Mifflin Street Peace Festival
I can add another perspective to Norman Stockwell's informative letter ("Mifflin Street Mayhem," 5/17/2013).
Norm is right. Back when Paul Soglin was in his second stint as mayor, I wrote to him and suggested transforming the Mifflin Street Block Party from a beer bash to a peace festival with beer. He replied that it would just turn into a drunken bash anyway. He never asked the students if they wanted one. He just made an executive decision. I guess his was the last generation of socially responsible youth.
The world is too large to tyrannize, but it's not too large to govern. What people should be afraid of is our present world government in disaster mode.
If enough people learn how to work for peace, we might someday create the Republic of Earth.
Or maybe not.
I read in Week in Review (5/24/13) that the Legislative Fiscal Bureau has calculated that Gov. Scott Walker's rejection of federal Medicaid money will cost residents millions of dollars. If I stole this amount of money, I'd be considered a felon and unable to hold public office. Why is Walker able to get away with it and why do Republicans go along with similar ideas?