This 'save face' comment by Filner is a line he stole (intentionally or otherwise) from Dr. Ron Paul during the first GOP debate. Let's not censor Dr. Paul's contribution to the dialogue this year. After all, censorship is becoming America's favorite past-time. The US gov't (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever.
Last link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp