Over on our local obscene, indecent, racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, anti-progressive and homeless-hating websites, they're crying crocodile tears.
Have the hate websites' nattering nabobs of negativism lost their Google ad words for terms of service violations, involving soliciting "clicks" from hate website viewers? No longer do Google ads appear on the hate websites. Google has standards. Google's corporate slogan is "don't be evil."
Are the hate website posters completely losing their marbles, even as President Obama signed national health care legislation and Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, their leader, is exposed for possible obstruction of justice?
What do you reckon?
The hate websites' Anonymice posters also don't want Rainbow flags on our Bridge of Lions, citing as "authority" an unnamed former Commissioner and unnamed lawyers.
They don't want any flags (except the American flag). While it's great that Confederate types now recognize the sovereign power of the United States, they don't recognize the power of federal courts, having bitterly opposed the Rainbow flags with some 32 pages of homophobic hatred on "Talk of the Town," the former St. Augustine Record bulletin board, which they polluted with their swinish vulgarity, obscenity and indecency.
Several local carping harpies want to deny the First Amendment right of local groups -- including St. Augustine Pride, the Lighthouse and civil rights groups to fly their flags on our bridge in honor of events open to the public that are related to historic events and persons. Our City of St. Augustine lost in federal court in 2005 -- apparently the people who hate Gays want to go to federal court again (and lose again).
The Bridge of Lions was held to be a public forum in a June 7, 2005 order by United States District Court Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. That is a final binding order.
The haters will have a tougher time banning local groups from flying their flags now, since the State of Florida owns the Bridge (not the City of St. Augustine), a datum the Florida DOT called to the City's attention by July 1, 2005 letter. DOT's local spokesman, who works in City Hall, attempted to obstruct our Open Records request by demanding that we file a "formal request." There is no such thing as a formal request under Florida Open Records law, and DOT has provided some of the requested documents. Those documents show that homophobic City Attorney RONALD WAYNE BROWN, one of City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS' heyboys, was in communication with DOT on March 18 & 19, writing a letter that sounded very much as if the City of St. Augustine had say-so on flag flying, which is for a bridge owned by the State of Florida in a case in which the federal court has jurisdiction.
Some homophobic bullies would rather fight than switch.
Here's what MICHAEL GOLD f/k/a "MICHAEL TOBIN" wrote on one of his local hate websites stated in response to the posting below:
Claiming the Bridge of Lions
March 20, 2010
http://www.historiccity.com/2010/staugustine/news/florida/claiming-the-bridge-of-lions-2821
We’ve waited a long time to get the Bridge of Lions back online, but, now that it is, I am reminded that everything about the bridge is not to be celebrated.
Today the bridge had to be shut down for an hour — right in the middle of the day. Traffic already has resumed backing up because of the timing of the traffic lights– on both sides of the bridge. When traffic on the east side backs up to Lee and Cates and traffic on the west side backs up to the fort, people seem to lose their senses and think it’s OK to jump out of their cars, or shoot a few pictures, or walk between the stopped vehicles that are all itching to get moving again.
And, of course, everybody thinks they own the bridge. Every group thinks they can claim the bridge for themselves and that their cause is a little more important than the cause of the next guy. The traffic lanes on the bridge are part of State Road A1A Highway and the State of Florida owns the bridge — not the city, nor one citizen group or another.
How long will it be before sweethearts are painting their initials on the arches or anarchist cults deface or destroy some part of the construction? After all, the Krishnas will be in the plaza this weekend.
Oh, let’s not forget the flags. Not the American flags, but the flags that proclaim one groups dominance over the concrete and steel edifice for a week at a time. The bridge is public property; but, that does not mean that the public has permission to deface or alter the premises, or, to create any hazard by their presence, or, to erect any monument, attach any advertisement or otherwise convert any part of the premises to their own, personal use.
Edward Adelbert Slavin, Jr., the zealot homosexual advocate, disbarred lawyer and nonstop critic of anything done by government, has already petitioned the city to erect (no pun intended) gay rights flags as an expression of, um, well, his gayness, I suppose. Don’t get me wrong, I completely believe that he has the right to stick his flags all the way up his asphalt driveway, but, that would be on private property. I can’t see where he has the right to plaster the newly remodeled bridge with them — and, since the City doesn’t own the bridge, I don’t see where they could grant Slavin permission to use the bridge for that purpose.
I’m not even sure that the Department of Transportation, who is responsible for the bridge, could grant such a request — without an act of the legislature. They’re in session now, so, he better hurry.
Anyhow, I conducted a very scientific experiment at coffee this morning. Two of the brightest legal minds in town, several well respected investors and businessmen and even a former commissioner were polled — what flags should be flown over the Bridge of Lions? After some discussion, and an ad-nauseum (sic) rehash of the debacle that was the old-old bridge flag policy, the majority seemed to feel that the new-old bridge shouldn’t have any flags at all.
We learned from the lawsuits and countersuits before that if you are faced with an “all-or-nothing” decision, it may be better to simply choose nothing. Besides, the flags aren’t authentic and we are spending a whole lot of money to restore the authentic bridge, right?
We'd like to see MICHAEL GOLD's college transcript to see if he flunked logic.
What do you reckon?
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