LETTER: Don't infringe on my rights
Mon, 02/02/2015
I take a regular walk from my home on S.W. 185th in Normandy Park and walk north toward Burien until I reach 5 Corners and then I turn around and walk back home. It's about 3 miles. Right now there is a re-vote on a Highline School District #401 bond issues Proposition's 1 and 2. Now on my walk I see signs for both "Yes on Prop. 1 and 2" and "No on Prop. 1 and 2". These signs were up and down that stretch of 1st Ave. S/S.W. and on both sides of the road. They would be placed side by side, one not crowding or obscuring the other and peace reigned. Well apparently not for some individual who didn't agree with some people's 1st Amendment right to place a sign that said "Vote No on Propositions 1 and 2" along 1st Avenue. They tore up, knocked down and destroyed, and/or threw these signs over an embankment that runs along the west side of 1st Avenue S.W. They, of course, didn't touch any of the "Vote Yes for Propositions 1 and 2" signs. My fellow Americans, this is an example a very poor citizenship and lack of respect for other points of view. Vote how ever you like but don't infringe on my rights or the rights of others. signed: Richard B. Ellenberger, 149 S.W. 185th, Normandy Park, WA 98166, 206-293-2770
