Last night, amid fog and rain, only a few dozen intrepid souls trod into the Lawrence Lewis Auiditorium at Flagler College, named after the late Henry Flagler, co-founder of the Standard Oil Monopoly, to view a short film originally paid for by the City of St. Augustine, on 450 years of St. Augustine African-American history. The short film contains inaccuracy (Spanish left in 1819, not 1845), and sugarcoats our history. Worse ex-Mayor JOSEPH LESTER BOLES, JR. joined disappointing 450th director DANA STE. CLAIRE on stage with the producers, while our Mayor and Commissioners were across Granada Street in the long-schedule Commission meeting. How gauche. How lauche. How graceless. How classless. We, The People, caught the producers red-handed trying to profit from the City's work-for-hire work by charging TV stations for it -- the City owns the intellectual property and rights to its reproduction. All profits must be disgorged, if it takes a fraud and RICO lawsuit and a constructive trust to bring them back. (The same company, Mummy Cat Productions, LLC
Dodgy ex-Mayor BOLES, who made a career of bilking the City (along with ex-Mayor CLAUDE LEONARD WEEKS, JR.) previously went through the motions of wanting the CIty to exploit the 450th branding, was apparently okay with the scam, having appeared on a program in October with the procedures. In fact, one of the Mummy Cat producers, LURA READLE SCARPITTI, the new Chair of the Chamber of Commerce's Tourism and Hospitality Council, who also puts out a snooty rich-white-guy magazine on 80 pound color card stock ("OLD CITY LIFE"), appeared with her husband (ANTHONY SCARPITTI employed in PR by Sawgrass County Club, whose CEO was VCB Chair) in our City Manager's horse-drawn carriage during Nights of Lights. Small world for these monopolists and no-bid contract beneficiaries.
Meanwhile, bilious wight BOLES was scheduled to be "master of ceremonies" of the annual perverted, fetishistic "gala" in honor of bloodthirsty Pedro Menedez de Aviles, the murderer who founded St. Augustine (whose 1566 anti-Gay hate crime was the first in North America, unobserved so far by our City and State in their airbrushed observances of the anniversaries of the founding of Spanish Florida and of St. Augustine (named after an African bishop). We'll just see about that.
Meanwhile, the dodgy Tallahassee lobbyist-directed SUNSHINE NEWS erroneously reported January 6, 2015 that BOLES was still Mayor, still not running a correction a week after being telephoned and written about it. Errors and no facts, eh?
Meanwhile, the ethically-challenged City staff continued with their mediocrity and mendacity (below), slow-dancing with the Yacht Club and proposing Sunshine and Open records violations by the St. Augustine-Flagler College Town and Gown Task Force.
The 1% are partying like it's 1999, as if LEN WEEKS were still Mayor and WILLIAM BRUCE HARRISS a/k/a "BILL HARRISS" were still City Manager. With their all-white police and fire departments and all-white Rotary, country and other clubs, you'd think it was 1860.
For sheer effrontery, they take our cake and steal our treasure.
That's why we need Pope Francis here later this year, to deliver a stunning rebuke like he delivered against the corrupt Roman curia, excoriating depredations of our environment and history, Xtrevilism, vanilla greed, genocide, racism, homophobia, waste, fraud, abuse, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, flummery, dupery, nincompoopery, incompetence and no-bid contracts.
What do you reckon?
Sorry, but I don't think eve a papal exorcism will work.
ReplyDeleteThe players have gotten away with this and so much more and it is only now, with the change of regimes, that we are learning how deep the corruption goes == and who are up to their necks.
Despotic. Shameful. Lurid.
Keep up the research. We have the right to know where our money has gone.
Mayor Shaver, please demand a forensic audit of the 450th Commemoration dept., from inception to now.
It is our money.
I agree with Clara, forget the pope. I believe that he is in need of a bit of demon cleansing himself.
ReplyDeleteWhat we really need is honest government that will acknowledge and pay back the pigdebt. [Pigdebt is the total amount of recompense due to those who have been harmed, financially, physically, and emotionally, by the willful and intentional immoral usurpation of the 'rule of law' by Xtrevilist pigs for selfish gain.]
Those that hang their hopes on Nancy Shaver are deluding themselves. This is an illegal and immoral government that has empowered itself through gross usurpation of the rule of law. If you want social justice you are going to have to take to the streets with JUST SAY NO TO 450! signs in protest.
Justice for Michelle O'Connell should be a focal point as it is business community silence, recently led by and maintained by Joe Boles and John Regan, that has impeded justice for her for over four years now. This is an issue that the public is already very upset about.
Why is the business community so silent? Because David Shoar is their butt boy who illegally and immorally, selectively and criminally, enforced their Jim Crow laws that allowed them to take control of the city. They are all complicit and have the goods on each other.
When gangster city manager John Regan presented (at the last commission meeting) his over the top arrogant and elite further confiscate and steal from city residents plan for the 450th SELLebration, Nancy Shaver responded; "Nicely done John." Sorry Nancy Shaver, but if you want to come out of this with your good name intact you are going to have to drop the green wall of $ilence game plan and get tough real fast.
Gangster John Regan presented you with a nebulous, hastily cobbled together, and extremely vague 450 plan IN MID JANUARY of the year that the plan should already be in implementation. Significant kick off opening events should already be history. Can we all say POOR PLANNING HERE? With your background Nancy Shaver you know well that a plan of this scope and import should have been structure finalized mid last year. You should have dressed him down AS THE BOOB THAT HE IS AND DISCUSSED HIS RESIGNATION.
Let no one construe that my comments about poor performance of city 'officials' in any way convey legitimacy and validation to their usurped authority. They don't.
The shenanigans that Ed Slavin continually exposes will not be mitigated from within the system. It is street time — JUST SAY NO! TO 450! JUSTICE FOR MICHELLE O'CONNELL!