Enough of San Fran Freako
I am a San Francisco native. I love the town, or at least what it once was. When I had an opportunity to come back to California after many years “out there,” I was thrilled. Home to Northern California, my heart soared.
My brother, a few years older than me, recalled fondly the fleet’s homecoming after World War II. The parade of the glorious ships parading under the Golden Gate. San Francisco had had such an important role in that time. It was a history in which we all took pride.
I even took a sort of perverse pride in the San Francisco of the 60s. The Summer of Love, The Filmore, The Jefferson Airplane all were a testament to what a welcoming place the town was. The birth of gay political power with Supervisor Milk, though he held political views way to the Left of my own, was a welcome coming forth of an abused segment of the population. The years of the 49ers brought another side of the community to light. It seemed Joe Sixpack and the aging hippies co-existed. Dirty Harry… ah, Dirty Harry! And then the was Zodiac, something dark and terribly frightening. All of it was part of my town. Colorful, cosmopolitan, beautiful, forward-thinking.
But what do we have now under Major Nuisance and the Stooges?
Let’s look at some recent votes of the Board of Stupivisors:
1. They recently voted to seek the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney;
2. They voted to keep military recruiters out of schools;
3. They have officially dis-invited the U.S. Navy from using the city’s piers;
4. They rejected a museum for the USS Iowa,
5. They have voted to demand that FOXNews fire Bill O’Reilly.
They can not get the bums off the streets, but they can worry about who works for Fox Broadcasting.
San Francisco has become the laughing stock of the entire country. What once was open and inclusive is now boorish and elitist. I am embarassed by my hometown.
What is it going to take to change things? When are the citizens of this once great city going to get rid of these clowns? When are they going to appreciate the harm that is being done?
Alas San Francisco!
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Posted by John Wilson (aka MontereyJohn)
March 10th, 2006 at 5:05 am
San Francisco changed a long time ago. I was raised in the City and lived there the majority of my life. Once the liberals got ahold of her, that’s all she wrote. The once blue collar neighborhoods became gentrified. The military, which was such an integral part of SF, were scorned. The waterfront - well, they raped it. The ethnic groups, minorities, became the majority when it came to politics. I got the hell out ten years ago and never looked back.
March 11th, 2006 at 6:27 am
“The Summer of Love…all were a testament to what a welcoming place the town was.”
San Francisco may have been welcoming to those 60’s folks, but they were not welcoming to others. They despised the military back then, and they held a lot of other foolish, stupid opinions. There are few people more narrow-minded and empty-headed than a hippie. Intolerant prigs.
March 13th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
When you can’t manage your own business? .. what do you do? .. you mind other peoples business
what childishness
Its too bad that San Francisco has been taken down to the sorry level that it is at by these fools