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Update on Lakefair warships visit - according to Lakefair, there is an offer from other jurisdictions, including Thurston County Sheriff's Office, to provide security (since Olympia won't provide it), but they need permission from the City of Olympia to cross their jurisdictional lines. Thurston County police cannot just come into the port, apparently, and provide security without approval of the City of Olympia. - I invited Teri Chmielewski, current Lakefair President, on the show to talk about it.

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I'm surprised I'm just now hearing about this (via email):

At the Tuesday July 2nd Health Care forum in the Olympia Community Center, the Olympian newspaper and the Olympia police department jointly violated the 1st Amendment by excluding people handing out leaflets or carrying signs from the hallways of the Olympia center -- a public building in which the Olympian had rented rooms, but not the entire facility. As an 85 year old woman, I was one of the people prevented from handing out brochures inside the building.

This Tuesday the Olympia City Council will clarify whether it is public policy in Olympia to honor free speech rights of the people on the people's property. What we want to make sure of is that no new policy is passed caging free speech rights into small "free speech zones", and excluding from everywhere outside those small obscure zones.  From what I understand, the city is considering requiring public events renting city facilities to offer a literature table where anyone may place information.
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A quick look at the council's agenda for Tuesday night doesn't show anything relating to the above, but that doesn't mean folks can show up and ask the council for a little light on the subject.

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"Arizona Cardinals Safety Pat Tillman turned down a lucrative contract with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals to join the Army following the Sept. 11 attacks. He was killed April 22, 2004, by friendly fire in Afghanistan.."

"Although Pentagon investigators determined quickly that he was killed by his own troops, five weeks passed before the circumstances of his death were made public. During that time, the Army claimed he was killed by enemy fire.."

"Tillman's family and others have said they believe the erroneous information peddled by the Pentagon was part of a deliberate cover-up that might have reached all the way to President Bush and then-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.."

"lawmakers investigating how and when the Bush administration learned the circumstances of Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death and how those details were disclosed accused the White House and Pentagon of withholding key documents and renewed their demand for the material.."

"The White House and Defense Department have turned over nearly 10,000 pages of papers -- mostly press clippings -- but the White House cited "executive branch confidentiality interests" in refusing to provide other documents.."