Posted on 06/11/2016 8:14:59 AM PDT by darkwing104
After the deadly crash of a Navy Blue Angel F-18 last week in Tennessee killing USMC Capt. Jeff Kuss, a San Francisco lawmaker has renewed a call to ban the group from flying over the city's populated areas. Also, John Avalos, a member of the city's board of supervisors, has called for the board to revive an initiative banning the Angels from flying over populated areas of the city.
The Blue Angels fly over San Francisco as part of Fleet Week, an annual outreach event that attracts over a million people every year. This year the event will be held between the 3rd and 10th of October. Similar events are held in other cities, including New York.
City Supervisor Avalos told The San Francisco Chronicle: "It's about them crashing and hitting a building – a place where people live." He also stated: "It's about the terror that they cause in people when they strafe neighborhoods. That's something I hear about all the time when Blue Angels fly overhead." The elected official obviously doesn’t know what “strafe” means. He also doesn’t realize that the Blue Angels F-18s are unarmed when they are performing.
Avalos insists that the jets are a threat to safety. Accidents happen and they are rare. Maybe Mr. Avalos should take a look at the San Francisco International Airport, where a 747 can do more damage that an Airshow F-18. Odds are that airshow fans will face greater danger driving to the show than being hit or strafed by a Blue Angel F-18.
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Move Fleet Week to another, more appreciative, city.
Yeh, last time he said he didn’t want them strafing >his< city.
...maybe they should ban this whole glorification of war and death machines and military stuff as too frightening for the gentle citizens of San Francisco. End fleet week! Ban all visible demonstrations, displays, exhibits, and activities on the part of any military branch or organization! Stop seducing our children into the ways of mass murder for the profit of our alien lizard overlords!
PEACE! TOTAL PEACE, NOW!!
(for the humor-challenged, this was a satire...
Yes, I know... Getting harder every day to tell
which is satire and which is psychotic reality...)
Correct, they have been after the Angels since the mid 80’s when Finestein was enraged because the Angels buzzed the commie consulate on Green Street.
I was in a building at 525 Market and it was great watching them zoom by the 29th floor at probably 250kts.
Far cry from WWII when my uncle was stationed at Treasure Island for a few weeks. His memories of that time and how the Navy was appreciated then verses how they are despised by the sh..h.le city now are startling.
This is a continuation of the same glop oozed by former columnist herb caen, who regularly complained of the sound of warfare when the Angels flew over his city.
But, by all means, keep the police heavily armed, especially those who bodyguard important people like avalos.
This measure is only treating the symptom, not the cause. If, instead, the person in question could, instead, ban enemy military invasions and attacks, then there would be no need for the US military at all, and the need to specifically ban the Blue Angels would no longer exist.
Of course, the real question is, can the person figure out why, exactly, it is that he can’t ban enemy military invasions and attacks?
1. attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft.
"military aircraft strafed the village"
synonyms: bomb, shell, bombard, fire on, machine-gun, rake with gunfire, enfilade; archaicfusillade
"enemy aircraft strafed our carriers"
Wondering whether the Blue Angels or Mr. Avalos himself are the bigger threat to the city?
Maybe Mr. Avalos should find one of those ‘safe rooms’ for himself....if something makes a Liberal uncomfortable, they want it banned ASAP! Mr. Avalos might be using the Blue Angles as cover for his affair.....nah...he really is a typical far leftist, insane.
Not only that but anything associated with the military must be removed. They’ll get the message when the money leaves.
I was involved in the shutdown of both McClellan AFB and Mather AFB in Sacramento, just over the hill to the east of Oakland. I have seen the withering away of Rancho Cordova in the south that was feeding off Mather and I’m told there is a problem with the economy in north Sacramento near McClellan.
If the navy takes offence to this action and treats it as the insult it is, and they pull out, they will finish taking the leading employer in the city out of the works.
The military base closures that swept the country in the 1990s, despite the promise of peacetime dividends, were gigantic blows to California, and to the Bay Area in particular. The Alameda Air Naval Station, which closed in 1997, employed some 18,200 people, and the Oakland Army Base, decommissioned two years later, employed 7,000. Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, with its 10,300 workers, was also closed; as was the Oakland Naval Supply Center, with 3,800 jobs; and Treasure Island Naval Air Station in San Francisco, with 3,300 workers.
The base closures throughout the ’90s—which also included San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard, the Concord Naval Weapons Station, and Oakland’s Oak Knoll Naval Medical Hospital—wiped away more than 100,000 jobs and billions of dollars worth of payroll revenue and defense contracts from the Bay Area. If they finish the job, the Bay area economy will finish ending up like the third world country they are currently goin into.
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No doubt... Or just close all Naval facilities in and around the city.
Wonder what he’d say if Obama changes them to the Rainbow Angels?
Would safety still be a concern if Obama insisted on at least one women, one gay, and one trans-gender pilot and lowered the qualifications to make it happen? Or would the lawmaker go out of the way to get a photo-op with them before/after the show? May also need an illegal Mexican pilot to fully represent the sanctuary city’s diversity. (They do/did have a female pilot but that doesn’t change the point about this idiot’s probable priorities)
What is especially disgusting about their concern over the safety of nearby communities is their complete lack of concern of violence by illegals against residents of San Francisco (e.g., Kate Steinle). The real story here in my opinion is they just don’t like the military.
Historically, 10% of all Blue Angels have died in crashes. That is way too many for me to feel OK about viewing their air shows as a form of entertainment. Navy pilots are too valuable to waste this way.
Have the Bureau of Reclamation divert their water for bait fish.
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