Pan - "Anybody else find it hinky that it didn't go off 'without a hitch'?"
Nope, not in latter day prog-happy America deep into Obamunism...sounds like a play right out of Allinsky's book for demons.
Trap - "...gently shoving them out the side door of a C130 over shark infested waters. Bonus: It's recycling."
I like it, but I think the sharks deserve a warmer meal...I mean at too high an altitude and some of thus chum might not be awake for their finned pals below...
My idea has always been to take the worst of the worst (murderers, pedophiles and pederasts, rapists, progressive politicians...) and put them on a remote island, pen in some sharks around the island, and the only prison staff required are surface and sub-surface patrols ensuring the shark net is unmolested and nobody trying to swim out makes it past that barrier (as long as the barrier is intact they won't). And the surface patrol craft should be armed with the latest and greatest in SAM technology to prevent any rescues from the air...the only air traffic allowed should be for new arrivals to be dumped in the middle of the thing. What this scum does to each other shouldn't concern anybody outside its perimeter.
But your recycling angle I really like, eco-nuts should really dig that one, eh?