Memories Of San Francisco
By Gordon Bloyer (04/03/03)
As I watch and read about the anti-war demonstrators in San Francisco, it brings back memories of my 17 years living in North Beach.
I moved to San Francisco the year before Joe Montana became the quarterback for the 49ers. When Joe became the quarterback every Sunday during the football season was a thrill. What a great time. Joe left for Kansas City. I left the year after Joe. Without Joe Montana, San Francisco went downhill. I moved to Portage, Indiana.
Portage is a Democratic city but it is not a ''liberal'' Democratic city. We have steelworkers, ironworkers, and hard workers. There are no masses of homeless in the streets. There are no anti-war demonstrators. They are in Gary or at the local university. They are a small group. Most people are against tax increases and support our troops.
We do have the local equivalent of the San Francisco Chronicle, and it is called the Portage Times. They love tax increases. Portage has low taxes, low crime, and low-priced restaurants. Our city does not smell of urine and there are no corners where hoodlums or hookers hang out. Best of all, Willie Brown is not the mayor.
Liberalism has destroyed San Francisco. Anti-war demonstrators can break the law and nothing happens to them. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and peaceful dissent. No one has fought for the right to violent dissent. No one has fought for the right to urinate in the street or to pretend the abnormal is normal. Our troops have never fought a war for government health insurance or quotas for UC Berkeley. Our troops have never fought a war to remove prayer from schools or pay social security to non-citizens.
Liberal Utopia is not far from the City by the Bay. I can take you to a place where you can get a place to live, three meals a day, free health care, free education including college and a job, all free. No one that lives in this Utopia wants to be there. It is called San Quentin. You could also call it Cuba. In Cuba you may not get the job or the meals. Isn’t it funny that the people that live in these places would rather be free than to live for free. If only the Chronicle and Rob Morse could also understand that socialism is not freedom.
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