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 center."

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 center 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 skeptical about 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 skeptics Da Vid responds: "Like John Lennon, I may be a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."

Da Vid?

Can I call you Da Ve for short?

;)

:rotflmao:

They also want to get rid of the Golden Gate Bridge and instead have a Peace Tree placed in the middle of the bay there. Somehow, make a concrete slab with the center filled with dirt and have a huge tree planted in there. I guess people will have to stand in line to hang themselves since there won't be a bridge to jump off anymore.

They also want to get rid of the Golden Gate Bridge and instead have a Peace Tree placed in the middle of the bay there. Somehow, make a concrete slab with the center filled with dirt and have a huge tree planted in there. I guess people will have to stand in line to hang themselves since there won't be a bridge to jump off anymore.
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A Peace center? :rolleyes:. Alcatraz holds a lot of history and I wish they'd leave things alone since many people still like visiting and learning about Alcatraz.

A Peace center? :rolleyes:. Alcatraz holds a lot of history and I wish they'd leave things alone since many people still like visiting and learning about Alcatraz.
It's a joke sweetie. TJL makes these funny ass threads now and then. ;)

It's a joke sweetie. TJL makes these funny ass threads now and then. ;)

Um, actually, this is a real news story.

I wish I could make up stuff like this.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0465051020080205?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

Um, actually, this is a real news story.

I wish I could make up stuff like this.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0465051020080205?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
:faint: OMFRIGGIN'GOD!!!!!!! :eek:


How preposterous. :mad:


Still, it sounds like something you'd make up Todd. :lol:

that is so ********. that is one of the sites that makes san francisco so famous. and it's a big tourist spot/money spot. hopefully they leave it alone. they better.

plus, everytime i go to sf the tours are booked for alcatraz so i wanted to try to visit this summer. lol.

Yeah, you need to book like 5 months in advance or sooner. We went to SF for the third time and we only got to see it from the pier, but still the history it holds is enough to warrant NEVER destroying it. Why else do they think people who go to SF want to see it so bad?

Tell Da vid he can build his peace centre in Iraq, now theres a place that could use it! :lol:

Yeah, you need to book like 5 months in advance or sooner. We went to SF for the third time and we only got to see it from the pier, but still the history it holds is enough to warrant NEVER destroying it. Why else do they think people who go to SF want to see it so bad?

yeah. my best friend & i were thinking of getting tour tickets in april/may and going sometime in july. i agree...it's got way too much history. destroying it would be a shame.

That's a good idea.
Send all the peaceniks over to Alcatraz, where they belong.;)