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Global · 3rd September 2011
Editor
by Christopher di Armani
This past January, while he was still Chair of the Union Bay Improvement District (UBID), Alan de Jersey made the unilateral decision that citizens would be barred from all future public meetings of the UBID board until he deemed otherwise.
There was never a motion put before the UBID board to this effect. It was simply Alan de Jersey playing God; his making a decree that all good little minions would mind if they knew what was good for them.
Sadly, the human condition is one that always seems intent on oppressing our fellow human. Once we get our filthy little paws on even the slightest glimmer of power, it goes straight to our heads and we just can’t seem to help ourselves.
A while ago I came across a news story that horrified me. Apparently so much that I couldn’t even write about it, because when I searched the blog for a link to my previous article, there wasn’t one!
Perhaps I was too engrossed in all the insanity over in Union Bay, British Columbia… I don’t know. Anyhow… before we jump into the torrid subject, here’s a quote to keep in mind as I examine the motives of those behind the atrocious behavior we’re about to see.
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
– Virginia Woolf
Now it’s off to Quartzsite, Arizona, where the latest round of political corruption is spilling over onto the evening news.
The site: a public meeting of the town council.
Jennifer Jones was standing at the microphone spelling out some details about the failure of the current town council to follow their own rules. She pointed out that the current rules being enforced by the council had never even been passed, and were therefore null and void.
The man who appears to be the head of the local corruption and thuggery, Quartzsite Police Chief Jeff Gilbert, decided he had best step in and stop this uppity citizen from doing the unthinkable: exercising her Right to Freedom of Speech.
Seriously… just who does she think she is?
While she was in the middle of speaking to the gathered crowd Police Chief Jeff Gilbert ordered his officers to forcibly remove Ms. Jones from the meeting and in the video clip of the event we see this happening before our very eyes.
While this happens, Head Thug Jeff Gilbert repeatedly says to Ms. Jones in his best Police State voice,
Do not resist the officer! Do not resist the Officer!
Read complete article here.
This past January, while he was still Chair of the Union Bay Improvement District (UBID), Alan de Jersey made the unilateral decision that citizens would be barred from all future public meetings of the UBID board until he deemed otherwise.
There was never a motion put before the UBID board to this effect. It was simply Alan de Jersey playing God; his making a decree that all good little minions would mind if they knew what was good for them.
Sadly, the human condition is one that always seems intent on oppressing our fellow human. Once we get our filthy little paws on even the slightest glimmer of power, it goes straight to our heads and we just can’t seem to help ourselves.
A while ago I came across a news story that horrified me. Apparently so much that I couldn’t even write about it, because when I searched the blog for a link to my previous article, there wasn’t one!
Perhaps I was too engrossed in all the insanity over in Union Bay, British Columbia… I don’t know. Anyhow… before we jump into the torrid subject, here’s a quote to keep in mind as I examine the motives of those behind the atrocious behavior we’re about to see.
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
– Virginia Woolf
Now it’s off to Quartzsite, Arizona, where the latest round of political corruption is spilling over onto the evening news.
The site: a public meeting of the town council.
Jennifer Jones was standing at the microphone spelling out some details about the failure of the current town council to follow their own rules. She pointed out that the current rules being enforced by the council had never even been passed, and were therefore null and void.
The man who appears to be the head of the local corruption and thuggery, Quartzsite Police Chief Jeff Gilbert, decided he had best step in and stop this uppity citizen from doing the unthinkable: exercising her Right to Freedom of Speech.
Seriously… just who does she think she is?
While she was in the middle of speaking to the gathered crowd Police Chief Jeff Gilbert ordered his officers to forcibly remove Ms. Jones from the meeting and in the video clip of the event we see this happening before our very eyes.
While this happens, Head Thug Jeff Gilbert repeatedly says to Ms. Jones in his best Police State voice,
Do not resist the officer! Do not resist the Officer!
Read complete article here.