By John W. Lillpop
Over 44 years ago, a smash hit titled, ‘Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair,’ was recorded to welcome people to San Francisco, billed as a city of gentle people with flowers in their hair and love in their hearts.
The lyrics included:
If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
Fast forward to the night of August 20, 2011, where the San Francisco 49ers hosted their mortal enemies from across the Bay, the Oakland Raiders, in a pre-season game of FootBrawl at Candlestick Park, the mostly ungodly venue for entertainment in all of America, possibly the world.
As reported at the reference, this ‘sporting event’ featured plenty of thugs and guns, but nary a sign of any ‘gentle people with flowers in their hair’:
SAN FRANCISCO — A man wearing a shirt slamming the San Francisco 49ers was seriously wounded as gunfire erupted in the parking lot after the team's NFL preseason game, while another man sustained lesser injuries in an earlier shooting, police said.
The violence occurred after the 49ers' 17-3 victory Saturday night over the Oakland Raiders at Candlestick Park, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
A 24-year-old man was treated at San Francisco General Hospital for life-threatening injuries, and a 20-year-old man was hospitalized with less serious wounds, Andraychack told The Associated Press. Their names were not released.
Police Sgt. Frank Harrell said that in Saturday's attack the 24-year-old man, who was wearing a T-shirt referring to the 49ers with an obscenity, was shot two to four times in the stomach, according to reports in the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. He drove his truck to a gate and stumbled to security, Harrell said.”
Reached at Pier 39 where she was registering illegal aliens to vote Democrat in 2012, former Shrieker of the House Nancy Pelosi parlayed the shootings into a plea for more and stricter gun control laws.
Pelosi said:
This is a wake-up call for our community and for all of America. We must pass and enforce stricter gun control laws to offset the awful influence that right-wing radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage have on vulnerable (and beer-blasted) sports fans.
Many thanks to Pelosi for making a relatively simple matter a mind-bogging mess!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/21/sports/main20095097.shtml?utm_medium=hellotxt
