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Most Transparent Administration Ever? Ferguson No-Fly Zone Was "To Keep The Media Out"
Three months ago when we questioned the FAA's decision to issue a no-fly zone over Ferguson "to provide a safe environment for law enforcement activities" because TV crews recording every incident put "law enforcement" in jeopardy? We were scoffed at by the usual suspects as conspiracy wonks who need to get out of our mom's basement. Sadly - for America and its citizenry - we have once again been proved 100% correct as yet another conspiracy theory becomes fact. As AP reports, audio recordings show that local authorities privately acknowledged the purpose was to keep away news helicopters during violent street protests. "They finally admitted it really was to keep the media out," said one FAA manager about the St. Louis County Police in a series of recorded telephone conversations obtained by The Associated Press. "But they were a little concerned of, obviously, anything else that could be going on."
The U.S. government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Missouri, for 12 days in August for safety, but audio recordings show that local authorities privately acknowledged the purpose was to keep away news helicopters during violent street protests.
On Aug. 12, the morning after the Federal Aviation Administration imposed the first flight restriction, FAA air traffic managers struggled to redefine the flight ban to let commercial flights operate at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and police helicopters fly through the area — but ban others.
"They finally admitted it really was to keep the media out," said one FAA manager about the St. Louis County Police in a series of recorded telephone conversations obtained by The Associated Press. "But they were a little concerned of, obviously, anything else that could be going on.
At another point, a manager at the FAA's Kansas City center said police "did not care if you ran commercial traffic through this TFR (temporary flight restriction) all day long. They didn't want media in there."
FAA procedures for defining a no-fly area did not have an option that would accommodate that.
"There is really ... no option for a TFR that says, you know, 'OK, everybody but the media is OK,'" he said. The managers then worked out wording they felt would keep news helicopters out of the controlled zone but not impede other air traffic.
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One FAA official at the agency's command center asked the Kansas City manager in charge whether the restrictions were really about safety. "So are (the police) protecting aircraft from small-arms fire or something?" he asked. "Or do they think they're just going to keep the press out of there, which they can't do."
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"Any evidence that a no-fly zone was put in place as a pretext to exclude the media from covering events in Ferguson is extraordinarily troubling and a blatant violation of the press's First Amendment rights," said Lee Rowland, an American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney specializing in First Amendment issues.
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said in a statement Sunday his agency will always err on the side of safety. "FAA cannot and will never exclusively ban media from covering an event of national significance, and media was never banned from covering the ongoing events in Ferguson in this case."
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So much for the "most transparent administration ever" meme.
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Libya: no fly zone, American jackboots on the ground
Ferguson: no fly zone, American jackboots on the ground
if you like your foreign intervention/occupation you'll LOVE the domestic version.
We were scoffed at by the usual suspects as conspiracy wonks who need to get out of our mom's basement.
Er no, I think basically everyone on earth - minus some racist nutters going on about looting or some stupid shit - had figured out the ferguson police were lying in pretty much every statement they made.
Transparently propagandistic.
Intentional media suppression by the police = conspiracy to deny civil rights under color of authority = federal felony.
Not that anyone cares about rule of law.
and lemme guess ... Obola knew nothing about this !
I guess that puts the feces flinging protection thesis to rest.
And here I thought it was to send a message to the mighty ISIS air force, or are they the same?
Obama didnt know anything about this until he read it in the paper, again.
Obola didn't care anything about this. You are subject to his edicts, no matter what part of the Constitution he is trashing today.
+100
that town's gonna be an effin inferno when the GJ comes back w/o an indictment
Transparency, the truth, the media? since when?
Wah wah waysis
The magic mulatto is transparent. He wishes to be a dictator
hmmm ....funny you will only read about this here... even though they are the ones taking it in the ass they are incapable of questioning orthodoxy. MSM is like a bunch of battered women
>>>> As AP reports <<<<
How do people on here routinely miss stories that are reported in every major news outlet in america. zh was actually late to the table on this one.
And AP is always first? First with truth? first with accuracy?
And AP is always first? First with truth? first with accuracy?
The above is an ap story you tool.
So this is their first? Statist operation with a leftist agenda. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn occasionally. We are seeing leftists make a push to the center days before the election to save what they can by acting more centrist. It will be gone by Thursday. At least they have one fan here.
You guys should pay more attention to the sources zh aggregates, as you would see AP, bloomberg, FT, guardian, NYT etc. cited on a frequent basis.
Anyway, a free press is one of the primary tenets of liberalism so only God knows what you're rambling about.
Yes, many times cited in derision...we make fun of them. And free press...your saying they are not bought and paid for?
NYT...chuckle snort. The pinnacle of unbiased reporting.
