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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (SF reacts to No Military)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 02-20-06 | Various

Posted on 02/20/2006 1:27:28 PM PST by jecIIny

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - Monday, February 20, 2006

Does the United States need a military?

Editor -- As a born and raised San Franciscan, an anti-war protester since the '60s, a former vice chair of the state Democratic party and a person who goes on national TV on a regular basis in defense of our anti-war stances, I have to say that when I heard Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval say on the Fox News show "Hannity & Colmes" that the United States should not have a military, I thought that I didn't hear him correctly. After the fourth time he said it, I was stunned.

San Francisco is the city of peace and is the city of independent thinking, but I do not know one San Franciscan, other than Gerardo, who thinks that the United States of America should not have a military, not one. Even the anti-war Vatican has a military!

What was Gerardo thinking? To be clear, as a San Franciscan, I absolutely believe that the United States of America needs a military.

I can't even imagine what Bill O'Reilly will do with this!

ANGELA ALIOTO

San Francisco Let's think this through

Editor -- What, the United States without a military? Shocking, absolutely shocking. Of course if a child continually uses a toy to hurt other kids, it's a good idea to take the toy away from the child. If a driver can't seem to drive without running down pedestrians, we probably want to take away his driver's license. If a doctor purposely misleads patients and causes harm to them, by all means, take away the license to practice medicine.

But take away our military? Oh no, not that.

CYNTHIA GAIR

San Francisco

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: fruitsnutsflakes; moonbat; sanfrancisco
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To: DOGEY

"Then they could have their own army. I bet it would look a lot like the Belgian army"

That as a hard burn on the Belgian army.


21 posted on 02/20/2006 1:42:50 PM PST by L98Fiero
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To: jecIIny

I don't mind them saying this at all. The beauty of free speech is that it gives one enough rope to hang oneself. :)

Long live free speech!


22 posted on 02/20/2006 1:42:53 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: 91B
@#$*&% elites.
23 posted on 02/20/2006 1:43:09 PM PST by 91B (God made man, Sam Colt made men equal.)
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To: jecIIny
A lot of San Franciscan's are just smart enough to realize they have to have a military to protect their right to protest for their ridiculous causes.
24 posted on 02/20/2006 1:43:16 PM PST by jazusamo (:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
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To: merry10

"but she may not know them."

She doesn't appear to know Gerardo, either. She happened to catch him on TV, it sounds like.


25 posted on 02/20/2006 1:44:07 PM PST by jdm (You can learn a lot about paranoids just by following them around.)
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To: jecIIny
Let's let San Francisco be it's own little city state and be a country like Luxembourg.







































and then invade them.
26 posted on 02/20/2006 1:44:45 PM PST by usmcobra (I'm a Marine on currently on inactive status awaiting an eternal change of duty station)
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To: jdm
BS. Loads of people in SF want no military.

Angela Alioto, meet Cynthia Gair!

27 posted on 02/20/2006 1:46:04 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: jecIIny


Nicholas Cage should have just let Brig. Gen. Hummel nerve gas the lot of them...


28 posted on 02/20/2006 1:48:19 PM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: Echo Talon
God help us if China invaded California.

They already have...and they drive cars too.

29 posted on 02/20/2006 1:48:47 PM PST by skimask (The United States Marine Corps is, quite frankly, the finest fighting force on God's earth.)
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To: jecIIny

When the earthquake tumbles the city, we must insist the rubble be abondened.


30 posted on 02/20/2006 1:50:00 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
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To: jecIIny
Editor -- As a born and raised San Franciscan, an anti-war protester since the '60s
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I can't even imagine what Bill O'Reilly will do with this!
ANGELA ALIOTO

"So, what the hell is your name, Alito, Alioto, Obama, Osama...hic! Let's go driving, Miss Alito-Alioto-Osama, er, er...ah, just pass me another drink."

31 posted on 02/20/2006 1:52:33 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: 2banana

I'd be willing to bet the next terrorist attack will be in or near SF, they always hit the soft targets.


32 posted on 02/20/2006 1:58:08 PM PST by txroadhawg ("Stuck on stupid? I invented stupid! " Al Gore)
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To: jecIIny
Look at the bright side...

At least they tend to conglomerate together letting people outside the SF Bay area live somewhat normal...
33 posted on 02/20/2006 1:58:30 PM PST by DB (©)
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To: JRios1968

I'll tell you why San Franciscans hate the military: because California lands a lot of big defense contracts.

