The spirit of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and living in our Nation's Oldest City.
From harassing the homeless, victimizing vendors, failing to protect employees and residents and destroying history, archaeology and natural beauty, failing to remedy the "rampant corruption" our erstwhile Mayor candidly admits exists in City Hall, our local Scrooges have it all. See December 12 David Brian Wallace letter and December 16 Ed Slavin column, below, along with interviews and documentation on those government officials and destroyers whose misguided dangerous activities are driving visitors away.
Unlike Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge character, our local Scrooges have not yet had their consciousness raised by the spirits of Christmas past, Present and Future. May their sleep tonight be interrupted by visions of what they have done to our beautiful city and county. May tomorrow bring new hope for a new beginning, free of oppression and destruction and bigotry.
May the year 2007 bring Congressional action on a "St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore," and an end to the greed and devastation thatare destroying our town and county.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called St. Augustine the "most lawless city in America in 1964. May 2007 bring what Lincoln called "a new birth of freedom," and an end to the destruction of people and our environment here in this beautiful 441-year old Nation's Oldest (European-founded) City.
This is a place whose sophisticated people are rightly described by St. Augustine Record reporter Peter Guinta (in Editor and Publisher Magazine) as living ina "small but cosmopolitan town." As the 2006 elections showed, we're increasingly weary of being subjected to a government run for the benefit of Scrooges and misanthropes and wastrsls.
Pray for every single one of our local Scrooges (and scourges of our environment) to repent now.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Solstice, Happy Kwanzaa and Happy New Year.
Read more below.
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085
904-471-7023
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