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Day 3, US Navy Terrorizes SF; Out of the Closet on Polk Attacks Free Speech for Peaceniks

by $
From 2:30 to 4 p.m., 10/7/06 the Navy's Blue Death flew so low over San Francisco, we could see the yellow writing, "US Navy" on the bottom of the now all blue planes with the naked eye, clearly demonstrating that they were too low, making conversation stopping, deafening noise, while at the same time Out of the Closet on Polk & California, 415.771.1503 told a peacenik that the sidewalk is private property and the police would be called if the peacenik protested the Navy's Blue Death.
From 2:30 to 4 p.m., 10/7/06, the Navy's Blue Death flew so low over San Francisco, we could see the yellow writing, "US Navy" on the bottom of the now all blue planes with the naked eye, clearly demonstrating that they were too low, making conversation stopping, deafening noise, while at the same time Out of the Closet on Polk & California, 415.771.1503 told a peacenik that the sidewalk is private property and the police would be called if the peacenik protested the Navy's Blue Death.

If you cannot join in the protests, the least you can do is call Out of the Closet Thrift Store, selling used clothing at 1498 Polk at California, 415.771.1503, and tell the young man (around 30) who had the unmitigated gall to tell a peacenik protesting this outrageous terrorism by the world's only worldwide terrorist organization, the US military, that the sidewalk was private property, which is a lie, and that therefore the peacenik had no First Amendment rights to stand there and point out the horrors of war as these terrorists flew illegally overhead wasting tax dollars and oil, glorifying war and making horrific noise. It is hard to believe that such a thing could happen anywhere in San Francisco, much less on Polk Street, but it did, and that must never happen again. The young man who claimed to be the proprietor and acted like he was calling the police on his cellphone (the police never came), was smoking a cigarette, had a receding hairline and happened to be African-American. It makes no difference as to color, age or anything else; they are either pro-war or pro-peace, and this anti-First Amendment capitalist was clearly pro-war. Otherwise, he would never have said anything. It is unconscionable that a peacenik in San Francisco cannot protest war on the sidewalks of San Francisco.

The Navy's Blue Death flew singly and in screaming four, five and six formation in and from every direction, including over St. Francis Hospital, Kaiser Hospital, Mt. Zion Hospital, Moffitt Hospital and San Francisco General Hospital, among others.

It was the old everywhere who were the most vociferous in their anger at this outrage, and IT IS THE OLD WHO VOTE. One old man who looked like a retired banker told me WE NEED A REVOLUTION, and of course he is right. IT IS ELECTION TIME, and this outrage was brought to us by the warmongering local Democrat-Republican parties. If you want peace, you have to vote for a peace party, either the Peace & Freedom Party or the Green Party.

We can do a lot of things. FROM NOW ON, ALL OF US CAN TELL THE YOUNG PEOPLE TO NEVER JOIN THE MILITARY. As we know, it takes a village to raise a child, and thus, they are all our children. Whenever we see a teenager or a person in their 20s, tell them, NEVER JOIN THE MILITARY. They are getting it from their Vietnam War era parents, but too many do not listen. They need to hear it from all of us everywhere as no war can be fought without people. This is one form of counter-recruitment we can all do daily.

This whole Columbus Genocide Weekend is a military recruiting weekend, as that is the primary purpose of the Navy's Blue Death deadly show and Fleet Week. WE NEED COUNTER RECRUITMENT FOR THE NEXT 3 DAYS AT FISHERMAN'S WHARF, SAN FRANCISCO as whole families come from all over the Bay Area for this military recruiting show. Today, Sunday, 10/8, Monday, 10/9 (a holiday for federal and state workers and public school children), and Tuesday, 10/10, the Navy ships have open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., all at Fisherman's Wharf. Counter Recruitment consists of telling all young people under age 30, male and female, to never join the military. For college education, one can go to City College for the first 2 years and transfer to San Francisco State University for the last 2 years while living at home and working part time. Similar city/county colleges exist throughout California, and in the 9 counties of the San Francisco Bay Area, we have San Francisco State, Hayward State, Sonoma State and San Jose State University in the immediate Bay Area as well as UC Berkeley, all commuting distance from most of the Bay Area. UC Santa Cruz is in the San Jose area of commuting. We taxpayers pay for these schools and we should encourage the workingclass to attend them. It does not cost $20,000 or $40,000 to go to these fully accredited colleges, the mercenary payoff the military is dangling to possible recruits, and that money is rarely given to anyone, if they should survive the military and be in good enough shape to go to school, all highly unlikely. Joining the military means joining the illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan (and the invasions of both were illegal and perpetrated to steal the oil from Iraq and from the Caspian Sea, near Afghanistan), inhaling deadly American depleted uranium used to murder the Iraqi people, thereby guaranteeing a very short future for the American soldiers, and being shot at daily, risking serious injury or death. For women, the US military also means rape and vicious sexual harassment. A soldier by definition all around the world is a paid professional killer; that is why you are taught to use a gun in the military. The jobs you have in the military rarely transfer to serious employment in civilian life. TELL THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ANY CIVILIAN JOB (not including the paramilitary police and prison guards) IS MORE HONORABLE THAN THE MILITARY, and much safer. There is nothing wrong at all with working as a dishwasher, cook, janitor, bus driver, retail clerk or the like, and if the wages and working conditions are not suitable, organize a labor union. What we need is a labor movement to get rid of the whole private profit system that is the cause of all wars. VETERANS FOR PEACE, PEACE MARCHERS OF 10/5/06 AND ALL OTHER PEACENIKS: WE NEED COUNTER RECRUITMENT AT FISHERMAN'S WHARF THIS WEEKEND AND MONDAY AND TUESDAY, 10/9 AND 10/10. Iraq Veterans Against War has a good Counter Recruitment page at:http://www.ivaw.org/projects
Veterans for Peace is at http://www.veteransforpeace.org/

