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Submitted by Rick on Mon, 08/29/2005 - 10:05pm.
The Tri-City Herald doesn't think much of Olympia's NFZ ordinance:
It's an almost textbook case of textbook liberalism in the extreme.

[snip]

Of course, constituents might have been even happier if the council stuck to fixing roads, keeping up parks and enforcing meaningful ordinances that would actually do something to benefit the city.

Nor does the Olympian Editorial Page:
Olympia is now a nuclear-free zone. Big deal! When will the Olympia City Council stop wasting its time and the public's money on meaningless, unenforceable ordinances that have little direct impact on the lives of community residents?

And a bit of advice from a letter to the editor of the Tacoma News Tribune:
Re: “No nukes here – council votes to keep out all related materials
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Editorials Portray America as Insensitive Bully

To those editorialists:

I am saddened by your lack of understanding and perception of the fine nuance involved in the charter of this fine Nuclear Free Zone Act.

Perhaps some day, those in the future will look back and forgivingly brush off the critics of the peace movement with the understanding of how fear can penetrate and permeate - then fester in the core of the human being. They will praise those who worked for peace.

TJ Johnson, and other men and women like him, courageous, brave spirits who have the better interests and health of the people at heart will be regarded fondly...

That is assuming humans don't blast themselves off the face of the earth first.

Terror Alert Level

Terror Alert Level

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Hope

Yes, the opinions expressed do not seem to consider the responsibility of policy makers to create sane and reasonable policies that promote our understanding and respect of our environs and humanity that make our world a safer place. Without policies such as this, it is certain disaster in our ecological, psychological and spiritual domains.

With this policy I have hope that our local policy makers might effect successful and integrated change that will lead this community towards wholeness and harmony.

I urge the editorialists to try to understand that ultimately this policy promotes peace to all. All real change begins at home, and I'm proud that my home community leaders get that. Another reason why Olympia is a great place to live.

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Really, the opinions expresse

Really, the opinions expressed in those editorials are near the height of farsical. Comparing Nuclear Weapons with Nuclear Medicine? Puhlease! Can someone tell me when it became okay to express an idiot's logic in a news paper editorial?

Maybe it would be better to ask, when will it become unacceptable to express such tremendously inane ideas! Don't get me wrong here - I am all for the first amendment - but it's gotta make sense too.

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