Is there anything more disgusting than the pseudo-liberalism of prosperous Caucasian Boulderites?

Take this sentence from Monday's edition of your newspaper ("Boulder to homeless: Not so fast," Jan. 25), which reported on protests against a city law to ticket homeless people sleeping out of doors: "Mayor Susan Osborne said she felt 'boxed in' by the protesters, and pressured to act."

So we're supposed to feel sorry for Ms. Osborne -- and not the homeless? How could the little bit of inconvenience Ms. Osborne experienced possibly compare with the suffering of the homeless?

Has it occurred to the august defenders of the republic of Boulder that, if a man is so down-and-out that he has to sleep under a bridge, then he probably won't be able to pay the $100 fine? Will the homeless man then be put in jail for failure to pay the fine?

Are the members of the Boulder City Council really so dense that it is going to take them two weeks to create "language for suspending enforcement" of a law that should have been rejected out of hand?

The law is unconscionable, cruel and unjust, and every member who voted for it should be removed immediately.

Joseph E. Collins

Boulder