Why the Rush to Judgment on the Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse?
Seems like there are reasonable questions to be asked here
Likud influencer Josh Hammer doesn’t want you to ask questions about the Key Bridge collapse up in Baltimore. We are expected not to be sensationalist about the sensational. He called me a Nazi recently, which I am not, but I’ll avoid repaying the insult by calling him a dual loyalist traitor or something. He’s already well on the way to discrediting himself.
Let’s take a close look at his column.
The third graf:
Amid such a stupor, and perhaps especially just a few days after the horrific ISIS massacre in Moscow that left at least 140 dead and 360 more injured, it is not at all unreasonable to openly ponder that very question: How?
Well, Josh, we know how. It’s because ISIS is a proxy of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
This is the real meat of it:
Perhaps it was a cyberattack; perhaps the ship's captain and crew were incompetent, hired as a result of affirmative action and the “diversity” agenda; perhaps they were hostile foreign agents who infiltrated Synergy Marine Group, Dali's owner; or perhaps the tragedy was an “inside job” intended to manufacture a crisis that President Joe Biden could then exploit in a presidential election year.
Also within hours, though, we had enough information to know what happened: Dali, which was captained by a highly trained and experienced local pilot, lost power in a tragic fluke incident. The Dali pilot actually had the foresight to issue a mayday distress signal, thus allowing local law enforcement and highway patrol to scamper to close off the bridge. Every innocent life lost is of course a tragedy, but it is still somewhat remarkable that one of the most traversed bridges in the entire “Acela Corridor” collapsed like a toy and only six people are presumed dead because of it.
Fellow Likud influencer Costin Alamariu thinks it’s relevant that the local pilot is a woman, but Hammer is a little more classy.
Cyberattacks can cause power losses, so it is by no means clear that it was a “tragic fluke accident.” And Hammer is a strong partisan of one of the world’s most notorious state purveyors of cyberattacks.
Even the New York Times considers the mechanical situation on the Dali unexplained at this point. So the rush to judgment is very curious.
“Many continued to promote baseless ‘alternative’ explanations anyway, inconvenient facts notwithstanding,” he writes a little further down, but a “tragic fluke accident” is hardly a fact or explanation, it’s better considered a lack of one.
He writes: “Note to the hyper-online: Sometimes a so-called conspiracy theory is just an actual conspiracy theory.”
Another word for a racketeering indictment is a conspiracy theory. The purpose of a trial is to determine whether it holds up. It follows that the vituperation reserved for people who dare to voice what are considered conspiracy theories has benefitted no one so much as racketeers.
We might say much the same about this NBC column by Kalhan Rosenblatt. I don’t care for Andrew Tate, but it doesn’t seem beyond the pale to consider the possibility of a cyberattack here.
A little over a month ago the Biden administration signed a new executive order on maritime cybersecurity threats, so notwithstanding ridiculous Likud propagandists who are friends with Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, there are serious national security professionals who are prepared to ask the right questions here.
Black box missing 2 minutes right before impact?
Why on earth is considering a cyberattack “conspiracy weeds?”
Are the admin officials who issued the EO on cyberattacks on ports conspiracy theorists?
And why didn’t any of the Newsweek or NBC journalists reference the recent EO but were more than happy to dig up tweets from dubious right wing influencers?