‘Nuclear-Free’ Maryland City Makes Exception for HP Computers
24th June 2012
The city of Takoma Park, Maryland granted a waiver to its strict Nuclear-Free Zone Act this week in order to use Hewlett-Packard computers in its city library. The city of Takoma Park has been nuclear-free since 1983, meaning that the city is prohibited from supporting companies that work with US nuclear weapons production. HP is on this list of prohibited contractors, so when librarians received the shipment of new hardware for the library’s computer learning center, they packed them away and awaited the Nuclear-Free Takoma Park Commitee’s decision on the matter. The Committee denied the waiver for the equipment, but was overridden for the first time ever in a vote by city officials.
Posturing gets kicked to the curb when it might actually pinch.
My first girlfriend at Yale came from Tacoma Park; her parents were bureaucrats. Eventually she joined the Party of the Right. (You know — you grow.)