MICHAEL GOLD f/k/a
“MICHAEL TOBIN,” the erroneous non- resident Republican
apparatchik and cranky hate website operator, is ululating again.
This time he has yet another spurious complaint on "Historic City News" about our City of St.
Augustine's 450th anniversary commemoration planning.
This time, the apparatchik complains because our City is seeking a
$5000 grant to place three automatic exterior defibrillators (AEDs)
in the City Hall/Lightner Museum Building, the Municipal Marina and
the Public Works building on West King Street
The apparatchik writes it
is a “strange” legacy project. Not at all. It is this
objection is stranger than fiction – it belongs in the local
RIPLEY's “BELIEVE IT OR NOT!” MUSEUM. As
William F. Buckley, Jr. once said, “The devil with the complaint.”
Increased tourism for the
500th Anniversary of Spanish Florida (2013), 50th
Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (2014) and 450th
Anniversary of St. Augustine (2015) will mean a need for prompt
remedies if someone is having a heart attack. As St. Augustine Fire
Deparment (SAFD) Chief Michael Arnold explained, a delay as little as
ten minutes in defibrillator can result in death. Some 300,000
people die of cardiac arrest annually. The lives that are saved are
valuable, and one could even be GOLD's own – the AED will be used
on a non-discriminatory basis, for anyone with a heart attack (even
cognitive misers who can't stand progress, including AED purchases as
“legacy projects”).
The City is right to buy
the AEDs. The City is right to seek grant funds for the AEDs. The
City is right to consider the AED purchase a 450th “legacy
project.”
The erroneous apparatchik
is wrong again – he wonders whether the AED technology will still
be working in fifty years – that's not the point of a “legacy
project.” What puerile sophistry..
Back then, the apparatchik
in quo used every “fear and smear” method at his disposal to
insult those of us who resisted the works and pomps of HARRISS, a/k/a
“WILL HARASSS,” who targetted First Amendment protected activity
and ran the City for the benefit of his cronies. HARRISS retired.
Now, good and decent
people are no longer afraid of crooks, kooks, cognitive misers,
schnooks, KKK members and hick hacks from the Tea Party or the 0.1%.
We defeated the bully HARRIS.
Good and decent people are
working to make our City accountable, honest and honorable It is a
joy to behold. We've protected GLBT people under Fair Housing and
we're working to make our City more sustainable and economical,
ending Environmental Racism, fixing Riberia Street (all of it) and
restoring public confidence in self-government. Yes we can!.
Yes, after a four year
propaganda campaign, the apparatchik in quo succeeded in defeating
the second African-American County Commissioner in St. Johns County
history (J. Kenneth Bryan), using racist “fear and smear”
techniques. They succeeded, because in thewords of former County
Commission Chairman Ben Rich (to Folio Weekly), St. Johns County is
one of the “last bastions of the Ku Klux Klan.” This, too, shall
pass.
Yet I don't reckon the
apparatchik will ever succeed in tarbrushing est civil servants like
Mike Arnold, Dana Ste. Claire and John Regan for doing their jobs.
The great thing about the
450th: “the whole world is watching,” as well as our
City, State and Nation.
There is much to be proud
of in St. Augustine, and we're now sharng t with the world.
“Why do the heathen
rage?
Hate site operator MICHAEL GOLD reminds me of a honky-tonk medley of the supercilious rantings of Emily Litela (Saturday Night Live character played by Gilda Radner), Floyd R. Turbo (Johnny Carson) and the late Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. What do you reckon?
Forgive him.
When people read a
“critic” who insulted Rev. Andrew Young and insulted those of us
working for Environmental Justice (e.g., halting illegal dumping),
they will understand: we have overcome.
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