St. Augustine Votes to Become Compassionate City (Again)

City Commissioners voted 4-0 to become a "Compassionate City" Monday, July 22nd.  We're the first one in the State of Florida.  www.compassionstaugustine.org

St. Augustine, St. Augustine Beach, the Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County, St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar and State's Attorney R.J. Larizza have led the way on adopting sexual orientation nondiscrimination provisions.  This makes our County more attractive for visitors, employers, musicians, artists and entertainers.  Our City's Fair Housing ordinance helped persuade Mumford & Sons to perform in St. Augustine, one of only three (3)
U.S. venues for its Gentlement of the Road Tour.

Nattering nabobs of negativism are furious at St. Augustine's civic improvements.
They were perfectly happy with Jim Crow segregation. They want artists and musicians arrested for performing on St. George Street.  They don't believe in compassion.  Their days are over.

This morning, at 6 AM, some bigot posted an online death threat -- calling for City Commissioners to lined up and shot (see below) in the Slave Market Square. 

Now, after 8 PM, the WRecKord has not kept Marcia Lane's promise at 4:30 PM to remove the offending post, which states that our City government officials be "taken out and shot in the plaza in the center of St. Augustine...."

The Record debases debate with its "Anonymice" postings, even going so far as to print some in the printed version of the newspaper.  Enough.

Bullies use the Record's anonymous commenting feature to intimidate.

Terroristic threats on the Record's website, and elsewhere on the internet, have long been one of the ways that the developers, right-wing politicians, KKK, local Tea Party elements and other Nativists in St. Johns County chilled, coerced, restrained and discouraged First Amendment protected activity. 

Now the electronic bullies switched from targeting activists to targeting our elected and appointed officials.

They've committed possible federal and state crimes, and for long enough.

Anyone with information should contact SAPD or the FBI.
Ask for the Domestic Terrorism Squad. 904-248-7000.