Vigilantes in the Mission: What was Ammiano thinking?

Vigilantes in the Mission: What was Ammiano thinking?

Real solutions to crime and violence, not PR campaigns that may cost lives
By Lucrecia Bermúdez


The move of Tom Ammiano toward the center of the political spectrum amid his growing desperation to be elected to a fourth term as Supervisor seems to have no end in sight. His latest escapade consists of bringing a group of controversial vigilantes misnamed “Guardian Angels” to patrol Mission Street in military fatigues.

Ammiano’s rationale is the same as that of Gavin Newsom: if there is a spate of crime produced by the absence of jobs; if young people hang out in gangs because there are no sports and after school programs; if an underground drug culture flourishes because of the lack of health care treatment on demand, then the solution proposed by Ammiano and Newsom is to send in more cops.

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Saturday, September 18: Proposition F Kickoff Rally

PROPOSITION F CAMPAIGN KICKOFF RALLY

GIVE ALL PARENTS A VOICE IN SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS!

Join Parents, Youth, Elected Officials, and Other Speakers to Support San Francisco’s Students!

Saturday, September 18, 2004
6 – 9 PM
Women’s Building
3543 18th Street (between Valencia and Guerrero)
San Francisco
Info: (415) 452-9992

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Bush & Putin self-fulfilled prophesies: Slaughter and Terrorism

Frontlines Editorial Board

We are witnessing self-fulfilled prophesies. Bush orders the invasion and occupation of Iraq on bogus claims of terrorist links between Saddam and al Queda and the existence of WMDs.

Putin invades Chechnya making the bogus claim of fundamentalist terrorism against Russian civilians and the danger of WMD falling into the hands of terrorists.


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Thousands rally in Moscow for imperial revenge after Beslan tragedy

MOSCOW, Russia (Frontlines with material from Reuters, AFP and AP)- An estimated 130,000 Russians massed outside the Kremlin to say no to terror after the Beslan school hostage tragedy, as families pressed on with an agonizing search for loved ones still missing. By all accounts, the staged rally had more to do with pushing an imperial policy on Chechnya than a funeral for those killed

A sea of people, brandishing banners and Russian flags, stood demanding revenge for the deaths of the 335 hostages and rescuers killed in the school siege and the 100 killed in plane attacks and a Moscow suicide bombing in past weeks.

The emotion sounded too manipulated to observers, and the officially approved rally was also brief and appeared choreographed, prompting unfavorable comparisons with the uninhibited outpouring of grief seen in Spain after the March 11 attacks. People were not demanding a withdrawal from Chechnya to end the carnage, they were crying for revenge.


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