Thanks for the link, Shawn, it'd be interesting to know who Ms. Thomas was referring to when she mentioned the city's House Negroes.
A question for both Shawn Lewis and Michelle Gross: Given Mayor Rybak's deplorable record so far regarding police-community relations, who would you support for Mayor if early elections were called this year for Mayor as well as City Council Representatives? In this forum last week there was a lot of speculation that Peter McLaughlin was interested in running against the Mayor. Is he a viable candidate for those wishing to address police brutality? "The law should not imitate nature, the law should improve nature. People invented the law to govern their relationships. The law determins who we are and how we live. We either observe it or break it. People are free. Their freedom is limited only by the freedom of others. Punishment means revenge. In particular when it aims to harm, but it does not prevent a crime. For whom does the law avenge? In the name of the innocent? Do the innocent make the rules?"--Krzysztof Kieslowki, <The Decalogue, Part 5: Thou Shalt Not Kill> 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