What do you mean you make fun of them? The stories are BASED on them. Tyler adds commentary to what is already reported. zh is not a news source, like huffpo (particularly in early days) - it's mostly an aggregator. As above, and a few recently posted:
Bloomberg:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-03/wti-tumbles-29-month-lows-after...
FT+Reuters:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-03/how-petrodollar-quietly-died-an...
Bloomberg:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-03/something-seriously-broken
AP is a newswire you fucking idiot. They run hundreds of stories each day. The news outlets select which stories to push. Others are buried and forgotten
I realize y'all have the reading comprehension skills of a retarded monkey so things need to be said many times before they get through, but i'll try and underline the main bit.. as I pointed out, zh got it from AP and reported it same as many major newspapers. I saw this story at least half a dozen times before zh picked it up though. No crazy conspiracy to bury it..
The next time the government tells us the truth when it does something, wake me up if I haven't already died of old age.
Totalitarian Authoritarian Fascist Bananna Rrpublic Militarized Police State hell bent on Total Complete Full Spectrum World Domination.
Yeah....................so?
Baah baaah........hey did you all know there are black and white sheep!?
Psst! Got any wool? Need it pulled over some eyes...
The American reaction to Ferguson is just a foretaste of what is really in store for the first Americans who dare to go to the streets in protest over the corrupt government and their police state control of all of our lives. I can't saw what or who will be involved in Americans joining to make a real street protest movement. But lets face it, todays elites, politicians and their militarized cops are not going to stand for protest of any kind. They will use all means to crush it. This is what makes America telling others in the world HOW they should live a complete joke. Like in Ukraine, where America demanded the Euro Maidan protestors be left alone and not controlled by the police. Every American thought, "yes" set these people free to protest their wicked oligarch government. YET, we have such wicked Oligarchs ruling America. So, when is it our turn to protest?
One thing I do know. If people dare to raise their heads in protest inside America, the cops will smash their heads in! Why is there NO protest, despite all the corruption? Too fat, to brain washed by media and public education, too duped by popular culture. The youth living in Mom's basement, are too underdeveloped mentally to protest jack shit. 13 years in state institutions, and 19 years of corporate media has left most of American youth so under educated and so brain washed. There is no hope of them ever speaking out.
The tiny minority who ever does protest, will have all the power of the corrupt and fascist police state come down on their heads. Perhaps as bad as what Putin did to the freedom fighters of Pussy Riot.
If you like the boot stomping on your face, you can keep it!
and even if you don't, citizen.
So if the autopsy reports are accurate, what ARE they protesting? When we have protests based on facts and not conjecture, especially racist conjecture, then maybe we will make some headway. Otherwise this is only more noise that supports the status quo.
They're waiting for Superman or Captain America. The great myth which they believe is that a god or destiny has chosen them and will save them by their birth in America. Their god is a delusion planted in their minds by government schools and its media's running dogs.
There is no hope for those who cannot see and act.
George Soros is the Brian Epstein of Pussy Riot. And suprise suprise Gomer - Epstein had been ripping off The Beatles.
There is protest and there is revolt. Protest are meaningless. Revolt on the other hand is more in line with not so much head crashing,but loss of life. At that point,they who revolt will be deemed Terrrrrrrist.
Listen.
WTF is wrong with you Americans. Cross the road at the god damned approved cross-walks!
Fucking idiots!
BTW: you have to "PAY" for your items at the store, you can't just pick them and walk out without paying. Illegal dummies.
Think America, think!
Bangalore Equit... "Listen"
No, you listen!
How to Spot – and Defeat – Disruption on the Internet.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/the-15-rules-of-internet-disinfor...
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No fly zone was to prevent the media from showing what Obama's sons were up to.
same thing when Deepwater Horizon sank, the Media was barred from all clean up areas.
Crowd fund the law suit
F* the Corporate owned media and their blatant Sh*t disturbing agenda!
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4fd9ee1e6bb3f7af5700000a/media-...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qci9G4bLW88/UWbb9mbswLI/AAAAAAAAAGE/p-yqRdzlkF...
And the same applies to every last 2 bit a**hole with an iphone camera and a floodlight alleging to be merely exercising their 1st amendment right at MIDNIGHT, giving a venue for all of those race card pimps / 'protestors' obviously providing a crowd cover for all of the anarchists. arsonists and looters!
And F* the derelict Governor of MO. for not immediately calling in the Guard to preserve the Rule of Law!
I'm sure that the looted and burned out business owners whose insurance policies have an exclusion provision in cases of "Riot", are asking themselves WTF now?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/21/Ferguson-Protesters-C...
Conducting Psyops on the American people is an act of war against the people.