San Francisco Petition to Ban Navy Fleet Week, Blue Angels, etc.

Yesterday I wrote about the multiple personalities of the "Liberal." Less than 24 hours later we have a prime example of two personalities emerging in the same news item. Ann Garrison, hereinafter "Ms. Moonbat" wants to place a petition on the San Francisco ballot to ban Fleet Week and the Blue Angels. Why? Because, according to her, the sole reason for the Navy to be there is to "recruit our struggling immigrant and inner city youth, and anyone else whom these displays of enormous lethal force might inspire to military enthusiasm, into the U.S. Armed Services, to fight imperial wars for the natural resources of poor nations mischaracterized as 'rogue states' because they have abundant natural resources, including uranium, but no nuclear weapons."

Hmmm. I wonder how many struggling immigrants and inner city youth show up each year to watch and end up being shanghaied? I remember in February 1975 a Navy recruiter bought me a beer at Baker's Tavern in North East, MD and the next thing I knew it was 2:30 am at Recruit Training Center Great Lakes, and some idiot was banging on the side of a galvanized trash can yelling "drop your c**ks and grab your socks, reveille." I didn't know those types of things still happened.

And, I wasn't aware that a country had to have abundant natural resources to qualify as a rogue state. Kazakhstan and Canada - you are on notice. You too Sweden. It's your own fault for claiming Abba as a national resource.

According to Ms. Moonbat, taxes should be diverted instead "to sane and constructive activity like education, environmental remediation, and other positive forms of collective self-care." Kumbaya, baby. Kumbaya. Focusing on collective self-care (whatever that is) will form an impenetrable shield against the next terrorist attack. Why didn't I think of that?

But, I ask, what is the long term goal in banning Fleet Week? To promote truly renewable energy infrastructure and "end the current horrid round of wars for dirty energy fuels, and circumvent the next resource war, for water, which will surely come [after] the dirty energy wars, which so damage and deplete the world's water resources. . ." Yes, now that you put it that way, it all makes sense.

Idiot. Check out the news report. http://www.ktvu.com/video/15590046/index.html

Make Fleet Week and Blue Angels Recruitment Unwelcome in San
Francisco

by Ann Garrison

Tuesday Mar 11th, 2008
12:04 PM

I just filed paper with the San Francisco Department of Elections, so as to begin collecting signatures to put an initiative on the November ballot, in San Francisco, that would make Fleet Week and the Blue Angels Air Show, etc., which are an all forces military recruitment drive, unwelcome in and around the City and County of San Francisco. A signature gathering drive will begin tonight at the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign headquarters, 1260 Mission, between 7th and 8th, at 7:00
P.M.

Declaration of Policy: The voters of San Francisco declare the Blue Angels Air Shows and all other military demonstration shows, including the Canadian SnowBirds and the U.S. Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team, unwelcome in and around the City and County of San Francisco. These military demonstration teams come here every year to recruit our struggling immigrant and inner city youth, and anyone else whom these displays of enormous lethal force might inspire to military enthusiasm, into the U.S. Armed Services, to fight imperial wars for the natural resources of poor nations mischaracterized as "rogue states" because they have abundant natural resources, including uranium, but no nuclear weapons. These resource wars that the military demonstration shows recruit for are currently misharacterized as the "Global War on Terrorism." The voters of San Francisco declare that our hard-earned federal and municipal taxes, and the energies of all our young people, shall be devoted, instead, to sane and constructive activity like education, environmental remediation, and other positive forms of collective self-care. The voters of San Francisco also declare that our taxes and the energies of our youth should circumvent the need for these annual military recruitment demonstrations of enormously lethal force by building a truly renewable energy infrastructure---solar, tidal, and wind. Truly renewable clean energy infrastructure will end the current horrid round of wars for dirty energy fuels, and circumvent the next resource war, for water, which will surely come the dirty energy wars, which so damage and deplete the world's water resources, continue.
----Ann Garrison