The "natives" of Ferguson were shooting at Police helicopters...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/12/faa-issues-flight-restriction-after-ri...
Yeah and anything else flying over head. Mayhem & chaos doesn't know what skin pigment is.
And they will not go into the burbs. How do I know this? Its a minority of a minority doing stupid shit, like accidently shooting a grandma walking her daughters kids home.
I lived through Hurricane Katrina. Some of the looters were shooting at the police helicopters. Just saying. Bitchez.
How does excluding everybody other than police aircraft make police aircraft safe from ground fire?
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Lambert Airport reports the flight restrictions for commercial aircraft over Ferguson — imposed by the FAA after riots — have been lifted.
Lambert Airport Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge previously said that at the urging of police, the FAA had ordered no flights over Ferguson for the time being.
“There had been a shot in the air sometime Sunday evening, there had also been a helicopter flying over,” she said. “It doesn’t mean it was shooting at the helicopter but there was a shot into the air, so they put this temporary flying order in place.”
http://www.reddit.com/live/tdrph3y49ftn
Just saw 43 cops with lights on heading down 70 from the airport direction towards downtown. Apparently over the scanners they have told everyone to switch to Riot.
Reddit- So who knows. But could the airspace have been restricted because someones were flying in?
My spidey sense is tingling and my tin foil hat is well secured.
Can you believe a damned thing 'reported' by the media or by the government ?
Next they'll say Putin supplied the looters with an anti air missile battery.
Perhpas Israel should restrict flights to Misouri ... /Sarc
And how close was the nearest liquor store in Utah?
Nevada, doofus.
Or break into stores and steal big shiny wheels and rims! Trinkets and shiny every time...
But the police will NEVER give you their guns ...
The suppression will not be televised.
Sure they will.
From their cold dead hands...
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We really need a sarcasm font type. I almost thought that was a real comment.
Is this guy 'Liberal' extremely naive, or just writing tongue-in-cheek?
Tongue-in-cheek. He's actually improved, much better the MDB ;-)
Nikelear war?
"Nike-nuking".
Nike them from orbit?
Drop a million 20-dollar bills. The looters will kill each other to get their share. Only a few will survive. They'll be rich. No more looting in Ferguson. Problem solved.
Hey... gotta clear the way for the DRONES
Maybe they try an EMP. Then move in military style. This way nothing goes to youtube. Just speculating.
I was wondering if they shutdown the cell phone towers in that area as well.
Good question. Made me chuckle thinking about the old man arrested rolling down the interstate with a signal jammer.
I see phone numbers.
Find a pay phone and call and ask if you can fly your drone there.
I bet TPTB are kicking themselves for not getting the smartphone kill switch in place before all this.
Humanitarian Aid.
Now that is cold....
...on to Chicago.
...on to Detroit.
Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn.
East St. Louis = Mogadishu on the Miss.
pods
They could raze all those shitholes, and nobody would even notice.
You are not kidding, I have been through there. I was going to Michigan and asked directions. This joker directed straight through the heart of the most crime infest area of the city.
Clark Griswold.
My old neighborhood.
Why would anyone drive to Mishitgan?
UP is nice this time of year, eh?
Just to visit, then escape.
Is that place still standing? I got lost around there about 10 years ago. Even then it was a wasteland. All those missionaries feel compelled to go to Africa when the same conditions can be found within 100 miles of their congregations... Willful ignorance and denial doesn't even begin to describe it.
Ferguson in the North St. Louis suburbs., It's not anywhere near East St. Louis.
White people are very phobic about blacks in St.Louis. Any neighborhood where you might possibly see a black face is consisdered to be a bad place to live. So I think there might be a bit of overreaction going on there.
That being said, looting should never be tolerated.
Unless of course you are white and work for Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan and only loot in the tens of millions of dollars. Don't kid yourself, HFT is looting.
HFT is looting? Don't stop there: All 'high finance' is looting.
Overreation? I think not... The reason this NOTAM was issued was because the "natives" of Ferguson were shooting at Police helicopters...
How does closing airspace to all aircraft other than police aircraft keep police helicopters safe?
Clear airspace for air to ground ordnance delivery.
I dunno.. Everybody knows Freedom is delivered via US Military drone.
Well, I guess I had better get the reloading bench cleared off, even though I'm nowhere near there. I am near Albuquerque though, and shit tends to happen here too.
With you all the way.
MO is a shithole
hey vaq, i'm old school with the imr-4895. just curious what your favorite flavor is
Like this... http://www.easybakegunclub.com/news/5234/Rioters-havent-hit-this-store-i...
I was at Bundy Ranch, but they also employed the same scheme of restricting airspace, in order to control media and the narrative. The last thing TPTB want is aerial images of masses of pissed off people.
