Friday, November 11, 2005

San Francisco: Fair Game

Terrifying news: thanks to our votes against military recruiting and handguns, we in San Francisco no longer enjoy the powerful personal protection of Bill O'Reilly:

"You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds,' " O'Reilly said Tuesday on his radio show as San Franciscans were approving the two measures. Perhaps, he didn't realize that he'd be speaking mostly to foreign tourists and suburbanites if he were standing in Union Square.

"Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead," O'Reilly went on. "And if al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."
Given that O'Reilly's vigilant protection has been the only thing standing between America and terrorist Armageddon, I feel suddenly very vulnerable. I'm surprised we haven't already been bombed into oblivion by the Islamofascists.