'There will be no more Christmas trees at Sea-Tac Airport this season after the Port of Seattle received a complaint about them.
For more than 25 years, the airport has celebrated the holidays with Christmas trees over its entrances. But now the trees that decorated the entrances to Sea-Tac can only be found down back hallways out of the public's view, after the Port of Seattle ordered all 15 trees removed.
Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky asked the Port of Seattle to include a menorah among the holiday decorations beginning in mid-October.
"At first we got a light yes, then we got a strong no," he said.
Then Bogomilsky's attorney got involved. "I did have, I did have a lawyer. Just sort of have a backup plan," he said.
The Port of Seattle told KOMO 4 news the rabbi with the Central Organization for Jewish Learning threatened to sue.
According to airport spokeswoman Rachel Garson, the two sides could not reach an agreement before the lawsuit was to be filed.
"Since this is the busiest time of year, we decided to take the decorations down now and consider a new policy after the new year," she said.
The sudden change left the 75,000 travelers that walk through Sea-Tac each day wondering where the trees have gone.
"I think it's very unfortunate. Why lose the Christmas spirit? Christmas is for kids," said passenger Lisa Jones.
And angry airport employees have started a campaign urging people to call the Port of Seattle to complain.
"It's a Christmas tree! It's not like they were displaying crucifixes or menorahs or anything religious, but Christmas trees that have been around here for years," said an employee who asked not to be identified.
"If this is the evergreen state, how offensive can evergreen trees be by simply putting lights on it?" said another employee named Jim.
But the rabbi says he hopes the holiday spirit may still be saved, offenses mended and the trees returned to the front of the airport.
"Took them less than 24 hours to remove the Christmas trees, I'd hope they'd reinstall all those Christmas trees throughout the airport, and hopefully allow us to display the menorah," he said.
Bogomilsky said there are more than two dozen menorahs desplayed throughout the state.'http://www.komotv.com/news/4873941.html-------------------------------*
and i say maybe it's a good thing after all. americans have been led by the nose by lies (idiot fools that we are) to the other side of the world on a wing, a prayer, some lofty ill applied sexually exploited poetry, oh and "a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises. All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear. And disregards the rest, hmmmm..." gibberish, and now...
a significant demographic segment of american life is being disassembled in a host of ways. by people who presume to love her: America.
they less fortunate, or fortunate; which ever side of the line you're straddling, are being disassembled most heinously for the same "pocket full of mumbles, such are promises" dead, broken, driven into the arms of dark-black chaotic insanity, limbs blown off, faces torn, skulls blown more than half away where children wipe tears from their daddy's eye a monstrous eye now that will not stop weeping for fear of falling out onto the kitchen table, rivers of blood, mountains of treasure spilt & spent by war profiteers w/neocon surnames of though not limited to: Cheney, Bush, Kissinger, Rove, Kristol, Perle, Wolfowitz, led then by a Frum filled bully puppet with a mouth full of marbles onto a geopolitical stage less than a handful of americans understand in either event; a neighborhood, as Benjamin Netanyahu refers to it: "A tough neighborhood", and it is done.
we are there. we will not leave gracefully. it will not happen at the snap of anyone's fingers here. it will be a sticky, tacky process if ever it gets started. much more blood will be shed. much more treasure (if indeed it ever was) will be spent...lost.
i think it is important for americans to understand the simple joys of other americans and leave them be, sadder still that monstrous eye en route back home ever sobbing with his/her skull blown half away otherwise silent in a cargo or troop transport, waiting for that homecoming christmas tree moment in time and remembrance of free will near/home sweet home pushed now past an empty spot on the ground, an empty void to fill, fill now with the images of chaos, death & destruction for what may seem like no reason at all, or whatsoever.
a suggestion here, just a suggestion: leave alone our simple joys
God Bless America! :patriot: :cry:
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