But the objects of their outcries — taxes, deficits, immigration and supposed violations of the Constitution — are of far less consequence than the great failures that plague the nation.
Almost as soon as they are in the air they break out into a clamour of calls and though their outcry grows quieter with distance, we can still hear them clearly as they come into land on the far side of the loch, where their unexpected arrival prompts a further outburst from the geese already there.
"The other boys gave evidence of pain by their outcries," wrote William, "but Baldwin, although his comrades did not spare him, endured it altogether too patiently, as if he felt nothing .
In the midst of the sensational headlines covering their outcries for justice over the past week, the Onion, of all places, spoke truth into the heart of what is happening.
Their aim was to create a sort of anti-monument, a cultural center that was anything but institutional in appearance, and the proof of their success was the outcry that followed.
The French historian Alain Corbin, in his study "Village Bells," cites a report by an administrator in Somme: "There is no disputing the fact that what hit the people hardest in the Revolution was being deprived of their bells". The public outcry was such that French authorities were ultimately unable to enforce the anti-bell legislation.
In Kenya last month, police lobbed tear gas at school children protesting the "grabbing" of their playground, triggering a national outcry that forced authorities to abandon plans to sell the plot to a private developer.
Vandalising or bombing clinics; stalking, assaulting staff, clients or providers; publishing the home addresses of providers or staff, names, photos and school addresses of their children to aid stalking; outcries for a war: all of this anti-abortion activity and more could be classed as terrorism by the definitions our government uses.
Sarah Lawrence College didn't end up listening to the hundreds and hundreds of letters of outcry.