Note how indymedia jumped on the announcement. It's like waving a big red flag in front of a bull: "SOMETHING ABOUT TO HAPPEN HERE THAT WE DON'T WANT FOLKS TO SEE." It's an INVITATION to anyone with a camera. Lesson from other recent boondoggles: RECORD IT ALL FOR POSTERITY IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
They need to control the media, because the media are morons (well, journalism majors to be precise, but why quibble). During the Rodney King riots in LA, KTLA news choppers were hovering over the city making broadcasts like "we are at Slauson and Normandy, where looters are carrying away stereos and TVs, and there are no cops in sight!". They were practically cheering the looters on.
Looks like they closed airspace through August 18?? WTF??
Just practicing those heavy handed police state tactics. The heavily militarized police force needs lots of practice before its for realz.
They just don't want people to record the choppers that drop the Ebola virus into the 'hood.
If they just dropped dime bags of weed and purple drank this whole situation would be solved in under an hour.
Read the news reports, it was started by Jaywalking.
We just need to get the epidemic of Jaywalking under control.
We feel totally safe, frolicking on a beach, near La Hoya, CA.
Oh, wait... the place is changing into a total riot... with the little people screaming and going nuts.
Hmm, perhaps Puff the Magic Dragon is about to make a pass...
Well, that would make MRAPs look pretty tame.
Beginning of the end, maybe. At some point we trip over into a much darker world.
This is the beginning of the end of the end of the beginning, which means we're getting close to the middle.
... said one jaw of the vise to the other.
Better...
"The End Justifies the Means."
Unless you have a harbor freight vise.
The jaws break off, and one falls to the floor.
seems like 9 weeks and 5 days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkVzspuCkxg
Can you say 'agent provocateur"?
Do I get to say it with a fake French accent?
Depends on what you're wearing. Give me a hint.
Like the underwear?
I wonder if this is twofold. First, won't be any pesky third party reporting of how the riot cops handle things and second, wont be any repeats of the Reginald Denny beating that would portray a certain demographic as less than civilized.
pods
The Proles needed to redirected away from Putin's humanitarian mission in Ukraine.
Flapjacks for the hungry, civil uprising for the circus.
Didn't Rome burn?
All we're going to have is shitloads of vertical cell phone videos.
BS - I'm vacationing in Ferguson as part of my Dystopia tour.
If this is true why do I see Malaysian airliners flying overhead at 2500 feet, every 60 minutes?
He the one Chemtrailing the nano-borne hepC, scurvy, influenza, infertility and polio stuff?
"Don't Drone me, Bro!"
dey drones.
Would those pussies really take it to the white neibourhoods?
Don't white Americans own guns and have a strong sense of Private Property???
The ones who aren't fags and liberals do.
I am Chumbawamba.
No they won't take it to white neighborhoods, we're fucking armed to the teeth by now.
When you see black people digging out their Tec-9's, AK-47's and other shit and firing on the police? THEN you'll know they are ready to fight.
Those are inaccurate.
Something smells fishy. Non-white people writing understandable english.
ummm ummm yeah...
Just like those pre-printed professionally made signs and flags that pop up all over the world during times of spontaneous uprisings.
Big tell, MF, big tell... great catch
Thanks god we have the chocolate coloured president who will put a quick end to this nonsense!
Is Victoria Nuland in St. Louis?
Somebody has to bring democracy there.
Democracy? I would guess at least 115% of those democrats voted for Obama. Look around folks, this is why I will never be impeached.
"Supersonic Democracy" only guarantees the right outcome. If democracy results in a result the deep state doesn't like it is ignored. (See elections in Gaza, Crimea and Donetsk for reference.)
I've heard it said, they won't impeach him for fear of race riots. What do you think?
9 out of 10 brick throwers in St Loius would agree.
I never considered it but that would make sense. I thought it was to ensure a R win in 2016 but nobody could lose against Joe. That would be the other logical explanation.
I'm not saying this was done for political reasons, it's just interesting that race riots has really been proposed as a reason to not impeach him. In that case we're being held hostag. They have more than enough cause to impeach even if it doesn't actually remove him.
Hmmm, have you considered the possibility that a Democrat-controlled Senate influenced the decision?
I think it's actually the no opposition Repubs that are afraid to impeach. The argument used is that it will motivate the Democrat base or in the extreme case, cause riots. That's why I don't think he'll ever be impeached even if Repubs win the Senate in November.
On a related note they are looting miles away from Ferguson. Love it or hate it this is some sound strategy from the usual suspects.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/looting-spreads-shoe-carnival-in...
