Posted on 01/18/2007 10:15:38 AM PST by SmithL
I have been avidly following the sordid tale of the Baker's Dozen, a Yale glee club, who came to San Francisco to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a private party and were, for their troubles, apparently set upon by thugs and beaten up. The motives for the beatings, the possible role of the youthful singers in provoking the violence and, most important, the identity of the thugs, are all unknown at this time.
Guess what? Politics are involved.
The full narrative is available elsewhere; I'll just skip lightly across the highlights. The owners of the party house are two veteran San Francisco police officers, one retired and one on administrative leave, who were charged with leaking names to the media during the Fajitagate scandal. The attackers, by contrast, were allegedly the sons of some very prominent families. Said attackers, as is so often the case with scions, slipped into the darkness with no charges being filed.
Instead, many people, including Mayor Gavin Newsom, spent a lot of time wondering out loud about whether alcohol was being served to minors at the party. Let's see, assault or underage drinking: How should we prioritize this investigation?
Police Chief Heather Fong said the glee club members were unavailable ... (This is where it gets fun, from a spectator point of view -- the Yalie parents are wealthy and well connected, too, and they're not going to be put off by the pipsqueak power structure of San Francisco.)
...When I started here, every editor had a list of names. If any of those names should pop up in police reports, divorce suits or on party guest lists, the publisher was to be notified before any story ran.
...The police had a version of that list too,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Politics in our home town; smells like a French whore house at low tide.
It's not who you know, or what you know, but what you know on who you know.........
Ahh, San Francisco. You are what you hate and you hate what you are. The Paris of America.
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