Over on Apesma's Lament, Tim Harris -- speaking entirely for himself, ha! -- calls upon Greg Nickels and the city to stop the secret homeless sweeps that have been going on. (See also Swept Clean, but Still Dirty, in the Oct. 31 Real Change.) I already complained about the policy in this week's Adventures in Irony, but reading about it further in Tim's blog got my ire up again, and I wrote this comment, which I'm reproducing here just for the record.
"The fact that this is being done without the knowledge of CEH doesn't relieve them of one iota of culpability. They created the atmosphere.
Greg Nickels belongs in jail for doing this at all. The fact that he has been doing this secretly means he's that much more of a crook. He compounds a crime against humanity with a crime against the open government we are entitled to. He has proved that his contempt for the rights of homeless people extends to an equal contempt for the rights of all the residents of Seattle to know what their government is doing in their names.
Nickels must be recalled."
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