Cap worn by one of the Anonymice hate site posters in St. Augustine, Florida.
Ralf Brookes, a lawyer for Florida environmentalists and local governments, was personally attacked in late June on a KKK-type website closely associated with the City of St. Augustine and its tatterdemalion City Manager, WILLIAM B. HARRISS.
The KKK-style www.disgracefulpeople.com and www.plazabum.com websites' jejune attacks on attorney Ralf Brookes typify the genre of mean-spirited attacks by anonymous posters ("the Anonymice") -- attacks in the spirit of "The Control Game" (below) and the Republican hitman's textbook, "Damage Control." (below)
The Anonymice's snotty, snooty personal attacks on attorney Ralf Brookes and County Commissioner J. Kenneth Bryan are ultimately as boring predictable as the animus-ridden energumen who write them, practicing:
1. Guilt by association (card-carrying member of the Sierra Club).
2. Personal appearance.
3. He's not from around here.
4. He wasn't "invited" by the government to criticize it.
How trite. Sounds like the PR department of a tobacco company on autopilot. One of the most frequent posters on the Plazabum.comhate site is NANCY SIKES-KLINE a/k/a "bullg8rlady," who has since May 31, 2007 posted 528 times on Plazabum.com, some 1.47% of total or an average of 0.69 posts per day].
COMMISSIONER NANCY SIKES-KLINE's "Anonmymice" handle (bullg8rlady) is the same one that she used on the now-closed St. Augustine Record board, "Talk of the Town."
At the June 22, 2009 City Commission meeting, she made funny faces at Commissioner Leeanna Freeman, while stating that she (SIKES-KLINE a/k/a bullg8rlady) was "ready to vote": because she had "done [her] homework."
How? By listening to City Attorney RONALD WAYNE BROWN, another Plazabummer, about the urgent need to settle the Fish Island lawsuit, benefiting BROWN's former client, PIERRE THOMPSON, grandson of the founder of the St. Augustine Record, whose real estate company pled guilty in federal court last year to molesting a bald eagle nest tree on October 8, 2001.
Commissioner NANCY SIKES-KLINE is employed by land planner KAREN TAYLOR, who will say nearly anything for developers.
In 1776, British loyalists in St. Augustine burned the Declaration of Independence and (in effigy) John Hancock and John Adams. In their spirit today, local KKK-style hate site perpetrators attack any progressive voice.
They're not going to steal our joy today.
Why do these Anonymice hitmen rage?
Because again and again for years they've been defeated in court, exposed in administrative agencies, and proven to be the vacuous, vile, vicious vampires who would put solid waste in our Old City Reservoir and allow sewage effluent to contaminate our saltwater marsh, with a pipe missing hundreds of feet of metal uncorrected for years.
Because we've stood up to them when they perpetrate environmental racism, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, waste, fraud and abuse.
Because they are no longer avoiding questions about their subjecting a small town of only 13,000 people to a bloated city government satrapy with 350 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees (only a few dozen of whom live here),
Because people are asking questions with persistence and panache about an incredibly bloated $50 million annual budget and a City Manager who thinks it is his job to run artists off our streets and otherwise violate the First Amendment every day in every way.
Why do the developers and their entourage rage? Why do the emit anonymous defamation, disinformation and baloney?
Because St. Augustine has the most progressive populations in America (according to a former County Commission Chair).
Because we're guiding and changing our local governments from the grass roots, with Commissioners increasingly enlightened about development decisions, to their everlasting credit.
From last year's 5-0 vote stopping the Fish Island schemers from taking our city-owned bottomlands, to this year's 4-0 vote rejecting the effort to inflict an ugly building across the street from the Cathedral, Government House and the Slave Market Square (Plaza de la Constitución, our City Commissioners are increasing their scrutiny of our City Manager's works and pomps.
That's a good thing.
Let the spoiled brat foreign investors and developers and their entourages rage – they can't handle the truth.
Their control over civic life in Our Nation's Oldest City is ending.
The people are winning.
And we see right through the "Control Game" and their "Damage Control" and the vices of the "Anonymice."
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