I hate replying to misrepresentations of my views - it means repeating myself all over again. I suggest Jim and Craig go back and read what I actually wrote. It's not fascistic to want to live in peace but fascism can arise when public authorities refuse to provide vital protective services and instead devote their energies to bicyclists, environmentalists, poets and mentally ill. A demagogue like Craig can easily fill the void.
Those of us who can move, like Dyna, will but many of us are stuck. If it takes five years of wandering the maze of city "services" to make one's block habitable, we're going to grab any shortcut we can. The landlord just happens to be the weak link. Everyone else (especially the cops) can just blow us off. And it's still not much of a shortcut; as Dyna notes her problem landlord still has a license and continues to be oblivious to the misery he facilitates day in and out. I suggest Craig leave his nice quiet suburb (he doesn't say where he lives now but I'll bet it's not the inner city) and see how the other half lives. Linda Mann Kingfield _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
