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What if you hold a protest rally and nobody comes?
By adamg on Thu, 07/02/2015 - 8:52am
Mike Deehan gives us a bird's-eye view of a John Birch Society protest thing in the State House that was ignored by pretty much everybody except him. One of the two organizers was, of course, the JBS's Boston point man, Harold Shurtleff of West Roxbury, who normally devotes his time to ensuring every public bulletin board in West Roxbury and Roslindale has fliers for the society's youth camp.
Bonus fun fact: The society was originally headquartered in our very own Belmont.
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Nobody even protested their protest!
That's the very definition of impotent.
Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles
Kevin Drum:
Pride of Boston
NAMBLA originated in Boston.
True Fact
Their religious wing was protected and enabled from Lake Street in Brighton for years. Their leader retired to Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Same can be said of school
Same can be said of school personnel.
I wonder if the number of teachers, aids, etc being arrested for improper behavior towards students is up there with the priests.
Just today, another was on the news. Teacher arrested for child porn on his computer.
It's probably neck and neck at this point. Both in positions of trust.
Key Difference
The school system has these people arrested and fired, not reassigned to positions where they can find fresh victims.
They also don't shame and physically assault the victims for mentioning it.
They also don't shame and
They also don't shame and physically assault the victims for mentioning it.
How do you know?
tell that to Joe Paterno
tell that to Joe Paterno
Much to the neighbors' dismay
Meanwhile on the left there was a 4am protest rally in front of Walsh's empty house.
Boston 2024 Gained Much Support
Their is no better way than to drive the moderates / undecideds out by murdering them as was done by the FLN in Algeria in the late 1950's.
If that doesn't work you can always wake up Savin Hill at 4 in the morning protesting. Black Lives Matter and the moron wing of the otherwise very smart No Boston Olympics crowd may have just opened up the neighborhood acceptance of Bayside being an Olympic Village with their idiotic (again) tactics.
A bit far afield, are we?
Algeria in the late 1950s, really?
I was reading Paul Johnson the other night.
His stuff on the brutality on both sides of the Algerian - French war got stuck in my head.
Hal and that other guy
"realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face? We can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." I call for the immediate dissolution of the MWRA.
wellesley is fluoride free
They can move to Wellesley, my dentist reminds me twice yearly they still don't flourinate there.
Way ahead of the Commie
free curve....
Wellesley water
Wow, that's unbelievable! With so many nice sets of choppers around Town, I thought for sure that there must be fluoride in the water.
Oh, wait, anon and his/her dentist are wrong.
The water in Wellesley is not as good as MWRA water (which makes up only a small portion of the Wellesley water), but there's definitely added fluoride in it.
Where does the rest of the water....
... come from?
Apparently, from wells in town.
[from the same page].
Hmm wells in town. Wells in town
How did they get the name for that place anyway?
If you really want to know ...
It's named for Samuel Welles, who married the daughter of local landed gentry H. Hollis Hunnewell, who led the upstanding residents of what was then the western end of Needham in a successful revolt that ended with the creation of the new town - which he decided in his modest ways to name after his son-in-law (to this day, the Hunnewells live on an estate off Rte. 16 near the Natick line - where they keep a herd of cows).
Well fields
There are seven wells/well fields around Wellesley. The two most visible are on either side of Rt. 9, in the low area east of Mass Bay Community College (where the police lurk in the pump house driveways waiting for speeders.) Another location familiar to many residents is between the Morses Pond Parking Lot and the pond.
Back to the point, yes, Wellesley water is flouridated the same as most municipal water is hereabouts.
That said, with the ubiquity of flouride sources in the modern diet (prepared foods) the benefits of flouridated municipal water may eventually become redundant.
I remember when I came across
I remember when I came across who of their members in front of the post office at a table with a picture of President Obama wearing a Hitler mustache. Lovely, hateful little people.
Not John Birch Society
Those are the LaRoucheites. The John Birchers are the nutjobs of the old country club set. The LaRouche ones are the fascist Philosophy / Poly Sci nerds who turned themselves to submission to a supposed smart person to make themselves feel better.
I saw them as well and was
I saw them as well and was disgusted with their displays. I tried to engage one of the people manning the booths and realized they are just complete nutters.
People like this are best to be ignored for it is attention they seek. I was wrong to try to engage them because that's what they want.
It's hard to bite my tongue sometimes but in these cases, I think its the best option.
Ignoring the LaRouchies
Might get one of them to yell, "Oh, you're afraid to talk to a BLACK MAN?" like one yelled at me near South Station a couple of weeks ago. Wonder if that ever works...
I prefer
LaRouchebags.
Sounds more like Elliot Davis
Sounds more like Elliot Davis.
I believe the Hitler mustache
I believe the Hitler mustache on Obama is from Lyndon Larouche followers which are sort of the Left's equivalent of the JBS, both nests of loons. If you are President and LaRouche followers don't hate you, then you are doing something wrong.
Sorry, you don't know the LaRouchies very well
They haven't been leftists since ol' Lyndon bonked his head or something and decided he was, in fact, a rightist, way back in the day. OK, OK, it was more like some of Mark Rudd's pals at Columbia bonked his head back in the early '70s in one of those internecine battles the activist left devolved into as the Vietnam War wore down.
I don't get the LaRouche people...
They always seem to be young, good looking college student types. What draws them to the rantings of a shriveled up 100 year old d-bag? LaRouche should have fallen out of fashion as a cult three or four decades ago.
The same thing...
Probably the same thing that draws certain reasonably intelligent, could-be-functional young people to the writings *snort* of Ayn Rand. I guess you could most succinctly label it "failure to think things through to their logical conclusion", generously larded with "cherrypicking the facts".
Article V Convention
The event was not a protest rally. It was a press
conference concerning an Article V Convention.
It was in opposition to two resolutions in favor of
such a convention and one against one. I didn't
expect any media on hand. I am thankful that Mr.
Deehan did a story.
The summer camp mention is Camp Constitution. It is independent of The John Birch Society.
The JBS has nothing to do with Lyndon Larouche.
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State House press conference & outreach to legislators
Reading Mike Deehan's article and my comment at the hyperlink: "John Birch Society protest thing", reveals the identity of "that other guy" who's an independent author, constitutional scholar and JBS member, who also participated in the press conference and written information distribution to legislators on the three pending bills re Article V.
Re comments:
1. "extremist" allegation. JBS members and The New American subscribers are Americanists and constitutionalists that support America's founding documents and the American way of life. Common sense logic reveals that un-Americanists and anti-constitutionalists would fit the label of "extremists" against America.
2. I'm aware of the name "Lyndon Larouche"; but, know nothing about the person other than the past knowledge of literature distributed around with the name on it.
For those who were paying attention to state legislation back in 2009, I led the successful 6-month citizen fight at the State House with my constitutional analysis against the draconian Public Health Emergency bill S.2028 and amendments (aka "the pandemic bill"), after the false swine flu scare and after the bill had first passed the State Senate 36-0. To the 6.5M inhabitants of Mass: you're welcome.