Go to the City of St. Augustine website.
Click on Visitors. Read the all-too-brief, relatively dull account of our exciting history. What a pity!
Click on A Special Place, where it states: “You will also find information helpful in planning your visit at”:
• Old City.com There is nothing there but crass, low-rent commercialism for the less classy of the two tour trains, for a cut-rate motel, and (drum roll) one more click on News takes you to the Historic City News website, locus of MICHAEL GOLD's hatred, with a Tea Party ad with a snake one inch from the face of every single person in town who wants to make a difference, including Mayor Joseph Boles, City Manager John Regan and County Administrator Michael Wanchik. Is MICHAEL GOLD's crummy website being linked to Visitors on our City's website tarnishing our City’s brand in the eyes of international and domestic visitors? Is this is an unfair and deceptive trade practice in violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act? What do you reckon?
• The St. Augustine Record This site has an excellent section on parks and tourism. Why not a direct link to the parks part of the website?
• St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra & The Beach Visitors and Convention Bureau Great website. Classy layout, good information, great photos. Why isn’t this website first?
• St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce This website makes the ethnocentric statement, "It's easy to see why people have been settling here for nearly 500 years." People have been living here for more than 11,000 years, but I guess the Chamber doesn't think much about indigenous Native American Indians. The St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce website has nothing on tourism worth reading. The St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce is part of a national lobbyist-driven right-wing business organization that lobbies against environmental and worker protection laws. Why is it even listed?
Why are these four websites the only websites listed?
Who decided in which order to list them?
Why not list our state parks, state forests, the National Park Service, Flagler College, and other points of interest? Why not list www.staugustgreen.com?
By clicking on the first link at CHARLES NUSBAUM's OldCity.com, you will find yourself on the Old City.com com website, where a constantly changing banners says “Local News,” which leads you ineluctably to a hate website, Historic City News, whose controversial operator publishes racist, sexist, homophobic, libelous, defamatory opinions on Historic City News, www.plazabum.com and www.shamefulpeople.com --- MICHAEL GOLD f/k/a "MICHAEL TOBIN."
Enough. We need to welcome visitors, not offend them and insult their intelligence.
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