A friend sent me the link to an article about the Blue Angels, a glorified team of flyboys representing the United States Navy.
http://www.examiner.com/...
The writer of the article claims that the Blue Angels represent the Sound Freedom. Several readers including myself set about telling what the Blue Angels really represent. The screams of righteous indignation continue.
This is what a poster with the screen name "Baloney" had to say:
baloney says:
My god. What a load of horse manure. The "sound of freedom," what a laugh. It is the sound of suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the last sound some people hear on earth. Think about it. The Blue Angels also regularly break the safe decibel level (i.e. they cause hearing damage) in the city, which is or should be illegal. Plus they scare the bejesus out of animals and young children. Whoever these "sponsors" are who pay for this event, why don't they use their (clearly copious) amounts of cash on, oh, making sure children's health care stays affordable in Washington State, or um, building safe housing for low-income citizens, or ah, helping the Seattle Schools maintain their facilities and hire more teachers...?
Just wonderin'. Long Live America.
And my response:
Baloney is absolutely correct. The Blue Angels, the Thunder Birds (Air Force)& any other flyboy operations that may be around are a horrible waste of money at best & represent 'murder' machines at their worst.
False advertising & lies is what they are. I wonder how many of the functionally illiterate kids who are now fighting in Afghanistan fell for this line of BS, thinking that they might become a Blue Angel. As I type this as one of the cable networks is showing a small child, age 6 who was horribly burned in Iraq by whatever was dropped on him by a plane that was probably very much like the ones flown by the Blue Angels. He's supposed to be one of the lucky ones. Yeah right! He's going to be stared at the rest of his life, will be taunted for the hideous scars that cover his entire body. Lucky? Surely yee jest?! What about the suffering he will endure for the rest of his life?
Get real people. Every war that we have been involved in since WW11 has been based on lies.
Millions of people have been murdered in our names for the lies of our politicians, the military industrial complex, & the old war lords who encourage all the insanity. Most of the murdering has been done from the skies by planes like those flown the Blue Angels.
Baloney was being kind when he/she made her comments. Get your heads out of the clouds & look at the damage being done to the world, including our own country by propaganda machines like the Blue Angels. Indeed our hearing is being destroyed but we are also blind to what the Blue Angels really represent. The money wasted on these glorious flyboys could create thousands of jobs.
And speaking of jobs, if war is so grand why aren't these flyboys in Afghanistan helping to end that atrocity?