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Audacity of Truth
Toledo mayor: Marines who want to “play war” aren’t welcome in his city
Via NBC24:
TOLEDO, OH — Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.
The mayor’s spokesperson, Brian Schwartz said, “The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people. He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area.”
Toledo police said they knew about the training and had approved the unit’s use of the Madison Building and the Promenade Park area. The training was scheduled to start Friday afternoon and last until Sunday. Police said the unit’s presence would have a minimal impact on the city. Police issued a press release earlier in the week saying the Marines would be wearing green camouflage uniforms, operate military vehicles, carry rifles, perform foot patrols, and fire blank ammunition during the exercise.
Schwartz said there was a breakdown in communication between police and the Finkbeiner administration that led to the mayor’s action.
“The Marines drilled here three times during the Ford administration and once under the Finkbeiner administration. After the last visit, the mayor told then police Chief Jack Smith, that he did not want the marines back. Smith failed to inform the current police administration of the mayor’s feelings” Schwartz said.
NBC24 spoke to Jack Smith who recalled that after the Marines last visit, he and the mayor had a heated exchange about the training.
“He told me he did not want them, as he put it, ‘playing war in Toledo,’” Smith recalled. “I told him, as a former Marine, that if one young Marine’s life is saved because of training he or she received in Toledo, Ohio, then it was worth the inconvenience.”
What is missing from this article? Oh yes – the mayor’s political affiliation. He is, of course, a Democrat.
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Next crisis, do not expect any help Mayor.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Traitors, every one.
You know, what the hell was the point of joining the military to defend these BASTARDS? In return for our service we get walked on. In return for our service, cowards want to flee from battle as we are winning it because they are too weak to take the heat. Well these sons of bitches aren’t taking the heat, the Men and Women of the Armed Forces are.
No one expects monuments or, these days, a simple thank you. We just want to do the job thats set before us and not have the sacrifices that millions of my brothers and sisters of bleed and died over the centuries, discarded.
Not forgotten; discarded as trivial.
Hi, remember me.
Bet ya didn’t know I’m from Toledo.
There’s a lot of Sturm und Drang about this, mostly from the Clear Channel GOP surrogates here in the area trying to make a mountain out of a molehill — and judging by the response here, it’s working.
Traitors indeed. Wow, just wow. I got news for you, if a republican had issued a memo that they should move the war games out of the central business district during Friday rush hour to a more convenient, less disruptive and appropriate venue, there would BE no story.
The only reason you even know about this is because they’re looking to bash a democrat. Period.
Well done, you’re a useful tool.
Mark the liar wrote, “if a republican had issued a memo that they should move the war games out …”
Nope. We call our own out every time.
You can see a pattern here of free dialog where we disagree with Bush, McCain, or any other Republican who seems to not get facts right or make opinions that do not seem reasonable.
Calling ST a useful tool earns you low grade status in my book. I’ve not agreed with everything ST writes but never questioned her motives. She’s a good person who has the right to see things the way she does.