🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Chris wrote:

> Right, no one should go to this rally.  These idiotic people need to
> grow up and get along.  I would like to think that society and
> especially Cleveland has gotten past these hillbilly views and can come
> together as one growing metropolis but obviously Mayor White doesn't see
> it like that.  I really feel he let this city down by not fighting
> harder against having such a moronic thinig like a KKK rally.  I realize
> there was not much he could do but it seems like he almost is acting for
> them at times.
> 
> Chris

The KKK aplied for their permit a while ago and like ANY other group
they do have the right to free speach.  I personaly may not agree with
their views, but if you start blocking their right to meet then you
are the begining of being able to block any group you do not like.
(Look at the case of Berea shutting down a web site because they
made comments the Mayor Trupo did not like.)  
George Forbes on the other hand is only fanning the flames of this
fiasco to get back at his political opponent.  Notice how he decided
to have a music fesitval ONLY AT THE LAST MINUTE.  Then when Cleveland
tells him to have the festival but not right next to the clan, but here
are 6 other sites you can use he cries foul, we are being treated like
second class citizens.  What good can come out of having an opposing
group show up, stretching the police coverage even further.  I am
not against a music festival, I am not against black people, I AM
against the KKK.  But to me what Forbes and the NAACP are doing is
on the same level as the KKK.  I fear that if they show up they
will be manipulated by the clansmen into doing something stupid
that will have repurcussions long after the KKK leave.
Mayor White should be commended for trying to keep things as
sane as possible and look after the safety of the citizens of
Cleveland.  Mayor White should take the blame though for antagonizing
the police dept. before that and for not requesting the help he
needed the right way.
Or as they do in the Friday PD:

JEERS: To Forbes for using the rally as way of getting back at
his old political enimy Mike White.

CHEERS: To Mayor White for trying to look after the saftey of
the Clevelanders and not being bated into letting yet another
group downtown on the 21st.

JEERS: To the media for blowing up the KKK Rally out of proportion
and not letting the flame die down (PD included)

BIG JEERS: To the KKK for their racist litany of hate.

CHEERS: To the Browns for finally coming home to Cleveland.

CHEERS: To all the Police, Peecekeepers, Aux. Police and others
who will be downtown on the 21st trying to keep trouble from starting.

JEERS: To White for not getting the help of the Police
and others the right way.  Insted he has made his own
remarks about racism in the dept. and made matters worse.






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