Response to McNeil column

Mr. McNeil:

If anything, we need more military recruiters on our high school and college campuses! A military career is a very viable one and also a necessary one in the defense of our country.

I was not surprised that you are so adamantly against any kind of program which would result in helping defend this country. If memory serves, you were one of the cowards who high-tailed it out of this country instead of BEING A MAN and defending it during the Viet Nam war.

You sure seem to enjoy the freedoms we have but you are unwilling to defend those freedoms.

It seems that you have a problem with our military recruiting minorities like blacks and Hispanics (by the way, "Latinos" died out centuries ago....and if anyone has the right to that moniker, it is the ITALIANS!)

Military recruitment and training of minorities is the best thing to have happened to them. For the first time, they will learn DISCIPLINE! They will learn what proper behavior is all about ..... and it is not about jivin' all over the place, wearing your pants with your rear end exposed, joining criminal gangs and bringing BASTARD children into this world and going on welfare!

It's high time minorities stopped mooching off the rest of us and get their act together. Going into the military will get them off the streets. Because education is not valued by either the black or hispanic culture, these people are UNEMPLOYABLE! The military will teach them some incentive. So what if there is a possibility that the military jobs might not be transferable into the civilian sector. These people will learn how to study and they can train in trade schools when their tours of duty are over.

There was a book I saw recently, with the title, "Don't Feed the Blacks!" It was written by Ken "The Black Avenger" Hamblin, a talk show host who lives in Colorado!

In case you think I'm some old fogie from a generation with one foot on the banana peel, please be advised that I'm 23 years old and a graduate student at a top private university in this area. My ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1912, the Mexican American War, the War Between the States, World War I, World War II, Korea, Viet Nam, The Gulf War and I have two brothers currently serving in the Iraq War plus a cousin who is with Special Forces in Afghanistan. They joined the military on September 12, 2001! A third brother will finish high school in June and he has been RECRUITED to the Marine Corps and starts his basic training in July.

God bless America!

Elizabeth XXXX

Berkeley (FYI, not all people in Berkeley are idiots!)

Leonard McNeil Must go! wacked-out extremist! Doesn't represent San Pablo residents

He's written articles in Contra Costa Times telling of his hatred toward our military. Now it's time to get rid of this guy once and for all, does he really stand for San Pablo residents? Check out this shameful article HE wrote in Contra Costa Times.

I emailed Leonard McNeil, San Pablo City council. For a while there I thought I was in confession. He admitted running for Canada to avoid the draft and how he was arrested by the FBI when in San Francisco. but it came worse and worse to find out he actually supports Berkeley regarding the anti-military stance that upset so many - 93% in many polls all over the country.

Even more, he supports reparations for slavery, and to talk about waste he asked the city to investigate whether it did business with any investment firm that profited from slavery a couple of years ago. his exact quote "I asked the city to investigate whether it did business with any investment firm that profited from slavery a couple of years ago." so instead of the city management working on projects they spend days and OUR TAX MONEY investigating this.

but wait... There's more! - he really hates our military! read his quote...

"Every Memorial Day and Veterans Day I shudder because of the way that the U.S. government makes heroes and heroines out of those who sacrificed...." "McCain is touted as a hero despite dropping napalm, bombs and Agent Orange from the jet he was flying before he was shot down. "

He even joined them in CUBA! More quotes from him!

"I have a ring that was given to me for being an exemplary worker when I helped build homes in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. It was made from a U.S. jet that was shot down in Vietnam. I look at it sometimes and wonder about the lives that were lost because of the jet.

Plus he intends to pass the same thing Berkeley passed! another quote!

"I am working on a statement about military recruiting. "

Does this guy really represent San Pablo Residents?