Posted on 03/27/2024 6:41:41 AM PDT by SJackson
At 1:30 in the morning on Tuesday, a ship collided with a pylon of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore harbor, and within seconds, the entire bridge had collapsed. This will put the port of Baltimore, one of the busiest ports in the United States, out of action for months and maybe even years, which will inevitably have a massive negative effect on the local and national economy. The official story is that this was an accident, and if we had honest and trustworthy governing officials, that would be the end of the matter. But we don’t. And so questions are multiplying.
Old Joe Biden quickly stated: “Everything so far indicates that this was a terrible accident. At this time, we have no other indication. No other reason to believe there’s any intentional act here.” Since Biden has a record for lying that is unmatched even among the corruptocrats who currently occupy our nation’s highest positions of trust and responsibility, this statement in itself constitutes reasons to suspect that the destruction of the Key Bridge may have been quite intentional after all. And there are plenty more.
Steve Bannon noted Tuesday that the official explanation of what happened “doesn’t make sense.” He asked “how the ship turned directly into that [pylon] and the pilot didn’t drop the anchor? Dropping the anchor might’ve ripped the front of the ship apart, but it wouldn’t have taken out the bridge.”
All right, that’s a telling point, but there is no need to rush headlong down the rabbit hole. Maybe the pilot panicked. Maybe he had a terrible lapse in judgment. There is, however, much more. The courageous investigative journalist Lara Logan revealed that according to “multiple intel sources,” the destruction of the bridge was an “‘absolutely brilliant strategic attack’ on US critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – & our intel agencies know it.”
Logan listed some of the ways in which the collapse of the bridge would hurt the nation, and thus aid our enemies: “Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years – which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material – fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels – that supply chain now crippled.” She also pointed out that the ship hit one of “two load-bearing pylons on each end” of the bridge; these are “the anchor points,” and Logan said that the attackers “knew that hitting either one one of them would be a fatal wound to the integrity of the bridge.” The attack, she added, was “perfectly targeted.”
Not only that, but “when you choke off Baltimore you have cut the main north-south hazardous corridor (I95) in half. Now has to go around the city – or go somewhere else. To move some of that cargo through the tunnel you may be able to get a permit but those are slow to get and require an escort system that is expensive and has to be done at night. For every $100 dollars that goes into the city, $12 comes from shipping. Believe this will cripple the city of Baltimore at a time when they do not have the resources to recover.”
General Michael Flynn seemed to agree with Logan that the takedown of the bridge was intentional, or at very least was the result of incompetence in key positions. Flynn said: “This is a BLACK SWAN event. Black swans normally come out of the world of finance (not military). The standard operating procedures for all U.S. ports, harbors, and bays that transit commerce and military activities are supposed to maintain an incredible level of discipline, rigor and awareness for these very type events to not occur (ever!), yet here we are. There are harbor masters for every single one of these transit points in America that are in charge of assuring the safety of navigation…start there.” A black swan event is an unforeseen incident that has massive repercussions.
Counterterror analyst and former FBI agent John Guandolo, meanwhile, also agreed that the collapse of the bridge was likely intentional, and explained: “I worked several AQ [al-Qaeda]/Hamas cases while in the FBI & since and found – verified by state intel agencies – AQ/Hamas targeted key bridges to shut down exfil abilities so they could conduct significant level follow on attacks. This may be that or this may be an accident. I lean strongly towards NOT AN ACCIDENT. The fact FBI/DHS say it is NOT terrorism is a key indicator it is. FBI/DHS have been wrong 100% of the time they initially say its NOT terrorism (Ft Hood, Orlando, Ft Lauderdale, Lakewood TX..,)”
Yes, it has come to this: our government, intelligence and law enforcement officials are so untrustworthy that if they say an incident is not terrorism, it very likely is. The collision of the ship with the Francis Scott Key Bridge could end up being a testimony to the fecklessness and incompetence of local officials and the others involved, which is born of far too much time and money being squandered on Critical Race Theory, gender madness and the like, instead of on training competent personnel. Whether or not the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge really was a terror attack, it will certainly weaken the nation, and in that it benefits the enemies of the United States. And whether or not this was a terror attack, the numerous and growing list of unanswered questions demonstrates how little confidence thoughtful people have today in the honesty and veracity of those who bear the responsibility to protect and defend this nation.
I think Bannon knows a few things about ships:
Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he served on the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster as a surface warfare officer in the Pacific Fleet, and afterwards as a special assistant to the chief of naval operations at the Pentagon. Bannon’s job at the Pentagon was, among other things, handling messages between senior officers and writing reports about the state of the Navy fleet worldwide. While at the Pentagon, Bannon attended Georgetown University at night and obtained his master’s degree in national security studies.
In 1980, Bannon was deployed to the Persian Gulf to assist with Operation Eagle Claw during the Iran hostage crisis.
Drop the anchor? Like it’s a rowboat. The bridge protection was nonexistent.
Simple solution moving forward. Require a tugboat until big vessels are into the wide-open waters, clear of any infrastructure.
In Chesapeake Bay I guess that means all the way down to the bridge-tunnel at Virginia Beach.
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised at this point if it’s called the Ru Paul Bridge, with a Female Impersonator parade for it’s opening!
It’s Baltimore, almost no way in heck are they going to name it for anyone other than a black person.
“...the ship took a hard turn to starboard. Why?”
No doubt more will be learned about what exactly happened and when as the crew, captain, & pilot are debriefed. Whether or not the public will ever learn, who knows?
High chance. Who needs terrorists when you have business school grads running things?
Transportation used to be run by engineering school grads and people who had worked their way up in the system who generally put safety and maintenance first, knowing it was not only safer, but cheaper in the long run.
Now aerospace (airlines, aircraft manufacturing) and about everything else is run by business school grads who only look at the next quarter profits and look at maintenance as overhead.
ping
When the South Padre bridge was taken out, they rebuilt and put bumper pylons to protect it in the rebuild. It was taken out by a barge in the ICW. Eight people were killed.
https://www.ksat.com/news/national/2024/03/26/key-bridge-collapse-brings-haunting-memories-of-queen-isabella-causeway-tragedy-in-texas/
It took 2 weeks to recover the bodies, and it was a lot smaller. Cars continued to drive in the water after it collapsed.
Didn’t the Pelosis run Baltimore for a while? Maybe name it after Nan’s dad.
They did when the Mafia was a big factor in’city govts’, nationwide.She’s the ‘more famous’ one from that corrupt, criminal family.
He got President Trump elected in 16, what have you done to fight the fight. You forgot to mention Laura Logan’s report later in the day.
Good guess, but I think that Post #24 is probably right.
I was thinking accident.... but now I'm starting to wonder.
That makes way too much sense. Intentional or not, the left/Dems/Deep State is not going to let this crisis go to waste. Biden’s minions will slow roll the rebuild to further strain the economy and then blame it on Trump.
HAZMATs can take I-695 around the west side of Baltimore like they used to do before the bridge. It’s not that big a deal and not anywhere as big as getting the Port back in service.
When he was a naval surface warfare officer for seven years, and served on a destroyer.
My money’s on the Tupac Shakur Memorial Bridge.
I would think dropping the anchor could easily swing it right in to those pylons as it is dragging along the bottom.
All my guns were on the boat....
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