http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2012/09/19/dreamforce-2012-from-salesforce-com-turns-city-hall-blue-and-pink-gala-tonight-with-the-red-hot-chili-peppers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dreamforce-2012-from-salesforce-com-turns-city-hall-blue-and-pink-gala-tonight-with-the-red-hot-chili-peppers "If you want a vision of the future, imagine Larry Ellison eating a hot dog - forever" editor@SFCitizen.com Thu, 23 May 2013 14:47:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2012/09/19/dreamforce-2012-from-salesforce-com-turns-city-hall-blue-and-pink-gala-tonight-with-the-red-hot-chili-peppers/#comment-171750 John M. van voorthuijsen Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:29:23 +0000 http://sfcitizen.com/blog/?p=43246#comment-171750 I have been mystified the last few days by what is going on in the Civiv Center--I am a lomng time SF resident and live a few blocks from City Hall. Not in four decades have I seen such a monstrous secretive armed camp build up right on my doorstep--in a supposedly public place. When they close off several blocks for a community event like the Cinco de Mayo, St Patrick's, the Gay Parade, and the like--I don't mimnd that. But when I see a for profit corporation take over the streets and sidewalks all over the Civic Center (and practically block access to the SFPL) I am beginning to feel the same kind of resentment an inhabitant of Bagdad or Kabul might feel towards the take-over by alien military forces of their civic spaces. The corporations should stick to venues like Moscone Center--not take ove Civic Center and convert it into a vast armed camp with hundr5eds of uniformed guards and silly people with tags hanging around theor necks. Please don't doe this again. It makes me mad--NO, scrap that I AM PISSED OFF. I have been mystified the last few days by what is going on in the Civiv Center–I am a lomng time SF resident and live a few blocks from City Hall. Not in four decades have I seen such a monstrous secretive armed camp build up right on my doorstep–in a supposedly public place. When they close off several blocks for a community event like the Cinco de Mayo, St Patrick’s, the Gay Parade, and the like–I don’t mimnd that. But when I see a for profit corporation take over the streets and sidewalks all over the Civic Center (and practically block access to the SFPL) I am beginning to feel the same kind of resentment an inhabitant of Bagdad or Kabul might feel towards the take-over by alien military forces of their civic spaces. The corporations should stick to venues like Moscone Center–not take ove Civic Center and convert it into a vast armed camp with hundr5eds of uniformed guards and silly people with tags hanging around theor necks. Please don’t doe this again. It makes me mad–NO, scrap that I AM PISSED OFF.

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