[lbo-talk] Re: Margolis: Why There is No WMD Outrage

Shane Taylor s-t-t at juno.com
Wed Jun 18 21:59:57 PDT 2003


Jenny Brown wrote:
> Of course, in dealing with City Council types, you
> do need to give them nice words to say about why
> they're doing this. "I'm voting for this cause all
> these people are packing the council meeting and
> I want them to go away" might be the real reason,
> but soothing platitudes about constitutional rights
> and, if possible, saving the City money, are always
> a good bet.

Very true.


> We were able to get our County to pass an
> anti-PATRIOT Act resolution last year and they
> accompanied it with an instruction to staff, to deal
> with the gag provision, that if any County employee
> was contacted for information pursuant to the Act he
> or she should immediately contact the County Atty.
> On the theory that there's still such a thing as
> atty-client privilege. Are you trying to get that in
> there somewhere?

No, unfortunately. Basically it foreswears discrimination, restates the Bill of Rights, calls for unbiased policing, requests the Feds disclose detainees, etc. It requires a warning to be posted by local libraries that the Feds may peruse your reading lists. The lawyer who drew this up (not the lawyer I mentioned) said he reviewed some of the successful resolutions and modeled ours on theirs. They want to offer as passable a resolution as possible right up front, rather than push for more and negotiate along the way. And since I'm moving to San Antonio this Saturday, I'll have to watch from afar. I don't know of any effort down in San Antonio to push such a resolution through.

-- Shane

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