EVERYONE CAN CALL THE BOARD OF SUPEVISORS AS THESE MURDERERS DISTURB OUR PEACE AND QUIET, ALL TO TERRORIZE US AND PROMOTE WAR. As they fly over your home, open your windows, call the supervisors and leave a voice mail message. Remind them that this is the noise you hear inside your home, and you should not hear any airplane noise inside your home at all. It does not matter where you live as all 11 decide on San Francisco's budget and decide on policies such as allowing the Blue Death and Fleet Week to exist. Both should be abolished as they are here to promote war. The supervisors are listed at:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_index.asp?id=7271
and here:

Michela Alioto-Pier
District 2
(415) 554-7752
Michela.Alioto-Pier [at] sfgov.org

Tom Ammiano
District 9
(415) 554-5144
Tom.Ammiano [at] sfgov.org

Chris Daly
District 6
(415) 554-7970
Chris.Daly [at] sfgov.org

Bevan Dufty
District 8
(415) 554-6968
Bevan.Dufty [at] sfgov.org

Sean Elsbernd
District 7
(415) 554-6516
Sean.Elsbernd [at] sfgov.org

Fiona Ma
District 4
(415) 554-7460
Fiona.Ma [at] sfgov.org

Sophie Maxwell
District 10
(415) 554-7670
Sophie.Maxwell [at] sfgov.org

Jake McGoldrick
District 1
(415) 554-7410
Jake.McGoldrick [at] sfgov.org

Ross Mirkarimi
District 5
(415) 554-7630
Ross.Mirkarimi [at] sfgov.org

Aaron Peskin - Board President
District 3
(415) 554-7450
Aaron.Peskin [at] sfgov.org

Gerardo Sandoval
District 11
(415) 554-6975
Gerardo.Sandoval [at] sfgov.org

You can remind them that the Board of Supervisors received thousands of signatures on public sentiment petitions submitted about 8 years ago to the Board members of that time. All educated people under age 40 and everyone over age 40 staunchly opposes the Navy's Blue Death flights, which is to say the overwhelmingly majority of voters of San Francisco oppose these horrifying Blue Death flights over San Francisco and we want them ended immediately. The ships for the military's promotional show come from San Diego and Hawaii, at taxpayer expense, as there is no Navy base in the area anymore, thanks to our peace movement.

The military does not exist to entertain anyone. These death flights are to glorify war and to terrorize human beings.

This military, welcomed by the San Francisco Democratic Party which has sat entrenched with the support of the equally despicable Republican Party, at San Francisco City Hall, since about 1960, is the same military that perpetrated the 9/11 Inside Job, under the direction of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Giuliani, so as to make possible war and fascism to guarantee maximization of profits of the capitalist class, the primary goal and law of capitalism.

