10/10: The Navy's Blue Death Terrorizes SF

For the 20th year, fascist Fleet Week and its accompanying horror, the Navy's Blue Angels aka Blue Death have arrived in San Francisco for the Columbus Genocide weekend celebrations, October 10-12, 2002, reminding us of the horror and waste of the criminal military.

For 1.5 hours on Thursday, October 10, 2002, from noon to 1:30 p.m., the Blue Death swooped illegally low over heavily-populated San Francisco with their horrificly loud screaming engines, reminding us of the horrors of war and the waste of oil and our tax dollars that is the entire stinking military. They were so low and loud that we could not hear the person next to us talking and made eating lunch very difficult and nerve-wracking. The military does not exist to entertain anyone and this was certainly not entertaining. It was criminal, frightening and deadly. One wrong move and they are on the ground and dead, and a lot of people on the ground are dead. War is all about killing people and being killed to maximize profits of the munitions makers and other war profiteers.

This whole show has returned, after an absence in 2001, at the invitation of that good Democrat, the fascist election-frauding organized crime thug "mayor" Willie Brown, to promote business at Fisherman's Wharf, and of course, to promote war, which Democrat Willie Brown adores as it helps maximize the profits of his investments, which is all Willie Brown cares about.

The ships for Fleet Week come from San Diego and Hawaii at taxpayer expense as we have no Navy base here, thanks to our many peace demonstrations. It is long overdue that Fleet Week and the Blue Death flights be banned from the entire San Francisco Bay Area forever.

We can all use this deadly, criminal air show as an object lesson. When they scream their murderous death machines overhead and you are outside among lots of people, you can point to them and chant "That's why we're so poor; money for jobs, not for war." If you are home, you can open your windows and call any supervisor at City Hall and tell them or their answering machine that this is how it sounds inside your home. They have received thousands of signatures on petitions from San Francico residents demanding that the Blue Death and Fleet Week be banned from San Francisco. Their phone numbers and E-mail addresses can be found at:
http://www.sfgov.org/bdsupvrs/roster.htm

Those of you in the Peace Navy and other protest actions, please post your activities. This should be made part of all our peace actions this historic week. when we protest the pro-war votes of a criminal government, both Democrat and Republican, representing a bankrupt social order.