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. ...