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Plane Coverup?: 1 Head Rolls in DC, 0 in NYCThe "Scare Force One" report was released on Friday at 4:30 p.m. White House Military Office Director Louis Caldera was thrown under the bus and has resigned. What about New York City? Where is the press? Have any FOI requests been filed? Mayor Bloomberg was "furious" at low-level manager Marc Mugnos, who allegedly never told anyone about this. Mugnos himself hasn't said a word to the press. Something stinks. According to the White House report, there was a teleconference with "local authorities" on April 3rd. Mugnos has done this stuff before, coordinating airplanes not to interfere with the US Open. It just strains all believability that Mugnos didn't tell either the mayor or any deputy mayor. I just don't believe it. It strains all believability that the NYPD was informed and Ray Kelly knows nothing. I just don't believe it. Low-level employees in both the mayor's office and the NYPD are at fault? And no one is fired? You believe that? Wanna sell me the Brooklyn Bridge? Where is the press? Does anyone investigate anything? Do politicians get a free pass in New York City nowadays? LINKS: Mayor Bloomberg on Air Force One fiasco: Fughedaboutit…By Jimmy Orr | 05.07.09(...)
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Notify NYC failed to notify New York City.
The City Council does nothing? No investigation at all? Too busy with that "official apple" stuff?
LINKS:
http://constanttine.blogspot.com/2009/05/idiot.html
Johnny Villafane, 42, of the Upper West Side, said, “The plane did a 360. There was a vibration. The glass in the skyscrapers was shivering.” He added, “It sounded like the building were cracking, everything started shaking. I thought the plane was coming down.”
Notify NYC, a pilot electronic service intended to quickly provide emergency alerts to New Yorkers who sign up for them, did not prove particularly effective.
Text messages and e-mail messages explaining the flyover were sent out at 10:38 a.m., after the exercise was already scheduled to end. “The community was startled, and would have preferred advance warning,” said Catherine McVay Hughes, vice chairwoman of Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notify_NYC
Notify NYC is a service launched in 2007 that allows residents of some areas of New York City to receive alerts on many different communications devices, such as cell phones, landlines, pagers, and email accounts. The service was created to notify residents about events such as traffic jams, construction work, road closings, and other disruptions or situations where emergency notification is appropriate. Residents can choose which specific alerts they would like to sign up for, and for what neighborhoods.
The program is still in its pilot phase. The following communities are currently part of the program: The Rockaways, SW Staten Island, NE Bronx, and Lower Manhattan.