[Sustain] Fwd: Blue Angels

[Don Eichelberger]

I went to

http://www.quakeradio.com/cc-common/bformmail.cgi

and told them:

Fleet Week and the Blue Angels are a giant ad for militarism.  Many 
of us in San Francisco, of all places, hold hope that people can, 
eventually, learn to deal with their differences in a more 
enlightened way than warfare.  Humans should seek the capacity to 
move past "survival of the fittest", "might makes right", and other 
"stinkin' thinkin'.

But, first, we need to stop glorifying war, especially to our young.

Daly's legislation is well-meaning, but, if anything, it does not go 
far enough.

Blue Angels are all the things Daly says they are, and more.  When 
some of us see them, together with the whole Fleet Week pageantry, we 
are reminded of the newsreel scenes from earlier days of 
swastika-laden tanks or nuclear missiles with hammer and sickles 
streaming along before the review stand, and can only hang our head 
at what we have become.

Don Eichelberger

At 01:58 PM 7/31/2007, Richard A. Knee wrote:
>A friend sent me the following:
>
>------- Forwarded message -------
>To: rak0408 at earthlink.net
>Subject: Blue Angels
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:31:31 -0700
>
>Rick-Yesterday on KQKE's "Progressive News Hour," just before 6 p.m., I
>heard a part of a vicious attack on Chris Daly for proposing to stop the
>Blue Angels' buzzing of SF. Not entirely sure who the speaker was, as I
>tuned in partway through, but I'm guessing it was John Scott, who hosts
>the show. He basically accused Daly of being unpatriotic, of attacking
>our troops and our military, and of implying that the city doesn't need
>or want the protection of the U.S. military. Also said Daly's assertions
>that he was concerned about noise and safety were pretexts to cover his
>anti-military position. The speaker, whoever he was, said he was antiwar
>but that Daly and his proposal were over the edge or off the charts.
>Sounds like they might need a little educating.