Time to stop routinized civil rights violations at the behest of St. George Street "merchants?"

WILLIAM B. HARRISS
Right-wing Republican City Manager of St. Augustine, Florida Runs Amuck (Again)

Photo credit: J.D. Pleasant

See below. Same old song and dance from the crochety City Manager who has plotted for more than a decade to arrest artists. Now he's falsely arresting children, even sending officers to school to do so. That's wrong.

Shame on City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS. Shame on us for putting up with HARRISS. We need new leadership in City Hall. We need to fire WILLIAM B. HARRISS, City Manager, for cause -- incompetence and plain meanness. He's a fascist.

If cops don't respect people's constitutional rights, they need to be fired, too.

Sado-cops and their bosses need to be sued personally for civil rights violations.

Sado-cops don't deserve to be promoted (or elected).

Sado-cops don't need to be rewarded with a $56 million Sheriff's budget full of waste and lacking in accountability, with take-home Sheriff cars, no-bid contracts and flubdubs and frills like helicopters, Cardigan sweaters and Pith helmets at our expense.

There are too many sado-cops in our beautiful St. Johns County -- oafs who wear a revolver and who get their jollies on harassing people. They're bad for tourism, bad for law and order and bad for the people who pay their salaries.

Under controversial St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR f/k/a "DAVID HOAR" when he was SAPD police chief, the police officers' supervision and training was so bad that they tackled Marshall Burns into quadriplegia, resulting in a $3.5 million settlement, of which $1.5 million was paid for by taxpayers, over and above what insurance paid.

So how does St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR live with himself, knowing that his poor supervision and training turned a person into a quadriplegic? Does he wake up in nightmares?

As for St. George Street merchant RICHARD PINTO, quoted below, wasn't he the angry merchant who pushed the City to drive the artists and entertainers off of St. George Street? These guys remind me of Jimmy Breslin's book, "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight." These aren't very smart "merchants" -- these "merchants" don't even understand the economics of their own street.

St. George Street tourism thrived when there were artists and entertainers there -- it has turned duller and less lively, with fewer tourists. The artists and entertainers were targeted for abuse by a sick City Administration that is unyoung, uncool, unhip and unblack, top-heavy with KKK attitudes and redolent of mercantilism.

When people let "merchants" make public policy, there's a name for it -- it's mercantilism. Enough mercantilism.

When you have "merchants" renting city and state owned property, employing few or no African-Americans and using their political influence to solicit arrests of children and artists, you've got a problem.

It's a sickness. These are self-aggrandizing narcissists.

It will take a village to solve the problem and stop the abusive arrests.

We shall overcome.