[Nowhere Man]

I cannot support that talk. What I think we should be demanding is that our leaders, both academic and state (as well as federal) kick these students out of the university, and deport them or prosecute them for assault, verbal threats, and treason.

If our leaders continue to ignore the threat to law and order that these people present, they will indeed have to contend with the less principled among us. We will all regret it when it happens, trust me.

Where is our political leadership? Gavin Newsom, the man who could stomach any sort of twosome, the one who is preoccupied by union negotiations today, the man whose slick styles and vapid comments about morality have swept the media, what is he doing?

We are like a rudderless ship on a Sargasso Sea.

Well it looks that way. Like you I see following the law in respect to crimes committed and if need be, deportations is the true way to go. As you put it, we are like as rudderless ship with no direction and no captain with convictions. Nature abhores a vacuum so either somebody will take charge and resort to more drastic measures or more likely, you'll have independent actions with no "legal controlling authority" (fed up people acting on their own) all over the place. People can only take so much and if there is no true leadership, then there will be lot of people acting on their own like they are doing in Holland.

[risk]

Our leaders need to understand that they hold the key to upholding our laws. We have all the rules on our books we need to solve these problems. If they fail to do that, and if unprincipled people react and take the law into their own hands, the blame will lay heavily on our ineffectual mayor, the INS, the campus administration, the city police in SF, the county and state police, the district attornies involved, and the press. On the other hand, these agencies and leaders could work together to apply the laws we've discussed!