Flying into the future
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March 6, 2019
One can be realistic and not realize his or her dream. Brett Smith, head of Propeller Airports, was praised to the skies for his leadership in bringing commercial air traffic to Everett’s Paine Field to fruition. What an accomplishment: major airlines flying 24 times daily to places people want to go.
Jay Inslee is running for president. No other candidate is making climate change their primary issue. He has made it his campaign’s centerpiece. For years he has put cap and trade of carbon pollutants and green jobs before Washington’s citizens. His 2007 book, “ Apollo’s Fire” shows his consistency. The future has been on his mind for a long time.
Whether or not his campaign propels him to the White House, he knows the direction in which sanity and sustainability lie.
The Navy and Defense Department insist on bringing 36 Growler Jets to Whidbey Island. Will they knowingly destroy the village in order to save it? The record is clear: our military has puposely killed peasants they were sent in to save. Do our defense forces love the military more than us, the citizens they work for and are sworn to protect?
If the Secretary of the Navy declines to follow the recommendations of the American Council on Historic Preservation, he will be privileging expanding jets and flights over concern of harm to people and historic buildings at the heart of the Washington pioneer story.
The Navy trains to protect us but expanding this training tears at the fabric of their neighbors and the democratic process.
It is a flight – as in an escape – into a false narrative of the past if the Navy’s claims the cost of defense is ignoring the people and their rules of civil society.
The American Council on Historic Preservation is not a fringe, lunatic group and neither is the Sound Defense Alliance.
Three hopes for the future. Which affirm life and which threaten our way of life?
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