Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for that little pearl of wisdom.

A great article on this controversy is here, entitled “Toledo to Marines: Drop dead”

We read:

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.

Gee, isn’t that a shame?

Yeah, it is.

Lance Corporal Brandon Bukrey-McCarty recalled how useful such training was when he had been deployed in Fallujah in 2006-2007. The training, he said, “got me used to looking up on rooftops, looking around every alley, every open door.”

Too bad, Brandon! Carty Finkbeiner thinks having U.S. soldiers in town will frighten the voters, so your comrades will just have to do without that training.

They won’t have to do without it, they’ll just find somewhere else. The point is, it cost the marines $10,000. Finkbeiner and Toledo should at the very least-pay the Marines back for this SNAFU.

Mayor Finkbeiner can boast on his official website that Tony Packos Restaurant in Toledo was “made famous on the television show M*A*S*H.” But when he has an opportunity to help the men and women who in real life protect this country, including the City of Toledo, he refuses to grant them the sort of permit he would routinely give to a bunch of anti-American activists who wanted to organize a protest march down Main Street. I think it’s disgusting. If I lived in Toledo, I’d be wondering when Carty Finkbeiner was up for re-election and would look forward to sending him out on a 6:00 p.m. bus at the earliest opportunity.

AMEN to that!

Previous, here.

This is similar to what’s happened in Berkeley-attempting to throw out the Marine Recruiting office- and I think deserves a similar response.

Others Covering this:

Michelle Malkin

The Jawa Report

Wizbang

Blackfive

The Strata-Sphere

Bizzy Blog

Atlas Shrugs

LGF

Right Truth

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