Posted on 03/31/2008 7:48:30 AM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
PRESERVING Boston Common should mean much more than keeping the grass green ("Large events may become uncommon at city's beloved park," Page B1, March 20). The Common was America 's very first public grounds and the city should not regulate away the right of the people to assemble peaceably there for the sake of a greener lawn. If greener grass is what the city wants, they can achieve that by not allowing dogs to urinate on the grounds. Boston Parks Department maintenance people have told anyone who asks that dog urine, not peaceable assemblies, is what damages the grass most.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
"If not for MassCann/Norml, sponsors of the rally, and the ACLU of Massachusetts, the right to assemble on Boston Common would have been effectively prohibited years ago."
About Thomas Jefferson: "A slur upon the moral government of the world."
About Thomas Paine: "...such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf, never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind to run through such a career of mischief."
Not off topic at all: the right of The People should not be infringed to:
1) Party.
2) Bare Arms.
3) Party.
4) Shoot off their guns.
5) Publish a free press.
6) Shoot their newspapers.
7) Party.
8) Party.
9) Party.
10) Parte’.
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