They hate the military, but they'll gladly cash the paychecks to build the bombers and weapons systems.


34 posted on 02/20/2006 2:02:45 PM PST by mwfsu84
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To: jecIIny

http://www.redf.org/images/cynthia-gair-1105.jpg

Cynthia Gair

Director, Portfolio and Field Advancement

Cynthia Gair oversees the comprehensive business support provided to the REDF portfolio of social enterprises. This includes business assistance from REDF staff as well as from consultants in specialty areas. In addition to her work at REDF, she has provided training in business management to hundreds of urban entrepreneurs, and has served on the Board and Loan Committee of the Northern California Community Loan Fund.

Prior to joining REDF, Cynthia managed businesses in book distribution, retail clothing, health products and light manufacturing. Her previous activities include serving as Operating General Partner of Terranomics Ventures, a San Francisco venture capital firm. She holds a BS in Finance and an MBA from George Washington University. She studies Italian, Zen Buddhism, and music in her spare time.



REDF provides guidance, leadership and investment to a portfolio of nonprofit social enterprises, changing the lives of people who face poverty, homelessness, mental illness and other barriers to employment.

REDF funds programs through long-term commitments to help move people out of poverty. Our approach, called “high-engagement philanthropy,” places emphasis on making an organization more sustainable over time, using best business practices and building its capacity to help others.



For every dollar donated in the San Francisco Bay Area last year, three cents went to homelessness. Of that, less than one cent was spent on sustainable, lasting solutions. While REDF is a nonprofit organization, we view all of our grants as investments. Therefore, we refer to the tax-exempt organizations receiving our support as "investees" instead of the more traditional "grantees." The "return" REDF receives for this investment is not financial, but rather investing vital philanthropic resources in helping to build the capacity of the nonprofit sector. While this may seem like simple semantics to some, we feel it is important to affirm the fact that we are not simply making charitable gifts, but rather investing precious philanthropic resources in helping to build the capacity of the nonprofit sector.


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Cynthia Gair, formerly of modified venture capital model, Keystone Community Ventures which provides financial, technical and management assistance to nonprofit groups starting enterprises.


35 posted on 02/20/2006 2:06:10 PM PST by kcvl
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To: jecIIny

http://www.nndb.com/people/853/000047712/alioto.jpg


Angela Alioto




San Francisco Politician and pundit

Served on San Franscisco Board of Supervisors from 1988 until 8 January 1997, when she had to depart due to term limitations. Served as the California chair for former turtlenecked Governor Jerry Brown's unsuccessful Presidential campaign in 1992, and she herself ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2003, losing to Gavin Newsom and Green candidate Matt Gonzalez who faced each other in a runoff. Angela now practices law and was once named "Litigator of the Month" by National Law Journal. Sometimes you can spot her as a talking head on cable news programs.

Father: Joseph L. Alioto (Mayor of San Franscico, b. 1916)
Mother: Angelina Genaro Alioto
Husband: Adolfo Veronese (m. 8-Dec-1968)
Daughter: Angela Mera Veronese
Son: Adolfo Veronese, Jr.
Son: Joseph Alioto Veronese (attorney)
Son: Gian-Paolo Veronese (CFO)

High School: Convent of the Sacred Heart
University: Lone Mountain College (1971)
Law School: University of San Franscisco School of Law (1983)


36 posted on 02/20/2006 2:08:44 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Echo Talon

Actually, I was thinking an even up trade - China gets California and their cheap labor force from the south and we get Hong Kong! Fair trade, I would say!!


37 posted on 02/20/2006 2:09:21 PM PST by curlewbird
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CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER, Angela Alioto


38 posted on 02/20/2006 2:09:50 PM PST by kcvl
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Alioto, an attorney who has won some multimillion-dollar civil rights judgments, poured nearly a million dollars of her own money into this, her third unsuccessful bid to become mayor. She said her endorsement of Newsom was mostly based on pushing her policy issues, not just her personal ambition, although she admits that was some of it.

"Am I ambitious? Of course I am," Alioto said. "I just ran for mayor and spent a lot of money doing it."


39 posted on 02/20/2006 2:10:42 PM PST by kcvl
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To: 2banana
Let the muslims run this city for a few years

Allow sharia in NY, Seattle, SF, & other liberal hot spots for 4 years. Then we will move in and take it back. Problem solved.

40 posted on 02/20/2006 2:10:59 PM PST by SampleMan
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