Keith,
I will look up your messages and Jim Graham's
messages in the Archives.
No one has disputed my argument that people who
want to build a movement against police brutality
would be better off with a white male outsider.
Appointing an African-American chief would have the
effect of weakening the anti-police brutality movement
because an African-American chief would be much harder
to criticize.
I belive the Mayor's goal are to:
1. To work on solving the problem of police
brutality and racial profiling.
2. To put the issue to rest.
I believe that the McManus appointment is likely to
have the opposite effect of what the Mayor intends.
I believe that police brutality and racial
profiling are real problems. I also belive that police
brutality is a Pandora's box of an issue and that
opening it up makes the city less safe, not more safe.
I remember the early 90's and I don't want to go
back to those days!
I do get carried away sometimes.
Ed Fesler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis
Corcoran
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 12/24/03 7:27:38 AM Pacific
> Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> <<
> Maybe my poetic license will be suspended after
> this analogy.
>
> Supporters of this wacky new Administration say
> that all American officers are tainted by
> complicity
> in war crimes and imperialist adventures.
>
> Of course, there are many reasons why my analogy
> is
> impossible, absurd.
>
>
> Ed Fesler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis
> >>
>
>
> Keith says; But, where you actually take, and abuse,
> "license" , is in your
> (non)analogy's National scope. The license you
> should lose is that you believe
> you can/should post non-Mpls.specific posts on this
> List. No poetic license
> was taken. Your device was a ham-handed method for
> purveying Anti-American
> drivel on The List.
>
> Many folks factually expressed reasons for
> displeasure with Lubinski and
> Gerold. I, for one, against Gerold. Jim Graham, for
> two. If you are new, and you
> missed it, research The Archive, it is fascinating.
>
> Keith Reitman NearNorth
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