The Pat Answer.
By Jim Conley • Mar 17th, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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At tomorrow’s selectmen’s meeting, Brookline Police Chief Danniel O’Leary will, “appear to review the updated Police Department Rules & Regulations/Policies & Procedures and 2007 Crime Statistics and 2007 Race/ Gender Data Report.” [I guess he's not going to wait for the policy review panel he helped assemble to issue its report before he reviews the updated procedures.]
The panel is a farce and O’Leary doesn’t have enough respect for the con to pretend it matters to him.
Speaking of pretending…
I’m often asked why Brookline — with its Liberal credentials — has been unresponsive, indeed obstructive, in hearing Arthur Conquest’s appeals for due process. I give the same answer every time — our local libertarians (read: Liberals) are interested only in telling others how short they’ve fallen from the promise of civil rights.
To admit that there is a race problem in Brookline is to make suspect all the sanctimony and prescriptions our Liberals have thrust upon the great unwashed. Yes, racial discrimination happened in their own backyard. But best to pretend otherwise, rather than having to answer the question: “Where were you?”
Somewhere else, I suppose, is a better response than nowhere.
Update: And to those who write in to cast me as a conservative, save it. I reject ideologies in preference for ideas. God save us from the rigid ideologues — on both the left and the right.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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Some liberals in Brookline so function 24/7. Then we have the limosine liberals that get involved with the really big national issues at Town Meeting in their spare time, their Brookline political social environment. We also have some liberals whose day jobs focus upon civil rights of individuals but who revert to local political group think when they come home to their protected Brookline cocoons after a hard day at the office (usually outside of Brookline). Brookline liberals should not lose sight of the individual who may be denied civil rights in our Town.