Alcatraz Replaced with Global Peace Centre?
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Feb 06 2008 at 10:00 am | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article
Call me nuts, but if there’s such a thing as “proper enlightenment,” I think it might have something to do with restraining yourself from pouring energy into “symbolic” solutions so you can save it up for the real ones.
But that’s just me I guess. And other bigoted, sexist, crew-cut knuckle-dragging hardcore right-wingers like the San Francisco Chronicle…
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 [t]he 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.
Alcatraz is San Francisco’s second-most popular paid tourist attraction after cable cars, luring 1.4 million visitors annually on a short ferry ride into San Francisco Bay.
To sceptics Da Vid responds: “Like John Lennon, I may be a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
H/T: Boortz.
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