David Wilson wrote:
>
> What passes for sarcasim in your post doesn't make me smile or think. I
> live 2 blocks away from the site of the massive police mobilization
> against 180 protestors. I didn't like my daily life disrupted because of
> the oxymoronic police intelligence indicated that there would be violent
> demonstrations. How would you like to have to hunt for a parking space
> because the police needed room to operate. How would you like to pass by
> hostile armed cops with guns in their hands?
>
> What was the point of your post?
I saw his point being that calls for strict enforcement of laws can
and should cut both ways. If we are to strictly enforce laws on the
poor communities, we need and should do the same on non-poor
communities. The non-poor are as guilty of committing crimes as are
the poor.
And I am glad it did not make you smile, but I am saddened that it did
not make you think. I was saddened when I thought of the inherent
hypocrisy of the many calls for greater law enforcement in "problem"
neighborhoods.
Scott McGerik
Hawthorne
Minneapolis
http://www.visi.com/~scottlm/
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