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Title: Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace centre
Post by: bijou on February 06, 2008, 03:32:20 PM
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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 centre."

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 energies, raising the whole consciousness of the Bay Area."

Supporters would like to raze the prison and build a medicine wheel, a labyrinth and a conference centre for non-violent conflict resolution. Volunteers collected 10,350 voter signatures last year to put it on the local ballot.

But even in a city long famed for its embrace of counterculture, many are sceptical about the 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.

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link (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080206/tod-uk-usa-politics-alcatraz-bfe916c_1.html)

You know this plan might not be all bad if they put the Code Pinkos in the prison and locked the doors.  Who wouldn't want to go and see caged moonbats on display?  :-)
Title: Re: Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace centre
Post by: Lauri on February 06, 2008, 03:59:03 PM
isnt this prison on an island out there? and if so, who's going to row the leftie idiots back and forth?

i think the san frans ought to worry more about getting their crazy people off the streets and cleaning up their city, rather than spending more money they dont have on 'enlightenment' .. california is 16 billion in the hole, or dont they know this in that silly city?
Title: Re: Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace centre
Post by: bijou on February 06, 2008, 04:08:30 PM
Quote from: Lauri on February 06, 2008, 03:59:03 PM
isnt this prison on an island out there? and if so, who's going to row the leftie idiots back and forth?

i think the san frans ought to worry more about getting their crazy people off the streets and cleaning up their city, rather than spending more money they dont have on 'enlightenment' .. california is 16 billion in the hole, or dont they know this in that silly city?

I think they have the fantasy that tourists will subsidise this by continuing to use the ferry and the lefties will get a free ride.
Title: Re: Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace centre
Post by: THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ! on February 06, 2008, 04:08:46 PM
Peace centre huh?

I'd like to see those whackjobs try to get Dinner Jacket, Kim Jong II, Bin Laden, and the other worldwide despots to attend.

Tools.
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Title: Re: Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace centre
Post by: Ptarmigan on February 06, 2008, 07:28:48 PM
Uh, isn't Alcatraz Federal Property?
Title: Re: Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace centre
Post by: Lord Undies on February 06, 2008, 07:32:52 PM
I can see the Fairy Fairy now....it will have a sign on the back...."Ass, Grass, or Gas - Nobody Rides for Free".
Title: Re: Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace centre
Post by: Lord Undies on February 06, 2008, 07:36:53 PM
Quote from: Ptarmigan on February 06, 2008, 07:28:48 PM
Uh, isn't Alcatraz Federal Property?

Actually, it's a national park.