WHAT HAPPENED TO FREE SPEECH AT SEATTLE CENTER?
Dear Editor: What is going on in Seattle? As far as I know, citizen activists still have the right to gather signatures for a city-wide initiative. But I see the city of Seattle preventing citizens from signing Initiative I-46, which would repeal the ban on free speech and music posters.
Tim Crowley of Free Speech Seattle has civil rights, despite what the city thinks ["Banishment Number 1," Ben Jacklet, July 22]. The Seattle Center has historically been a popular place for petitioning and for free speech. Politicians are allowed to hold rallies and shake hands with the public at public events.
They should never have harassed him. I feel that they are doing it so that his organization will have a much harder time gathering enough valid signatures. This is crazy!
Darral Good, Lynnwood