Ironic talk, coming from a community that actively participates in some attacks against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

You speak of the First Amendment and freedom of speech, yet your support of "hate speech" legislation is an attack upon those same things.

While we're on the Bill of Rights, how about that Second Amendment? What part of "shall not be infringed" dont you understand?

You speak of the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", yet every time someone poor and non-white sticks out their hand, you call for more armed robbery.. I'm sorry, "taxation".. of your favorite enemy - "the rich". (And then years later we see that, once again, all you've really accomplished is to raise taxes for the middle class again.)

I'm all for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but Santa Cruz is far too selective about when they stand for liberty, versus when they stand for communism and mob rule.

I see all around town bumper stickers about schools having all the money they need and the military holding bake sales.

How about individuals having all the money we need by letting us KEEP OUR MONEY, and the military, welfare, government-run schools, and every other government charity program holding bake sales?

As for freedom of speech, I'll believe it when you'll allow David Duke's "My Awakening" to sit on the public library shelf next to Marx & Engel's "Communist Manifesto".

Not that Im any fan of either's works, but freedom is about tolerating that with which we DONT agree. That's the lesson you have yet to learn.

I'm not saying you HAVE to respect the entire US Constitution. You can agree with some parts and disagree with others.

But if you dont support the document in its entirety, it is self-serving hypocrisy for supposed anti-authoritarians to invoke the authority of the Constitution as a whole only whenever it suits your current purpose.

Truth-in-advertising, that's all I ask. Dont pretend to be something you're not.