Blue Angels Due to Be Grounded

Posted by Rev Billy on March 1, 2013 on Facebook: Reporting from the city of fighter-plane romance, San Diego, California - and preparing to address the Orange County Peace Coalition tomorrow - I want to heartily raise a glass to the demise of the precision flying team with their blue and gold F/A 18 Hornets. Oh it is surely a blow to the right-wingers around this navy town. There is even a mountain in my window called Blue Angel Mountain! But for families around the world who must fearfully gaze at the blue sky above them - the grounding of the aerial equivalent of a precision military parade is a move toward Peace. The unit was born in 1946 as a distorted child of the old barn-storming air shows. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the fire-bombing of Tokyo, Dresden - these civilian slaughters introduced the era of American air supremacy. The Blue Angels, the Nascar race of the heavens, kept America taxpayers shopping for violence. It masked the terrorizing by our bombardiers, the world of sorrow from late World War 2 through Viet Nam to the spy-craft and drones of today. We must come to terms with the real-life consequence of USA's beer and belch love of the blue jets. Let's re-teach ourselves Peace. The sequester has won for the world a reprieve from a key totem of American violence. Peace-a-luya! 

Posted by Rev Billy on March 4 on Facebook: AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WITH A FENCE DOWN THE MIDDLE: Our family reunion near Coronado Beach south of San Diego featured extremely low flights by military fighter-jets, helicopters, cargo planes... practicing landings to the north. I jogged up the beach to take a look. At a cyclone fence with threatening signs, then a second and third fence with robot-eyes up on poles - I gazed into the military camp. I expected barracks, a runway, etc. Instead I saw a big white hotel, young swimsuit clad couples in the surf, an 18-hole golf course. I saw the socialist utopia of Pentagon-life. The prosperous style which $700 Billion a year affords you. I stood there getting that the military world was very close to a carbon copy of the tourist world of my family's reunion. Militarism and tourism evolved into the same consumer's life. The Orwellian scary-thought is that both worlds now shape their citizen participants with the hypnotic bombardment of corporate marketing. The two populations risk death in different ways: the demoralizing series of meaningless illegal wars that a soldier faces is matched on the civilian side by psychos shooting school-kids, poisons in our food and miles of bleak super malls. The two Americas are being herded toward a single obedient personality by the mono-culture. Soon, the fence won't be necessary.

Posted by Rev Billy on March 4 on Facebook: Fabulous sermon fragment from the Los Angeles Sunday service with Exene Cervenka and the Triple Goddess Gospel Choir... "The person we called Father fucked us. Religion turned love into hate. Big Banks stole our homes and killed our climate. Patriotic feeling for our country became murder. Politicians replaced votes with dollars. Insurance coverage shrank with illness and disaster. The corporate class took an elevator up into a mirrored building and never returned. They talk to us from their desks in professional gibberish. The breakdown of consumer society is so complete that... "If we try to live an ordinary, healthy life we are asking for revolution. Let's accept this and - enjoy it! Revolujah! (Posted in celebration of the retreat of the Blue Angels -grounded for lack of funds.) Visit Rev Billy's Facebook Page for all the latests posts and pictures: www.facebook.com/revbilly