I usually take Infowars with a grain of salt, but this one's looking more like conspiracy fact:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wALNWwzERQ4
"I usually take Infowars with a grain of salt"
Common man! Odds are in favor of the truth when you have a ratio of a grain to a shaker.
surprised they can spell "neighborhoods" without ebonics.....
Maybe texting improves spelling?
..........
Text prediction can make anyone look smrt.
Not when I was at the auto rental counter, and texted my brother "please come over so I can add you as a cod river"
No surprises every 2 bit shit stirrer is going to use this to their advantage for secondary agendas. They always do.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Bad idea for fools stupid enough to do that, not sure what laws are there for firearms. But, in FL. doing something stupid like that get you killed real fast.
There would be a pile of bodies on my front porch.
A guy defended his gun store and neighbor's tatoo parlor with his AR-15. Looters went to easier targets. - - - - This guy said that things had quieted down a great deal, especially after the mother of the kid shot asked for an end to the looting.
There seems to be a helluva lot of hype out there.
Thanks Slave. I needed a good laugh
Malaysian Airlines take note.
Looks like someone is planning a Waco type example.
Geez, Winnie, they do a Waco in Ferguson and the whole domestic army Obie promised us has to go into action for that billion bullet suppression...
Oh just a teeny weenie addition to the other shit designed to stress the system.
Our Cloward-Piven Tax Dollars at Work
And here's one for you conspiracy theorists...
Explains the whole DUMBS stories...
uh huh.... uh huh... uh huh...
unless Anderson Pooper was flying in for a live interview with the folks on the ground?
Slave- that is so wrong and so racist. I'm ashamed of you. I tried to down-vote you but I think I clicked the green arrow purely by accident.
;)
"keep the news helicopters out?"
Of course.
They learned some lessons from the OWS protests. They want a clean run this time, in and out quickly, no pictures, no backlash, no UN involvement.
Time you all start paying attention. Whatever you think about the looters set that aside for a moment, this is becoming Ground Zero of the rise of the Fascist US police state.
True that, Cougar. I was at the worst of the OWS shenanigans and the press was the only thing keeping the cops from cutting loose and cracking serious cranium!
Whatever rationale the city gives the net effect= mayhem.
Get out of that city pronto.
14 CFR 91.137(a)(2) - Provide a safe environment for the operation of disaster relief aircraft.
THAT is the rationale - disaster relief aircraft! If it wasn't so fucked up, it would be too funny.
Meh, you don't care anyway!
The TFR isn't big enough to hide from the media's zoom lenses. Besides, the media hasn't covered any of this with helicopters in the first place. At least, not at night when the burning and looting has been occuring. They just aren't well equipped for nightime helicopter news casts, TFR or no TFR. This has to do with Lambert International Airport right next door and not having airliners and numbskulls like me in C172's having to dodge police helicopters that are in pursuit of looters.
I live in an area that routinely experiences civil unrest and riots. We have two major airports nearby, constant air traffic, and they never shut down the airspace.
At least the cops will be safe.
Good luck out there in no-fly-over-country.
Edit: The restriction isn't so you won't collide with a police helicopter.
The decision to request the FAA’s help in securing flight restriction ”was made immediately when our St. Louis County Police helicopter was fired at multiple times on Sunday night,” St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman told The Daily Caller.
“Due to the hostile scene, they called for the restriction for the safety of those flying,” Schellman said. “As soon as [police commanders] feel it is safe to resume so, they will lift the restriction.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/12/faa-issues-flight-restriction-after-rioters-fired-multiple-times-at-police-helicopter/#ixzz3ADdqqJO9"St. Louis County police spokesman"
Hmmm? shifts tinfoil.
It doesn't matter what the police spokesman said. The FAA gives the reason for the NOTAM as "To Provide a Safe Environment for Law Enforcement Activities." The cops may have been shot at, but a TFR isn't going to make the cops less likely to be shot at.
The TFR goes out to airmen. If the danger was of their aircraft being hit by gunfire, that's what the reason would be.
They still have their Obamaphones
Even Ferguson is not the real thing. It's just a full dress rehearsal for what's to come.
The old "Let no crisis go to waste".
"Are they trying to keep the news helicopters out?"
Nope. Barry mistakenly armed the mob with MANPADS. It is hard to keep track of those things when you hand them out like cans of RedBull at a Rave.
Citxmech re "Are they trying to keep the news helicopters out?" :
No, they're free to fly over at 4000 feet and above - just no low flying aircraft. Better get a better zoom lens.
They are going to cordon off the area and keep everyone where they are at.
Here's how it's done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKrL8x13nig
Whirly birds are so 1990's Watts riots. We got dronez, 0'Bammy phonez and can stream it all to Qik or Livecast...until the subpoenas appear.
Can't afford to have an eye in the sky recording those, "protecting and serving."