"...too militaristically British..."
Posted on 09/16/2007 4:28:33 AM PDT by gridlock
THE Red Arrows have been banned from performing at the 2012 London Olympics as they are too BRITISH.
Barmy organisers claim the popular RAF display team’s military background “might offend other nations”.
The decision has left pilots, who were set to perform their best-ever display at the opening ceremony, in a state of outrage.
One said yesterday: “We have been simply blown away by this decision.
“For years we have talked about performing a display at the Olympic Games and how magnificent it would be.
“It never crossed our mind we would be banned from the event.”
The Arrows, officially named the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, have flown at 4,000 festivals worldwide. But the Department of Culture, Media and Sport ruled last week that the jets were “unsuitable” and “not in keeping with the event as they were too militaristically British”.
The government department is running the event alongside organising committee chairman Lord Sebastian Coe. An insider also suggested the Arrows had ALREADY performed at the Olympics — by doing a fly-past when London won the initial bid.
But the pilot added: “The Red Arrows did indeed perform a fly-past. But that was 2005 and was hurriedly organised.
“We really wanted to put on a world-class display for 2012 — something incredible and never seen before. It would be a showcase of everything that is great about Britain.
“The Red Arrows are as British as the Queen and London buses.
“They’re not an expression of our military power — they’re a source of national pride. But Olympic bosses have said we might offend foreigners. It’s madness.” Yesterday the Department for Culture, Media and Sport appeared to leave room for a U-turn.
A spokesman said: “No decision has yet been made.
“We haven’t made any final arrangements for the opening ceremony yet.”
Why does anybody support this tripe?
The Olympics are a sick joke. The RAF’s finest isn’t good enough for them. Real Brits ought to boycott the event in protest.
Whence England?
Might offend other nations? The British authorities are cowards and pussies. No wonder the islamo nut jobs are taking over the U.K.
Everybody should. Nothing good can come from the Olympics.
Either Tyrants use the games to whitewash their evil and present their twisted vision of a Master Race (Berlin 1936, Peking 2008), or Western Democracies display our weakness and grant aid and comfort to our enemies to avoid giving offense.
Frankly, I had not considered that the entire nation of Britan owes it’s very existance to the RAF. But for those “gallant few”, they would all be speaking German.
Us, too, probably.
> Might offend other nations? The British authorities are cowards and pussies. No wonder the islamo nut jobs are taking over the U.K.
Most of the good stock fought and died in WW-I and WW-II. Most of the remaining good stock emigrated. The remaining good stock were too old to move, or too few in number to make their presence felt. Then came the Winds of Change...
Very few of the good stock left, and getting fewer by the day.
That which remains are the dregs of what was once a mighty Empire.
It is no more.
"...too militaristically British..."
Maybe the olympic organizers would be happier with pilots wearing towels over their heads?
When you grant power to your enemies, your enemies use that power against you. How many times must this happen before we figure it out?
A good start. But the UN funds itself, now, after the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Yes. It is. The entirety of the English should have nothing to do with it. No RAF? Ok, no hotels, no suppliers, no venders, no ticket sales, no attendees, no nothing.
Yep. The Eagle Squadron (Americans flying for the R.A.F.) probably were, too. Not to mention the Poles, South Africans, Czechs, Canadians, and others who flew with the R.A.F. and stopped the Nazis at the Channel.
“Get rid of the Olympics. Defund and expel the criminally corrupt United Nations from U.S. soil.”
I second that motion. While we’re at it, wrap Hillarious Clinton, Dingy Harry, B. Hussein Obama, Swimmer K, Dianne Slimestein, Barbed Boxer, Nancy Pleurisy, Shiftless Kerry, Al Fat Gore, and John Mirtha up in the same package and drop them over Russia (with parachutes).
England, you are SO screwed
Where the hell do these idiots come from? Let's try again, here.
Barmy organisers claim the popular RAF display team’s military background “might offend other nations”. might offend a couple of hundred ultra-leftist barking moonbats.
It will be the nations undoing. Whence Avalon? Whence King Arthur, whose scions the fly boys were.
I detest the liberal moonbat pussies who now run Britain. A pox on all of them soonest.
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