Jim, I can call anyone a thug. This is my right under the First Amendment, but as it happens, I'm only calling the majority of Minneapolis Police officers thugs, and working in the community to stop the brutal things that they do to the people that I care about.
I don't know who Sullivan is, but I'm a former city council candidate and a current law school student. Barbara Schneider (murdered by MPD 2000) was a member of my mothers congragation. Fidel Depaz, the brother of Efrain Depaz (murderd by MPD 2001) is a friend of mine and to date every encounter I've had with a street level Minneapolis police officer has been abusive and bordered on violent. I'm not rich at all, in fact, I'm usually broke, but I know the difference between right and wrong. My great-grandparents were Holocaust survivors and they grilled in to me when I was young that you do not stay silent when those you care about are brutaly mistreated. I have only refered to public individuals, (police are such) as thugs, and only police and only Minneapolis Police at that. I think most people actually agree with me, particularly on the North Side. I did call Clara Schmitt-Gonzales a control freak, and I stand by that. I myself, being on the MTN board of directors am also a public official, though I don't actually do that much. If someone tries to sue me than much of this will become a matter of public, legal record and that will only help change policies for the better. Anyway, Jackie Cherryholms already tried to sue a list member for something he said on the list and it didn't work. My neighborhood is in the middle of a contentious election and I have every right to make my views known and try to influence the policies that may result from this election if not the election itself. Tamir Nolley Holland --- Jim Mork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tamir: Sullivan protects you when you call elected > officials "thugs", but you could end up on the wrong > end of a lawsuit if you call private individuals who > just happen to have some relationship to a political > official a "thug". Just how rich ARE you, anyway? > > > -------------- > Jim Mork--Cooper > > "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those > who brought war into our Country deserve all the > curses and maledictions a people can pour out." Gen. > William T. Sherman (1864) Letter to the Mayor of > Atlanta. > > Get your free Web-based E-mail at http://www.startribune.com/stribmail __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ 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
