What would make this city so much nicer is more booze related litter and people walking around drunk.

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Yeah, now get your sign out of our faces.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/1396266205/

"So plants can grow"

Was this sign perhaps located in a part of the sculpture park where the ill-chosen plants have already met their demise?

http://www.city-data.com/top2/co4.html

And if you have any doubt as to the intent of that particular amendment, I would also direct you to the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence, wherein it states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, that among these are life, liberty and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" (emphasis mine).

This is of course directly attributable to the influence of Benjamin Franklin, who, when not risking arrest by the British Colonial Army for penning skreeds against the Crown under one of his various pseudonyms, observed, "Beer is living proof that GOD loves us and wants us to be HAPPY" (emphasis again mine).

Clearly, the Founders equated the creation and consumption of alcoholic beverages as literally a "gift from God", one that created happiness in mankind, and thus deserved to be enshrined as an "inalienable right" in the very documents that comprise the cornerstone of our system of government.

And so it follows naturally, that if the happiness derived from consumption of such beverages is our God-given right to pursue, so too must be the state of inebriation which is the logical and necessary end result of such consumption. That we do so in public must go without saying, as what could be a better exercise of our right to pursue happiness, than to share the joy we feel with our fellow men?

"Proof that Seattle is a Hotbed of al Qaeda Synthesizers"

that would have been better.
still makes little sense but, better.

My point was that saying "no alcohol ==> muslim ==> Al Qaeda sympathizers" is not only a terrible and bigoted thing to say, but it also shows a troubling ignorance of Seattle's history.