An Air France flight from Paris to Mexico had to make an unscheduled stop in Martinique when US air traffic controllers notified the jet that it would not be receiving permission to fly over US airspace.
(Source: Gadling.com)
The plane was carrying a Colombian journalist, Hernando Calvo Ospina, who works for Le Monde Diplomatique. Ospina has written about America’s shady involvement in South America and is working on a book on the CIA. So you could say, he’s persona non grata.
What’s interesting is that the plane wasn’t stopping in the US. It was actually headed for Mexico. The passenger manifests shouldn’t have been made known to the Americans, but obviously, Mexico is sharing passenger manifests.
The jet was denied permission to even temporarily enter US airspace. This is now quite typical of America, which has become the fascist state that Naomi Wolf amongst others has warned us of. I am finding it increasingly difficult to differentiate between totalitarian regimes and the hypocritical, torturing, murdering, opponent-suiciding, warmongering, “enlightened” Western states. This is a shame, because I am a Westerner and I am tainted by association.
The real story here is that if the control of US airspace is so tight, how did 9/11 happen?
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The irony is almost comical.
Fascism – here we come? No, here we are.
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum,
It was tightened up after 9/11, is the answer. Airlines supplying lists of passengers was introduced after 9/11, along with other measures giving the US government the right to dictate who could fly and who couldn’t. Michael Moore gave one example of a member of the US Green Party being refused permission to board a flight to Prague to attend some sort of conference, so obviously it was being used for political reasons and not just to prevent terrorism.
Weren’t the jets hijacked on 9/11 all internal US flights anyway? Restrictions on entry to US airspace wouldn’t have made any difference.
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