No air defense means the 9/11/01 Reichstag Fire was an inside job. 9 of the so-called hijackers were alive on 9/12/01. There were no hijackers on those planes; the planes were on automatic pilot guided by the US Air Force. There were 4 war games taking place at the same time, making it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake, and this was deliberate. The Twin Towers and Building 7, which was not hit by a plane, were brought down by demolition explosives and bombs, in a few seconds, in their own footprint, in small enough pieces to be carted away immediately, thus removing the evidence, a crime by definition. Building 7 was essentially a military building, housing military offices, the CIA, the Security & Exchange Commission (then investigating Enron), Giuliani's bunker, and much more. The security at the World Trade Center was under the management of George Bush's brother, Marvin Bush, and his cousin, Wirt Walker III, and they conducted by evacuation drills before 9/11/01, including the weekend before, which is when the demolition devices were set. Thermate was used, and that substance come from the military. Cheney coordinated the whole show from his White House bunker with Giuliani, who sat in his bunker in Building 7, until he evacuated it in time because he knew it would be demolished. The Pentagon was hit by a US missile and bombs inside on a side that was under construction and which housed audit clerks who could expose the trillion dollar till-tapping going on at the Pentagon, while Rumfeld sat in his office at the Pentagon. Flight 93 ended at the Cleveland airport; some other plane was shot down by the US military over Pennsylvania. Bush sat in his brother's Florida fiefdom reading a goat story to school children after stating he saw the first plane crash on closed circuit TV. He was finally removed after the second plane crash, followed the well-known, planned route and then rode on Air Force 1 with no military escort, all because he knew it was all staged. Republican Condolezza Rice, then a national security advisor, stated on CNN on May 17, 2002, that she warned then mayor of San Francisco Democrat Willie Brown to stay off airplanes 8 hours before he was to board one. Rice is better known as Ms. Standard Oil and these wars that are being perpetrated with the excuse of the 9/11 Inside Job are blood for oil wars. The greatest profits are in munitions, oil and all other war profiteering.

To learn more about the US government's and US military's terrorism, see the excellent DVD online at: http://www.loosechange911.com/
and immediately read all of the following books:
1. Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert
2. The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions & Distortions by David Griffin
3. The New Pearl Harbor by David Griffin
4. Painful Questions by Eric Hufschmid
5. The Iron Triangle (on Carlyle Group) by Dan Briody
6. 9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions by Rowland Morgan & Ian Henshall
7. Waking Up From Our Nightmare by Don Paul and Jim Hoffman
8. 9/11 Facing Our Fascist State by Don Paul
9. 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Tarpley
10. Body of Secrets by James Bamford
11. The War on Truth by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
12. The Terror Conspiracy by Jim Marrs
13. Towers of Deception by Barrie Zwicker
14. 9/11 and American Empire edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott
15. Flight 93 Revealed by Rowland Morgan
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Many thanks to outstanding civil rights attorney, Catherine Campbell, for her timely legal confirmation of our right to free speech on public sidewalks. The peacenik above was not blocking any doorway or anyone's access to the sidewalk. One person standing on the sidewalk verbally pointing out the travesties of the war machine cannot harm anyone. So, now, here is the legal opinion of the Fresno City Attorney as cited at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/07/18318869.php
"The Courts have consistently given primacy of protection to speech on public sidewalks. Under In re Lane (1969) 71 Cal.2d 872, pursuant to the First Amendment, a person has the right 'unquestionably under the free speech guarantiees to distribute handbills on a public sidewalk especially in front of a public forum, but also on the privately owned sidewalk in front of a business.' See also Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center (1979) 23 Cal. 3d 899, and NLRB v. Calkins (9th Cir. 1999) 187 F.3d 1080."
"However, First Amendment activities can be prohibited in (1) areas normally subject to congestion, such as ticket windows and turnstiles and (2) persons can be excluded entirely from areas where their presence would threaten personal danger or block the flow of passenger or carrier traffic, such as doorways and loading areas."
"Please note that designating a free expression zone at a public facility has been found to be unconstitutional."
by Unnamed
The length of your over-reaching and narrow-minded rant leads me to believe the shop worker wanted you to leave because you were likely screaming and harrassing passersby in front of his store, not because he wanted to suppress your right to free speech.

"One person standing on the sidewalk verbally pointing out the travesties of the war machine cannot harm anyone."

Keyword: "verbally" ...Not hard to read between the lines on this one, eh? Talk about unwanted noise.
by Travis
Whomever wrote this article is extremely ignorant. The military doesn't go and do fleet week, or have the Blue Angels fly overhead unless requested to by some other local government. You people who are protesting and calling this a rcruitment gig are out of your mind. This display is to show the general public the Navy's warships and aircraft and educate them about more of what we do instead of putting Warheads on Forehads. After reading this article, maybe the military should aim their weapons a different direction, twords you! The reasson you all have this right to free speech is because we have had this military to defend democracy and our constitution which you all take for granted. Maybe we should all take aim at you, and see where you stand with your protest of the military then.
by Bob T Guy
You claim the Blues were flying "illegally overhead wasting tax dollars and oil". What laws were broken? Can you cite specifics? Did not the organizers of Fleet Week attain the proper permits? Are you able to back up your claim with the factual data that would make a case in court?
This claim and its accompanying depth of so - called evidence is a fascinating one. The man who "stole the election" is an idiot according to many of the same sources who buy into this conspiracy. Also, this administration is patently full of leaks as witnessed by the plethora of classified information which has shown up in the media. So how did an idiot surrounded by backbiting gossipers ever successfully plan and pull off such a fantastic event?

