Several years ago I visited Boston and toured the city, especially the historical sites. I made my way down the Patriot Trail which included stops such as the site of the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere's home that stands to this day, Bunker Hill.
The most spectacular, however was saved for the last. Old Ironsides, aka the USS Constitution, instrumental in winning the War of 1812. The ship was launched in 1797 and named by George Washington. Moored in Boston harbor, it still has the 44 cannons that adorned it during it's heyday. But the problem today is not of foreign conflicts and revolutionary democratic appeal but of urban whining. Can you undoubtedly guess the political persuasion of these types?
You see, the cannons that set off twice a day are just a bit noisy for residents of a new condo building: Old Ironsides’ upscale Charlestown neighbors are trying to pull off what British, French and Barbary pirate guns failed to accomplish in more than two centuries - silencing the cannons of the nation’s oldest commissioned naval vessel.
Miffed residents of a posh condo complex have invited the commanding officer of the USS Constitution over for a glass of wine so he can hear for himself that the frigate’s twice-daily cannon blasts - a tradition dating to 1798 - are “more disruptive to the neighborhood than you might have imagined.
Commanding Officer Timothy Cooper received the most recent complaint two weeks ago from neighbors suggesting naval officers assigned to the historic vessel eliminate the morning and evening blasts on weekends, reduce the size of the gunpowder charge and turn down the volume of the national anthem recording played during the daily flag raising and lowering ceremonies.
Read the rest here at the Boston Herald
Via Memeorandum
LCR,
ReplyDeleteThis bravo sierra goes on with small urban airports and rifle ranges. The idiot yuppies in Huntington Beach who moved in around Meadowlark Airport, hard by the confluence of Warner and Bolsa avenues, swore up and down their undying fealty for small aircraft and promised they could co-exist with the air traffic. Well, about two years later they rose up and forced the airport to be sold.
Scratch one place where I could take my kids for a great meal (small airports are noted for their restaurants; an attempt to attract pilots for the $200 hamburger) and an afternoon of watching Stearman's take off and land.
The same type of urban slime moved in to condos -- it's always condos -- across a dry wash from the San Gabriel Gun Club and, in less than a year, scratch one shooting gallery because of noise.
Quelle surprise!
Now you have to drive all the way up 39 to Burr[it]o Canyon to make holes in paper.
Heaven for us will be a nice landing strip with a great restaurant next to a shooting range..
..which will be surrounded by squishy condo owners living out eternity in their hell.
Pretentious, nouveau riche, NIMBY, jerk-offs and Boston, what a surprise.
ReplyDeleteThey would complain if they had nothing to complain about.
Signed a former Bostonian who was all to happy to leave.
May be they need to include a projectile and point it in the right direction.
ReplyDeleteFreedom can be so noisy at times!
ReplyDelete@ Boncka - And that would be such a beautiful thing. Can we begin the construction of said airport/shooting range/restaurant asap?
ReplyDelete@ Chris - I know that the city is as you say.
@ RG - Indeed.
@ Proof - Yes it can! And many among us have no idea that we can easily, (and are), losing our freedoms.
In answer to your question LCR: What would the commandeers of Old Ironsides think of our country today and we as citizens?
ReplyDeleteNicholson, Rodgers, Hull, Bainbridge, Percival, et. al. would be horrified.
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