In the most idiotic move since Dennis Kucinich first advocated disbanding the Department of Defense, voters are considering whether or not to change Alcatraz, the famed prison, into the “Alcatraz Peace Centre”. I kid you not.
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.
If you wonder why people don’t gravitate to people who believe “peace is the answer” or take you very seriously, it’s because you think that you can “improve” the world’s psychic vibe by putting a bunch of pacifists on an island. That isn’t a solution. Nothing the peaceniks ever offer is a solution.
And so, in the face of a McCain nomination, some things never change. I’m going to go eat a steak.
