Quote Originally Posted by Defcon View Post
I think it was established in the first movie that the Decepticons had little regard for human life by starting a fight in a populated area, 'Mission City' and its fair to consider them a threat worth taking out. The Decepticons arriving on earth and just hiding, seems like infiltration and espionage rather than refugees to me.
Made as much sense for the military to extract the allspark from a densly populated area too...

And then it was apparently covered up...? Two buildings fell down about 10 years ago and we still haven't heard the last of it... <runs>