Florida Governor Reuben Askew once told a smart young lawyer, our former St. Johns County Commissioner Henry Dean, "If you've got the votes, sit down and shut up." I'm fixin'to sit down and shut up. But I speak in strong support of the recommendation by Mr. Trey Alexander Asner to designate our 1953 jail jail as a County Landmark. I spoke with Sheriff Robert Hardwick about the need for CRRB review last year. He was supportive. But our County Administrator and County Attorney sought a demolition permit. Enough.
Archimedes said, "give me a place to stand, and I will move the world." Please landmark this holy place, whose former prisoners -- 1000 of them were illegally arrested and incarcerated here. Their cases were all dismissed by the late United States District Court Judge Bryan J. Simpson, using federal court removal jurisdiction invoked by civil rights lawyer William Kuntsler.
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
That's what Senator Robert Francis Kennedy said to South Africans in 1967. I remember reading and writing about South African Apartheid and American Jim Crow segregation,
That's what Senator Robert Francis Kennedy said to South Africans in 1967. In 1974, I was a 17.5 year old Georgetown freshman when the South African Charge de Affaires was a guest on campus. I advised him to end Apartheid. Some of my friends said, "how can you say that?" I replied, "I just did."
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Said on Facebook that an orange jumpsuit was too good for whoever sent the fake GOP voter guide. So in other words whoever sent the guide should be killed. Is the GOP that holy? These people are lunatics.
It also said on Facebook: "To the person who stated elsewhere that the first sentence of this post implies I'm calling for the death penalty... No, there are lots of other forms of punishment: Solitary confinement, loss of privileges, monetary restitution. How strange that an attorney would not know this."
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