Posted on 02/09/2008 5:54:38 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown He says urban exercises scare people
By JC REINDL BLADE STAFF WRITER
A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well as inside the mostly vacant Madison Building, 607 Madison Ave.
Toledo police knew days in advance about their plans for a three-day exercise. Yet somehow the memo never made it to Mayor Finkbeiner, who ordered the Marines out yesterday afternoon just minutes before their buses were to arrive.
"The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people," said Brian Schwartz, the mayor's spokesman.
"He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."
So after a brief stop at a friendly base in Perrysburg Township, the Marines by early evening were back on their way home to Grand Rapids.
"I wish they would have told us this four hours ago," Staff Sgt. Andre Davis said.
Sergeant Davis, who traveled ahead of the five-bus convoy, stepped from his vehicle into downtown about 3:20 p.m. and was told by a city employee that the mayor wanted him and his soldiers packed up and out by 6 p.m.
Members of the 1st Battalion, 24th Marines have trained periodically in downtown Toledo since at least 2004 and most recently in May, 2006.
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What will it take - an IED or some suicide bombers to make them understand WHY the military is important? Would they rather see an IED go off downtown during rush hour?
>>”The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people,” <<
Guess what, Mayor. The events they are training to thwart are even scarier. A$$hat.
An IED in downtown Toledo would probably be an improvement. Finkbeiner is an idiot!
Hence the term, what a dirty, rotten fink.....
Toledo is a town that started out full of old school UAW union Democrats and has “modernized” into being full of NeoLiberal moonbat Leftists. You can decide for yourselves whether this is a good thing or not.
With all of the Muslims around Toledo it would be a good idea to have the Marines there from time to time!
-—Berserkely, Commiefornia moves east—
I’m reminded of a Hitlery story - something about requesting that military uniforms not be worn by those around the First Family because they scared Chelsea
Frighten people!!?? Good lord, United States citizens should be elated to see our finest. Man I fear for my grand children, this will be a very different place for them.
The Marines should go train in Detroit.Live ammo,AT4’s,everything they’ve got.No one would scarcely notice.
Unpublished standards requirements for dhimmicratic public “servants”:
1: No education save for the “easy A “ course of little or no substances
2: Grades of C average or less (even given those course described in 1)
3: No accomplishments of any sort outside of politics
4: Could be a lawyer
5: Never had a “real” job
6: Has no concept of economics
7: Has never had, and never will - have an original idea
8: Lies constantly about “accomplishments”
Sound familiar??
Frighten people? Heck, if I saw them training downtown I take them a plate of warm cookies.
Wouldn’t expect much less out of Finkbeiner. He’s an anti-gunner as well.
This isn’t even Berkeley. It’s in our neck of the woods this time. I’ll be firing off a letter to the editor of the local paper soon.
BS. Blatant grandstanding by The Fink.
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