St. Augustine City Manager John Patrick Regan, P.E. stopped at the St. Augustine Slave Market building last night, apologizing to artists and artisans forced to work in the dark, with customers walking on uneven brick floors, presenting a risk of tripping, falls and liability. Apology accepted.
Though calls were repeatedly made by the artists and artisans (and by me) to City Hall, no one bothered to change the timer on the lights after Daylight Savings came into effect on November 2, 2014, two (2) weeks ago.
Though there were some six City employees at the Slave Market all day yesterday putting up Christmas lights, none changed the timer.
The Public Works Department once again dropped the ball, never telling the General Services Department.
This reflects insensitivity if not gross incompetence on the part of Public Works Director Martha Graham.
The timer will be changed today.
Bureaucratic SNAFUS: be gone.
St. Augustine City government is a service organization and will start to treat customers -- you and me -- with dignity, respect and consideration.
The era of arrogance will end.
The era of harassing artists and artisans and arresting them for First Amendment protected activity will end.
Viva Nancy Shaver, our new Mayor, who ran on a reform platform and will be sworn in on December 1, 2014 by Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy Quince.
John Regan, protégé of Bill Hariss, should be wearing a striped prison suit for the part he has played in the gang rape of the residents of Saint Augustine and his incessant participation in the willful and knowing on-going practice of passing patently Unconstitutional "bad" law for selfish personal gain.
ReplyDeleteAccepting his apology is like accepting the apology of a rapist who has turned out the light in the bedroom of his victim. Accepting his apology also gives tacit approval and legitimacy to that rape.
Demanding seventy five dollars a month of citizens to exercise their Constitutionally guaranteed right to FREE SPEECH is CRIMINAL. Even MORE criminal, is that it excludes those who do not have the seventy five dollars, or those, like myself, who refuse to pay it on moral grounds.
APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED!
As LBJ said after Selma, "We SHALL overcome!"
ReplyDeleteI'm much more troubled about the postcard labeled "slave market," which is the PUBLIC MARKET.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know, there MIGHT BE a SINGLE documented example of a human being sold in St. Augustine. One too many, YES.
The plaque on the structure was emplaced in the 1960s -- for tourists. Think about this carefully.
To attempt to rewrite our history by calling what served as the public market from ca. 1824 (when it was built) to ca. 1890s -- a good 66 years + -- is unacceptable.
As in all things, history or law, we must be scrupulous and authentic.
It is a time to heal.
ReplyDeleteYou can not have healing,
ReplyDeleteUntil you end the stealing!
The healing will fail,
If the crooks avoid jail,
The healing can not begin,
Until you end the sin!
Healing you won't get,
Until you pay the pigdebt,
Yes. it is time —
To incarcerate the slime!
These sociopath, self serving, self anointed elite, Xtrevilist scum bags have wreaked havoc on this city for years and in the process have denied opportunity to and ruined the lives of countless thousands of citizens and sent many others to an early grave with their immoral and illegal machinations. Their usurped "bad' laws are still on the books. Let the justice begin!
"The Law Is The Law!"
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242
This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.
Acts under "color of any law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under "color of any law," the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties.
This definition includes, in addition to law enforcement officials, individuals such as Mayors, Council persons, Judges, Nursing Home Proprietors, Security Guards, etc., persons who are bound by laws, statutes ordinances, or customs.
Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both, and if bodily injury results or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire shall be fined or imprisoned up to ten years or both, and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death."
Called the FBI?
ReplyDeleteIt is the slave market. Forever. Locals sold slave and other property there and in the plaza. David Nolan's and Geoffrey Dobson's research is convincing. Locals called it the slave market for a reason. Let the healing begin.
ReplyDeleteFBI? Do you mean the Friendly to Business Interests FBI?
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact, yes;
http://fountainofbaloney.com/fbarticles/FB%20WEB%20Site%20copy/2SADogpages/19fbi/fbipg1.html
And yes, it was and still is a slave market. There are debt slaves at the slave market every day. They are FICO rated and their slave potential is sold every day through all kinds of marketing scams.
"As in all things, history or law, we must be scrupulous and authentic."
http://www.boxthefox.com/articles/Abe%20Lincoln.html
Let the jailing begin.
Neither looked into the records.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened with Red House Bluff, IYR.
Details matter!
Neither Nolan (whom I greatly respect) nor Dobson have degrees in history. I'll take MY data the old-fashioned way: from bona fide scholars who have done research using primary resources.
Credentialism is overrated. And I don't have a journalism degree. And neither Shelby Foote nor Stetson Kennedy graduated college. And the acting chair of Anthropology examined the ESI report on Red House Bluff and found it did not adequately complete the first stage, with a large leg bone described that he thought was probably human, having somehow been preserved in sandy soil, in what he believed was probably a Native American constructed monument to a cacique, shaman or honored elder or leader.
ReplyDeleteAnd JFK said, "there's no school for presidents." And Lincoln only had two years of formal education. But George W. Bush had degrees from both Yale and Harvard, a waste of seats a cool poor kid might have occupied.
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