Posted on 02/01/2008 2:21:41 PM PST by Sub-Driver
San Francisco To Vote On Alcatraz As Peace Center SAN FRANCISCO (CBS) ― It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.
The measure's purely symbolic, given that the legislative branch would have to formally switch the island prison from federal to city hands, and that the proposal faces a host of other obstacles, including a lack of funding or legal force.
That doesn't meant the measure on Tuesday's ballot hasn't gotten attention - much of it negative.
"VOTE NO ON THIS RIDICULOUS PROPOSAL," the San Francisco Republican Party thundered in a voters' pamphlet.
"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," was the San Francisco Chronicle's more tempered editorial recommending a "no" vote.
Even if Congress signed off on turning over the island, now maintained by the National Park Service, the logistics might be tricky, said Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for Mayor Gavin Newsom.
"While the mayor is in favor of global peace," Ballard said diplomatically, declining to take a formal position on the measure, "right now we're in a budget crisis, so it would be difficult to come up with the money to buy Alcatraz from the feds."
The colorful peace activist behind the proposal is undaunted.
"Inspired ideas are always resisted. It's just par for the course," said Da Vid (he legally changed his name after it came to him during meditation). "Any time you push the envelope, which is what we're doing here, there are going to be people that are going to push back."
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Oh, BARF!
If you spelled "Peace" a bit differently, I could sorta understand.........
Perhaps this will be a first small step toward a better world. A world without war, or jail.
Kumbayah, one and all.
Couldn’t we just use it to lock up all the asshats who thought of this?
I guess Duh Mass was already taken.
Well it could bring most peace activists into the bullseye.
Besides, isn’t that a place designated for criminals?
I’ll have to give that some thought.
so let me get this straight. (pun) The proponents feel so strongly that they are willing to go to war over peace? Is their idea worth fighting for? HMMMMMM
I was always hoping that it could be remodeled and, much like a zoo, displayed the Clintons together in a 6 x 9 cell wearing stripes. I would have paid a great deal of money to visit that attraction on Alcatraz.
Typical liberal fascism... trying to control property that doesn’t even belong to you.
This needs more pointing and laughing.
Judging from the condition of the City and County of San Francisco, it would make more sense to reopen it as a prison.
He wasn't meditating he was drinking the bong water.
It could be a boom for local bars.
New drinks like “Tards on the Rocks” or “AlcaTrazodone Coolers” could really take off.
The first name that came to "Da Vid" during meditation was I Diot. He resisted that inspired idea.
Always thought it would make a great Casino venue.
you can bet dollars to donuts that if this were to pass and go through, the “Peace Center” island would be littered with trash, and there would be daily fights between the various factions within the Kookdom that would visit this island.
San Francisco should buy it up and send all their homeless there.
LMAO
Seed the bay with Great Whites and leave the new inmates to fend for themselves.
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