Is there anyone with the authority to inform the Minneapolis Park Police that they do not have the authority to censor the distribution of political literature in the parks and that anyone who orders them to do so is ordering them to do something illegal? The Park Board comes to mind first but since they are divided four pro Gurban to three anti Gurban, I suppose a judge will have to tell them. I hope Jason Stone is successful in his suit and that the Minneapolis Park Board, the Park Police and Gurban have to pay through the nose! Meanwhile those of us who have a little extra time should consider a little civil disobedience by distributing leaflets critical of Gurban's action at any meeting on Park Board land where Gurban is likely to be. It would not really be civil disobedience since the law gives us the right to political expression in the parks and elsewhere but, if people are going to try to suppress freedom of expression, we had better come out and exercise that right while we still have it. Robert Halfhill Loring Park
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