if one thinks russell was piloting that plane then I have a bridge in brooklyn i'd like to sell ya.
twas white hat/black hat op, jury's still out on who controlled the pilotless Q400, or at least i haven't seen definitive evidence as of yet.
despite what one thinks of Ayn Rand, she understood 'Statism' and defined it with surgical precision:
'A statist system — whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or “welfare” type — is based on the . . . government’s unlimited power, which means: on the rule of brute force. The differences among statist systems are only a matter of time and degree; the principle is the same. Under statism, the government is not a policeman, but a legalized criminal that holds the power to use physical force in any manner and for any purpose it pleases against legally disarmed, defenseless victims.
Nothing can ever justify so monstrously evil a theory. Nothing can justify the horror, the brutality, the plunder, the destruction, the starvation, the slave-labor camps, the torture chambers, the wholesale slaughter of statist dictatorships.'