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Well, I went to the meeting, and you'll be happy to know that the resolution did NOT got through! The left had brought out their usual gang, including a group of high-school students organized, no doubt, by a teacher (I say this because all of them came from only one of our local high schools, and their appearance seemed to have been pre-arranged with the woman who had presented the resolution). The opponents of the resolution were, on the other hand, mostly individuals, ranging from wives of servicemen to attorneys worried about the constitutional issues to people like me, who simply thought the whole thing stank. The local Republican party chairman also showed up and was extremely eloquent and intelligent in his opposition to the resolution- and also reminded the City Council members that voters would be watching them on this one!

What the City Council finally decided to do was to pretend the resolution had never happened. They neither rejected it nor affirmed it, and instead voted on an alternate resolution simply stating that the "Peace Coalition" had presented their opinions and that these had been duly entered into the record of the meeting, and that neither the citizens of Gainesville nor the individual Council members could be assumed to agree with the contents of their presentation.

So I think we came out on top, especially after the one of the anti-resolution council members pointed out that any other groups (including those supporting Bush) would be free to enter their own statement in the record. So I'm going to call the Republican party chairman tomorrow and tell him to start working on a statement.

I was really pleased to see how many good, well-spoken and determined Americans, including college students, showed up to refuse to let the left get away with this nonsense.