Good thing for Jerry McDermott that City Hall is built like a fortress
Because the soon-to-be-ex City Councillor apparently finds the First Amendment rights to assemble and petition government too risky for elected officials. Harold M. Clemens reports on a summer-jobs rally outside City Hall yesterday by United Youth and Youth Workers of Boston:
... City Councilor McDermott described a peaceful rally the UYYW staged outside of City Hall Thursday as "urban terrorism." Obviously, brown people gathered together to protest how their own tax dollars are spent are identical in spirit and quality to other brown people who crash planes into buildings to murder innocent civilians. Or, maybe in his mind, sand monkeys and monkeys look alike. ...
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gathered together to protest
gathered together to protest how their own tax dollars are spent
How their tax dollars are spent? THEIR tax dollars???
No, they want to protest for how other people's, tax dollars are spent.
I'm not excusing McDermott's behavior, but let's not kid ourselves on the tax dollars being spent.
What makes you think they don't pay taxes?
I filed income tax returns when I was 16; I bet lots of teenagers do. And who doesn't pay sales taxes?
And even if not their very
And even if not their very own tax dollars, their parents and siblings probably pay taxes.