This taken into account, consider that the sheer number of people who would have to be involved in the planning, execution, and cover up of the 911 conspiracy is so monumentally huge, that the chances of having gone this long without a single whistle blower make it to the front pages of ANY newspaper or merit mention on ANY network news program, not even CNN or Al Jazeera, is proof that it is a false concept.

As a matter of fact, the belief in the 911 conspiracy is proof of concept, in that if you believe it, you are a moron.

Bob
by peppy
"This taken into account, consider that the sheer number of people who would have to be involved in the planning, execution, and cover up of the 911 conspiracy is so monumentally huge, that the chances of having gone this long without a single whistle blower make it to the front pages of ANY newspaper or merit mention on ANY network news program, not even CNN or Al Jazeera, is proof that it is a false concept.

As a matter of fact, the belief in the 911 conspiracy is proof of concept, in that if you believe it, you are a moron. "

Especially considering that governement couldn't manage to keep a blowjob and a robbery secret.
by "cHris"
To Um...
I doubt that the author of the article was the sidewalk peacenik. Did you read the article? Idiot!

To Travis...
How dare you call someone ignorant and revert to grade school reasoning! Not once did the author ever resort to threats, but rather focused on peaceful options. AND... everyone understands that the military has IN THE PAST defended our freedom of speech, but that same freedom IS AT RISK! People ARE being arrested for speaking out against the government. Ever heard of the Patriot Act? Yes, so please take "aim" and take the final step towards becoming a full fledged military state... Idiot!!

To Bob...
Even if something is legal, it does not necessarily make it any less frightening or simply even annoying. Resorting to lawyer-ese caused you to miss the intent of the article... if you don't like something, don't just sit there, do something! Act within the bounds of the law and do what you can to change the law. If the law is that military displays of air superiority must be X number of meters off the ground, and it continues to cause a problem, then petition local and state governments, and garner the support of the community to effect a change in the law. Idiot!

To Peppy...
You restated Bob, and provided nothing more than a joke. It made me laugh, but... I still have to call you an idiot since that's the goal here today.

To $...
Good job! Thanks for following up with the legal opinion. Research is good. But... I am going to have to slap down the idiot tag on you as well for mixing apples and oranges. Although I appreciate the lovely conspiracy theory at the end of the article, it probably should have been left out since it actually detracts somewhat from your immediate goals of community involvement with respect to low flying jets and military recruitment.

To ALL...
I just wanted to share with you all a quick blurb from the Global Research website (http://www.globalresearch.ca) about US air superiority...

"In recent joint Indo-American air force exercises, where the Indian Air Force was equipped with modern Russian-made Su-30 fighters, the Indian Air Force out-maneuvered American-made F-15 planes in a majority of their engagements, prompting US Air Force General Hal Homburg to admit that Russian technology in Indian hands has given the US Air Force a ‘wake-up call.’ "

I'm an idiot too by the way. I wrote this on my work computer during working hours, plus I'm a middle-aged, privileged, white male, so don't listen to anything I have to say,
"cHris"
by Tony
The author's stunning ignorance of the reality of the US military is simply remarkable. Although there are so many separate ridiculous assertions to attack, I am simply amazed at the part about military jobs not transfering to civilian life. Wow. I was a cryptologist/intel analyst and boy, I for the life of me cannot imagine there would be any civilian entity that would want to hire someone with those skills. Nope. Nothing comes to mind. Wait ... mm, ... still nope. Boy too bad its the same case with say, mechanics, admin staff, postal clerks, or supervisors for that matter. Too bad all the enlisted (not to mention ALL officers) personnel above E-6 don't have any management training. Yeah darn all those Fortune 500 companies who DON'T have former servicemembers in their employ. Too bad there aren't any civilian defense system manufacturers/researchers out there. I could go on, but swear to God my time is more valuable. You (the author) are an uneducated, rambling, military-bashing screwball. Please do us a favor. Sell your computer for weed money and go jerk your buddy off in the Starbucks bathroom near Haight and Ashbury. Your ignorant comments simply serve to clog servers and anger those of us who do serve or at least possess a shred of common sense.
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