MEANWHILE, IN TOLERANT, GROOVY NORTH BEACH

A gallery owner is beaten and run out of town for anti-Iraq War art in her place. My message to the SFPD - catch the clowns who did this, or leave the station quietly and let the nice fellas from the Mob have your office. 'Cause if this can go down here, you're obviously not in charge.

[It's the repeated attacks that make this so distressing. I was frankly amazed at how mild the painting in question was to provoke this reaction - (it's interesting that a painting caused the reaction, and I think it has something to do with a painting being a real thing, a hanging immutable argument before your eyes.) Freedom means the ability to practice freedom, to speak and make in substance, in choice. Fascism is brewing in the hearts of these thugs, and they need to be stopped. -FSL