A verbis ad verbera
Posted on 07/07/2009 9:04:44 PM PDT by TaraP
An Idaho community had secured an Air Force flyover for its local festival every year for more than 40 years, organizers say, but this year, the Air Force turned the request down over the festival's religious focus.
The God and Country Family Festival in Nampa, Idaho, applied to the Pentagon for the flyover but was denied in an e-mail, board member Patti Syme told KTBV. Syme said the e-mail from a defense official informed her the Pentagon prohibited support of special interest groups.
"I called him immediately and just said, you know hey we've been doing this for 42 years, we've had flyovers, what is the problem?" Syme told KTBV. "And he said, well we have looked up your Web site and everything on your Web site seemed to focus on Christianity, ministry booths. And he said, in fact, ma'am it sounds like it focuses on Christianity. And he said, in fact, it would be great to go to, in fact, if I personally, could come I would, but we can't endorse such an endeavor, so they couldn't do the flyover."
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The Thunderbirds and Blue Angels are great recruiting tools. I don't think providing for our future security is a "waste of money." OTOH, the $72 million just sent to Zimbabwe (translate: to Robert Mugabe) most certainly is.
It's a matter of priorities.
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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it!
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Well, I do; from an economics and resource allocation perspective. But I appreciate your open-mindedness. Not everyone shares that.
Now THAT is Change!
Heh. Yep.
God save us from nation destroying morons.
We have become a collection of people that share geography but we are most certainly no longer a nation. The balkanization of the US is complete.
As was pointed out earlier, since AF pilots have to perform constant training missions anyway, a flyover could be one of them -- in part or in total. Further, it's a great recruiting tool and good public relations.
Where it can be done, it should be done.
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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it!
www.AnySoldier.com
Yep, as demonstrated by Congress, in the early days after the Revolution, approved the first printing of the English Bible in the states for the espress reason "a neat edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use in schools"... and they then commissioned that printing, and officially endorsed it.
And the early textbooks for public schools - reading primers, that used Bible verses to teach reading.
Or John Jay, President of the Continental Congress during the Revolution, Secretary of State under Washington, and the original chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who forcefully declared (in his roll as Chief Justice!): Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers; and it is the duty - as well as the privilege and interest - of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.
Or the 1892 U.S. Supreme Court decision that stated "No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people.... This is a Christian nation."
There are so many ways the government needs to avoid looking like it supports any one religion...
FREAKING OBOZO DESTROYING AMERICA YET IN ANOTHER WAY!!!
But he sends AF-1 up tp buzz Manhattan with his friends on a scenic joy-ride terrifying Millions of Manhattanites sohis friend George Lucas can get the required movie shots for his Black History Documentary!! OBOZO AND AYERS HATE AMERCA!
YO! Thet have been receiving the flyovers for 40 years! Are you so blind that you don’t see the Obozo Message?
Stupid people say and du stupid things, dont they? Like voting for a KENYAN Dictator and defending the Dictator’s Trashing of Our Proud Military and Our Great Military with commnts like allegely Saving Money on Traditional Flyovers when the Dictator is throwing it away on buying Illegal Votes and supporting Terrorist Murderers and Dictators like IRAN, Chavez, Castro and others:-)
AMEN! ZERO TURNING AMERCA INTO THE 58th MUSLIM CALIPHATE!!
When are people going to understand that ZERO declared America isn’t Christian and in the next breath praised America for being MUSLIM!!!
I’m all for Air Force flyovers at Muslim events. There is some good footage of this up at YouTube and such.
;-P
This is the start of the military becoming less the people’s military and more the military of certain interests. I’ll bet there would have been no questions asked of the flyover was requested for a Muslim festival for fear of “offending” them.
note no response...probably has no idea what Everson is either..
man, the ignorance and barinwashing amongst many young “conservatives” is scary
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