tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post7866115323935111694..comments2023-10-17T22:56:42.784-04:00Comments on Only in The Republic of Amherst: Surrender, by any other name...Larry Kelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-11648140568602863232008-08-06T19:55:00.000-04:002008-08-06T19:55:00.000-04:00Yeah, plus there simply are not all that many of “...Yeah, plus there simply are not all that many of “them”. At the closed door meeting with the Town Manager Harry Brooks represented himself as the Chair of the town democratic committee (at the next meeting of that committee he was thrown out as chair) his WIFE Paulette Brooks represented herself as the Chair of the Republican Committee and in Amherst we know that is about three people, and the Green Party representative (gee, there’s another 1.5 people) and the rookie League of Women Voters President (their former President said she had not problems and loved the Parade). Thus these 4 or 5 folks purported to speak for thousands. And they only really speak for themselves. Selfish indeed.Larry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-83412128974693461942008-08-06T19:38:00.000-04:002008-08-06T19:38:00.000-04:00I actually think that the audience for their parad...I actually think that the audience for their parade, would be too small to get their point across. Parade committees' money and audience, for a bunch of jerks that do not know what freedom is all about and do not care how it came to be, would be a slap in committee's face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-74580634938539302262008-08-06T18:52:00.000-04:002008-08-06T18:52:00.000-04:00O'Reilly said... Why do protest advocates rule...O'Reilly said... Why do protest advocates rule out organizing their own event, with or without the organizational or financial resources of the town?<BR/><BR/>Because they are lazy & selfish? As in, "I want, so do it for me"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-80113506644081076032008-08-06T17:30:00.000-04:002008-08-06T17:30:00.000-04:00My righteousness (if you want to call it that) is ...My righteousness (if you want to call it that) is based my understanding of the first amendment freedom of speech and right of association, not some self-assured moral bearing. <BR/><BR/>Why do protest advocates rule out organizing their own event, with or without the organizational or financial resources of the town?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-47057620628198182692008-08-06T16:54:00.000-04:002008-08-06T16:54:00.000-04:00Yes indeed! Hey at least that one is a jailhouse ...Yes indeed! <BR/><BR/>Hey at least that one is a jailhouse metaphor rather than military.<BR/><BR/>One prominent guy in the legal profession criticized my use of the term “locked and loaded”; yet he was comfortable saying “keeping their powder dry” in reference to other middle-of-the-road Amherst political types staying out of this fiasco--at least until she stayed beyond the deadline for getting the replacement election on the already scheduled September Primary or November Presidential ballots (thus costing taxpayers less than a stand alone election)Larry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-43008598020271461452008-08-06T16:33:00.000-04:002008-08-06T16:33:00.000-04:00Larry there you go again, making statements that a...Larry there you go again, making statements that are going to haunt you and show up in countless other places and will soon accuse you of assault and battery. "Watch his back?" Whoa, fighting words. In Amherst that is.Max Hartshornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999934633511284859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-86518852259338287392008-08-06T14:43:00.000-04:002008-08-06T14:43:00.000-04:00Actually I stole that from Stephanie.And my "self ...Actually I stole that from Stephanie.<BR/><BR/>And my "self assured moral righteousness" is based on a 9-0 Federal Supreme Court decision.Larry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-18229222962892530712008-08-06T14:26:00.000-04:002008-08-06T14:26:00.000-04:00Per O'Reilly's quote:"...just a willful stubbornne...Per O'Reilly's quote:<BR/><BR/>"...just a willful stubbornness based on some inexplicable self assured moral righteousness."<BR/><BR/>Sounds like an apt description of players on both sides of this debate. <BR/><BR/>As Larry likes to say, "hmmmm....."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5035949355013113578.post-74580263895188708402008-08-06T12:35:00.000-04:002008-08-06T12:35:00.000-04:00The Town Manager changed his posture because the B...The Town Manager changed his posture because the Board voted a unanimous 'sense of the board' that Shaffer ought not disenfranchise the Parade Committee.<BR/><BR/>They may have been motivated by reasons stated in the ACLU letter but Shaffer showed no signs of taking it into consideration, not one iota, just a willful stubbornness based on some inexplicable self assured moral righteousness. <BR/><BR/>Create where due, stubborn refusal to accept new information where due, too.<BR/><BR/><I>The Town Manager, at ACLU urging, already backed off his April 23 declaration that the private committee could not hold a July 4th parade on July 4 so when the ACLU also threatens a federal lawsuit for not giving them the time slot held for seven straight years he will also cave.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com