hello campers.
The Royal Air Force has landed with a large Display in Market Square, Nottingham.
They have come, complete with some shiny red toys like a BA Hawk jet fighter.
Liverpool Ploughshares Acquittal
http://archive.peacemagazine.org/v12n6p14.htm Peace activists have smashing time with genocidal aircraft
http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news62.htm Five arrested after BAE break-in
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6594995.stm The 'trainer' jet the UK loves to hawk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2012743.stm Hawks and Doves
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/1996/07/30/hawks-and-doves Royal Air Force recruitment will hope to do a roaring trade in getting more to take the Queen's shilling.
You can see how they do this. The younger the better. The sense of excitement, skiing, basketball, rock-climbing and playing Rambo with large guns. All designed to make you feel invincible. I have always thought that this approach lacks responsibility, don't you?
I little bird tells me, that recruitment is well down these last couple of years, since UK Armed Services are not just being used for the national defence, but to keep interfering in foreign parts, where they're not wanted.
All appears to be a big military showdown ! Perhaps those passin' would like to make their views known.
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what,what?
01.06.2007 08:28
those are meant to be reserved for chaps fresh from boarding school. Unless they develop a conscience & sense of honour of course, which some of our corporate bosses have done their best to wipe out since world war 2.
If your working class,you can damn well see the world licking boot polish as part of the ground crew.
Lord Haw Hawk,Bae
Embarrassing
01.06.2007 09:05
I feel embarrassed to live in a city that gives the RAF recruiting circus free way in the middle of Nottingham City Centre, without any opposition... How can this be?
Further reading:
RAF Iraq death inquiry
Policing Iraq RAF base cost £8m
RAF bombing raids on Iraq no-fly zone defied Foreign Office legal advice, say Lib Dems
RAF joins US forces in Iraq assault
RAF website on Iraq operations
John
Blimey
05.06.2007 17:34
Is there any way of knowing about this in advance, to take neccessary measures in future?
Reginald Hamstring