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| Alcatraz to Peace Center |
| 2008-02-05 |
| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco voters will decide on Tuesday whether to remove the famous Alcatraz Prison visited by thousands of tourists a day and instead create a "global peace center." Somebody has found another way to waste taxpayer money on a useless project and make a bundle at the same time. The proposition sharing the presidential primary ballot comes from the director of the California-based Global Peace Foundation who gives his name as Da Vid. He says transforming Alcatraz will "liberate Haven't we head from him before? Funny way to spell David. Sounds like he's one toke over the line. Supporters would like to raze the prison and build a medicine wheel, a labyrinth and a conference center for non-violent conflict resolution. Volunteers collected 10,350 voter signatures last year to put it on the local ballot. I got an idea! Have a conference when the Center is built and then don't send any boats to take the peaceniks off again. They can live in their own little LA LA Land. But even in a city long famed for its embrace of counterculture, many are skeptical about he plan. "Perhaps we haven't reached the proper stage of enlightenment yet, but we're more inclined to support propositions with defined sources of funding attached to them," the San Francisco Chronicle said in an editorial. In other words, "We're not going to back this as we don't get any money from it". Alcatraz is San Francisco's second-most popular paid tourist attraction after cable cars, luring 1.4 million visitors annually on a short ferry ride into San Francisco Bay. Sounds like a Plan. Eliminate a major source of Touroid Money and replace it with a Pipe Dream so everyone can feel good. To skeptics Da Vid responds: "Like John Lennon, I may be a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." Sounds more like a Pipe Dreamer. Not into reality. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #6 Demanding the lead in creating the FEDERATION + STARFLEET ACADEMY??? You just know the KLINGONS, ROMULANS, ZENTRAEDI, the SHADOWS, the DOMINION, etal. aren't gonna take this from Earth lying down, espec after the SUN SURRENDERED ONCE WE BUILT THE SUN/STAR-DESTROYING NEXIAN HYPERMISSLE TO SAVE THE EARTH FROM GLOBAL WARMING. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-02-05 17:37 |
| #5 Even better. Brush aside that pesky city government, a third to the hunter/killer dolphin training school, a third to the experimental nuclear sewage treatment oil drilling plant so they can work the bugs out of that concept, and a third to the VX missle site targetting Berleley... we'll even give Pelosi credit for bringing in those much needed federal tax dollars to the district. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-05 16:05 |
| #4 I believe you are right, Beavis. I remember quite q while ago that some Native Americans occupied the place and wanted it as a "sacred place". They didn't get to stay, either. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-02-05 15:57 |
| #3 I thought it was federal property. It's been 20 years since I did the tourist thing there, but I recall those were national park personnel giving tours. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2008-02-05 15:49 |
| #2 A VX missile launch site targeting Berkeley would also be good. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-02-05 15:41 |
| #1 I think the Feds should confiscate it and make it their new training center for the hunter/killer dolphins. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-05 15:25 |