Posted by
The Conservative Manifesto on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:08:48 AM
The city of San Francisco is truly becoming more pathetic with each
passing day. The latest from San Fran-freako is that the city has
denied the Marine Corps permission to film a commercial.
"San
Francisco is, once again, the center of a controversy over how city
leaders treat the U.S. military. This time, it involves an elite group
of Marines who wanted to film a recruitment commercial in San Francisco
on the anniversary of 9/11.
The tension has been building in the
two weeks since the city turned away members of the Silent Drill
Platoon, and it boiled over Monday afternoon at a meeting of the San
Francisco Film Commission.
The U.S. Marine Silent Drill Platoon
performed Monday morning in New York's Times Square. They filmed part
of a recruitment commercial through the start of the morning rush hour
-- something they could not do in San Francisco on the anniversary of
9/11.
"It's insulting, it's demeaning. This woman is going to
insult these young heroes by just arbitrarily saying, 'no, you're not
going to film any Marines on California Street," said Captain Greg
Corrales of the SFPD Traffic Bureau.
Captain Greg Corrales
commands the police traffic bureau that works with crews shooting
commercials, TV shows and movies in the city. He's also a Marine
veteran and his son is serving his third tour of duty in Iraq.
He
says Film Commission Executive Director Stefanie Coyote would only
allow the Marine's production crew to film on California Street if
there were no Marines in the picture. They wound up filming the empty
street and will have to superimpose the Marines later.
"Ms.
Coyote's politics blinded her to her duty as the director of the Film
Commission and as a responsible citizen," said Captain Corrales.
We asked Stefanie Coyote why they're not allowing the Marines to shoot on California Street. She wouldn't answer our questions.
Which
is surprising to me, I thought San Franciscans were very open about
their distaste for the military. As the article points out, the city
has a history of anti-military sentiment.
Captain
Corrales and several other Marine veterans came to the Film Commission
Monday afternoon. They see this as just the latest insult along with
the city blocking the USS Iowa from docking here, banning the junior
ROTC from high schools, and trying to ban the yearly Blue Angels air
show.
Not to mention, as Jonathan
points out,
S.F. city council member Gerardo Sandoval's statements early last year
in which he stated "I don’t think we should have a military."
I
tell you, those NorCal lefties don't know what they're missing when it
comes to my Marine Corps' Silent Drill Team. It is in (dis)honor of Ms.
Coyote and her leftist cohorts that I bring you
this beautiful video.
Hat tip:
Crush Liberalism