Seaver Response To Behnke: Noise the opposite
of freedom
August 26, 2002
Note: Jody Behnke's comments are in bold
Usually I can't get through the day without hearing something or reading
something that takes grand strokes towards idiocy. Today was no different
after reading Mr. Seavers commentary about the noise at Airventure.
Freedom is something I take quite seriously.
So do I.
When I read of you making light of someone else's observation that this noise is actually the sound of freedom, I felt it incumbent upon me to remind you to think about and cherish your freedom.
Good grief. In the first place, I doubt you'll find anyone in the world who is any more concerned about freedom than I. However, that noise is not freedom, in fact it is the very opposite. I perhaps need to remind you that your rights end where my nose begins - or in this case, where my ears begin.
I have done things for my country and the sake of "your" freedom
Hold it right there. You've never done anything for "my" freedom.
that would probably make a pretty good book or movie. How dare you make light of freedom!!
I have never made light of freedom -- ever. What I was talking about was Esslinger's idea that people have the freedom to make whatever noise they want -- they don't. If they do, then I guess I should have the freedom to sling lead in their direction, eh?
16 years ago I was putting my life on the line so you could sleep safely at night, while I helped keep our country's enemy's at bay.
Geez, what utter bullshit! If you have some delusion you were fighting for the American people, you need to get educated and wake up. You were fighting for Big Oil -- Standard, Exxon, Enron, and all the rest -- and for the military/industrial complex, the prison/industrial complex, and yes, for the Bush family political (and financial) fortunes. Nothing you (or anyone else) did there benefited my and mine one iota. In fact, what you did there hurt me greatly -- because a big chunk of my paycheck was stolen by the criminal gang running this country to pay for your fun and games.
I didn't want glory. I didn't want medals. I wanted to keep my country safe and free. Countless men and women have made tremendous sacrifices and will continue to make these sacrifices to ensure your freedom.
More total bullshit. Back in WWII (and my father was a disabled vet from there)
we fought a war with fairly good reason, although there's one heck of a lot
of debatable stuff about that too -- but nothing since then has been of even
the slightest benefit to the Amerikan people, it's all been to line the pockets
of the fatcats, feed the warped egos of the military types, and keep politicians
in power.
The current excursion into Afghanistan is nothing more than the CIA and the
US military regaining their foothold in the world heroin trade that they lost
when they were booted out of Vietnam. It has nothing to do with my freedom --
and, in fact, has a whole lot to do with the horrible and incredible LOSS of
freedom we see now in this country. And if that evil little retard in the Whitehouse
has his way, we will soon be in an even bigger military boondoggle to make General
Motors and BigOil richer and richer and steal even more money from the working
people of Amerika.
Oh yes, it's all about the "War on Some Terrorism", right? Let's
not forget that -- and let's not forget that the "terrorism" we see
here now is a direct result of US foreign policy for decades, including the
Desert Storm. Chickens come home to roost, the US is nothing but a fascist terror
state itself, and has killed and maimed countless thousands of innocent civilians
the world over for the last 50 years. People around the world hate us, not because
we're rich, but because the US has truly become the Evil Empire, the Great Satan.
Or at least the criminal gang that runs our country is.
The "War on Some Terror" will be about the same as the "War on Some Drugs" -- it will line the pockets of the fatcat military/industrial complex and the prison/police/industrial complex, not to mention the bank accounts of a lot of politicians -- and will destroy the lives of countless people here and around the world.
I guess I really don't understand people like you.
That's right, and if you were deluded enough to serve in the US military, you probably never, ever will.
You probably think everyone to the "right" of Lenin or Mao is an extremist.
Oh yes, here we go -- standard knee-jerk fascist response. I must be a Commie.
Hoboy! Hey, guess what? I've never, ever even voted for a Democrat in my life.
I despise socialism -- not because I have no concern for the poor, but because
it requires one helluva' lot of government to make it function. I voted for
Reagan twice -- before I woke up. I couldn't bring myself to vote for Bush Sr.,
however, and started voting Libertarian. Now, however, I vote for Nader and
the Green Party, which people like you who are stuck in the last centurys concepts
of political right and left probably consider left-wing. It's not -- the environment
has no right or left.
But let's get one thing straight -- it doesn't really matter who you vote for
anymore, not in the US. We have no semblance of Constitutional government in
this country any longer, not since the criminal scum in the Supreme Court sold
out and put that evil little retard in the Whitehouse (and goddess forbid we
would have had that pathological liar Gore as president either) and they passed
the USA-UnPatriotic Act.
We now live in a police state, pure and simple. Run by a criminal enterprise from the very top down to the very bottom -- the cop on the beat. As we can plainly see here in Oshkosh.
As for the EAA Airventure, I love it. I can't get enough of it. If you can't see what an asset this is to your community, you need to take an economics course. Maybe just take one in common sense, it can't hurt.
Actually I do know a fair amount about economics. That's why I asked the question in the first place. We need an accounting, a full and complete accounting, fully exploring the costs and benefits of all sorts of things like EAA, the actual attendance figures, the costs to the city, the costs to us as property owners, the costs in peace of mind, etc. But the bottom line is this: No one, EAA or anyone else, has the right to invade the peace and quietude of my home with their noise for their profit.
Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com