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right, yeah. Remember open hand. Well, about two weeks ago we approached the Mayor's offices are certainly very far out that his proposals, such as dedicating Alcatraz Island tomorrow. If you want to live in a particular kind of city,

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it's your responsibility to make it that way. That actually There will be some kind of creative alternatives has to even leave their desk in this office. They don't have to sweep one street. I just asked him to take his mask off and he ran away when

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the police went up and he says, this is a fantasy and I have a right to conceal my identity. And I said, you have no right to take the mask off under this Section of 6 50 a of the penal code, which makes it a misdemeanor

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for any person on any street or highway or other public place or view open to the general public to have his face partially or completely concealed by means of a mask or other regalia of paraphernalia with intent to conceal his identity? How do you happen to

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find that obscure law? Because I'm a good judge. What we're asking is free parks and free streets and free fears the poor people, brown people, yellow people, black people can attend. We're not asking that he give us anything. We're not asking that anybody else's food stamps

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be given to us or anybody else's surplus food be given to us all. We're asking is that what there is to spare what can be obtained from the federal government be given us in order that we can give it to other people. I do not speak

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for the mayor man. In this particular case, the mayor will have to speak for himself. In this particular instance. Today's activity on City Hall steps might be passed over as just another springtime hippie episode that gave city employees a welcome respite from their

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chores. But hippie spokesmen say they'll be back again when Mayor Alioto gets back to town and the summer promises a huge influx of young people to the Haight Ashbury district. Ben Williams, reporting for eyewitness news from City Hall. Mhm.