Maybe that’s a bit much, but this report from the Dallas Morning News seems to indicate that the city’s municipal officials may have lost sight of the big picture:
The U.S. Army combats war-mongering regimes and vile dictatorships per course. But even the world’s mightiest force can’t fight Dallas City Hall. Several Army recruiters learned as much Tuesday after finding five of their vehicles immobilized with metal boots by Dallas city parking services workers…. So without wheels, a half-dozen soldiers marched from their cars near downtown’s Union Station straight to the offices of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and City Manager Mary Suhm. Several city employees recounted that the befuddled soldiers requested meetings. They demanded answers. They argued that they had important places to go, and now, couldn’t get there. The city’s response? Give us our cash, and we’ll give you your cars.
Go read the whole thing. On the one hand, I’m bothered by the fact that cops, government officials, and, of course, diplomats, needn’t bother with the pesky traffic laws that, when violated, cost the rest of us hundreds of dollars in fines. But a Marine friend of the WWS writes in with a completely legitimate gripe over this:
in the middle of a f*&%ing war and crucial recruiting drive…:”everybody’s got to pay their tickets”
By all accounts, recruiters have one of the toughest jobs in the United States military, so it would be nice if, at least in troop-friendly states like Texas, they were cut a little slack now and then. Don’t you know there’s a war on?
