European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 columns comments Carl Rowan America has Fiffie of fear from attorney general Edwin Meese who won confirmation Only by the skin of his now seems determined to become the most ubiquitous of All this nations attorneys he is giving speeches suggesting that he wants to be inside the supreme court As a ghostly conscience so it will no longer roam at Large in a veritable constitutional Forest or make More of what he Calls bizarre this attorney general wants to be an omnipresent Friend of the telling it when it is legitimately interpreting the and when it is making so Cial Meese wants inside where couples make decisions about having a and then doctors offices where women Are counselled on whether to have an abortion that after he has con Vinced supreme court justices to permit states to outlaw the once embattled confidant of presi Dent Reagan wants inside the nation telling teachers How much prayer and religious teachings Are Compa Tible with the separation of Church and and in a speech in he has suggested that he wants to be in americas gently advising editors and television executives As to what they ought not print or broadcast during the next or i can understand messes Lon Don pretences of he was merely endorsing the inanities of British prime minister Margaret who said the Media must starve terrorists of the oxygen of publicity on which they it would have been impolite for Meese to ask whether Thatcher thinks the bomb planters and other terrorists in the Irish Republican army Are motivated by something More profound than a desire for it would have been for Meese to ask Why Thatcher Hast been Able to starve the both Meese and Thatcher Are among those frustrated officials unable to Deal with want to make an unfettered press the Meese George will will never get american editors to let him dilute their constitutional will the supreme court yield to Meese and turn the question of abortion rights Over to the states even the most conservative Justice knows what that would mean women in states with Liberal Legislatures left with Access to Legal abortions women in conservative states de Nied pressured to undergo illegal or forced to travel to Liberal or elsewhere poor women in antiabortion unable to resorting to Bac Kalley or simply having babies that they do not and who would be out front attacking the food medicaid and other programs designed to let those unwanted children grow up in circumstances a bit better than degradation our omnipresent attorney Many of us who opposed Confirma Tion of Meese did so in expectation of his social we were appalled when he became the nations chief Law enforcement but there Are bless Ings in the fact that Meese is leading the he lacks the reputation and the skills needed to bring his draconian dreams to not one member of the supreme court thinks Meese knows More about the Constitution than he or she hardly an editor in the land thinks that Meese knows More than he or she about what helps or what free people Are entitled to know in Days of few americans will believe on his Meese is qualified to give them advice about prayer and so Edwin Meese 111 is an attorney Gen eral to watch but not one who should make us tremble in America Syndicate san Francisco Liberal governance in conservative Era san which is nothing if not novel in its nonchalance about Mere is pioneering a Stern new style of it is the Art of Liberal govern Ance in a conservative it does not involve govern ment spending for social but government causing private sector it is a reverberation of proposition the 1978 measure that curtailed local taxation in san Francisco Board of supervisors has declared that downtown developers must pay a onetime fee of per Square foot of floor space to finance onsite childcare facilities or As a contribution to a childcare fund to be allocated by the political this fee is piled on top of other fees for and open space for theres even a fee of 1 percent of construction costs to Purchase this last Means that a Developer of a million High Rise must pay million for if the super having legislated a monetary can just legislate a Supply of Good it is Odd the sort of people passing and applaud ing such fees Are not worshippers of Market but unless they believe that the demand for Art will magically produce a Supply of Good the fee is a Windfall for Lousy and a Way to litter Public spaces with regarding child a need of sorts nation 51 percent of mothers of children under five work outside the supervisor Nancy sponsor of the childcare notes projections that in the next 15 years new jobs will be created in downtown san it is possible to argue that child care is a social Cost of development and therefore developers ought to pay for but such an argument is problematic in the idea of social costs and in the false clarity regarding who actually child Day care is a desire of a certain category of should not the Cost of it be borne by those who desire it but developers Are an inviting target on which to displace the if the Board of super visors wants to closely associate costs and benefits for they should become really rigorous in imposing user fees parents should be made to pay the full Cost of riders the Cost of Public because such services Are understood to Benefit the Community they Are usually considered services to be paid at least in by the Community through its collective Enterprise govern but in explaining the resort to political philosophy is less relevant than a political fact proposition it limited the Public desire for or the desire of the political class to distribute Here is a proposition was produced by anger about the taxation dimension of big govern now it is producing a new Mode of governance that is aggressively intrusive and blurs the costs of government the fees levied on developers will mean higher and then higher prices of the goods and services provided by the businesses that rent space from san Francisco fees May help the toiling masses in businesses May have their head quarters in san Francisco but their labor concentrations across the bubbling behind san Francisco government Greg elation is Northern California it is an amalgam of peace posing and eco Bat there is an ordnance that no new building shall cast a Shadow on a Public Park Between one hour after sunup and one hour before if shadows Are Why not Cut Down the Trees if people do not like the attributes of cities tall build Ings the supervisors might do better by buying them bus tickets to the supervisors recently voted official support for the grape it was an action of no measurable value to the grape but was demonstrably detrimental to the persons disproportionately minorities who work in the convention several agribusiness organizations have moved their meetings else the supervisors recently voted against san Francisco being Home for the battleship the vote was without Force and the Navy ignored the supervisors rationale was that the ship might cause the soviets to make the Bay area a military presumably the soviets have not noticed the various Bay area military or Livermore the super visors did not impose a fee on the ship compensation for Wear Andrear on the water with the Money to be spent at the discretion of the Wash Noton Post writers group