Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Mean!
It looks like the only thing being rescinded for the City Council is their mean letter to the Marine recruiters. From the Daily Cal letter by Betty Olds and Laurie Capitelli:
In a completely separate action, the Berkeley City Council granted fee waivers for permits to an organization actively protesting the Marine Corps office. To grant a privilege to one group while actively seeking to eliminate the legal presence of another is discriminatory and contrary to our longstanding support of free speech. In retrospect, the City Council should have considered the impact such an action would have on the rights of free speech and expression for all citizens. These rights must be paramount and must be preserved and protected for all of us. Note that they aren't actually trying to reverse granting those privileges, nor are they changing their policy of seeking to eliminate the legal presence of the recruiting center, so I dunno how their letter squares with their actions.
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