While Pedro Menendez landed and founded our City on September 8, 1565, he spotted it and named it on August 28, 1565, naming it after St. Augustine, an African Bishop and scholar whose works we still read today, and which I read as a Georgetown University freshman.
In the words of St. Augustine, "An unjust law is no law at all."
Our City must repeal its unjust laws against making art and music on St. George Street, a stench in the nostrils of our Nation
A succession of stinky "unjust laws" was repeatedly struck down by federal courts and once ruthlessly enforced by S perpetrated by the police state tactics wrought by misguided misanthropes, including longtime City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRIS and his willing accomplices, including controversial St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, who as a patrolman and SAPD Police Chief conducted a reign of error, arresting street musicians and artists, along with ex-Mayors JOSEPH LESTER BOLES, JR., CLAUDE LEONARD WEEKS, JR. -- disgraced ex-Mayors profiteering from their no-bid lucrative lease deal for City land for 81 St. George Street, which helped lead to BOLES' ignominious defeat by Nancy Shaver in 2014.
As LBJ said to Congress after Selma, "we SHALL overcome."
In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
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