Toledo Mayor orders Marines out of town!
Looks like Berkeley, CA isn’t the only city who doesn’t want the Marines around.
OK, so 200 Marines stationed in Grand Rapids, Michigan, piled on to five buses and came to Toledo, Ohio, yesterday to practice some urban patrol exercises. The Toledo police knew about the request for the three-day exercise well in advance, but somehow Mayor Carty Finkbeiner didn’t see the memo requesting permission for the event. So when when the first bus arrives at 3:20 p.m. and Staff Sergeant Andre Davis steps off, he is greeted by a city employee and told that the mayor wanted him and his soldiers out of town by 6 p.m. “I wish,” Sgt Davis drily remarked, “they would have told us this four hours ago.”I gather that Mayor Finkbeiner (a Democrat, readers will be surprised to learn), like the folks in Berkeley, California, can’t think of the United States Marines without having the first lines of “The Destruction of Sennacherib” float through his head (“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold …”) “The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people,” said Brian Schwartz, the mayor’s spokesman.
Wonder when “The Fink” Finkbeiner is up for re-election? Toledoans what are you gonna do about this?
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Pingback by Essential Saturday Afternoon Reading , An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings — February 9, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
How do these idiots become elected officials. If their town had some sort of tragedy the national guard and military is who they hollar for to help. These officials forget why and how we have these freedom we have. The citizens of Toledo should be ashamed of this and ask for the mayor to step down. Its because of the military men and women this idiot can run for mayor.
Comment by Tony McClenney — February 11, 2008 @ 7:37 am
Toledo and Berkeley, CA should be ashamed of their actions against U.S. Marines. The mayors and city counsels are a disgrace to America. Don’t they realize that there is a real war going on and if we do not have our military protecting us, we would wind up having to pledge allegiance to the Islamic fascists or face death!
Do those knuckleheads know what Sharia law is?
Saul Goldstein, Boca Raton, FL
Comment by Saul Goldstein — February 14, 2008 @ 7:32 am
saul, i agree with you whole heartedly….the protesters can’t see the terrorist for the cowardly streak down their back!!!!!they make me sick….they should be sent there for a few weeks…they would beg to come back here…
Comment by e.leonard — March 1, 2008 @ 3:35 pm