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Click on the images below to read a letter from this week's Gazette.....
EXCERPT:
In 1966, RFK went to apartheid-era South Africa to stand for freedom of speech. In 2021, a Croton resident wrote to the Village Manager demanding that a MAGA flag on private property be taken down, saying without irony that the flag “should be disturbing to any freedom and fair loving people.”
Joe McCarthy could not have put it any better.
The government of Croton is now engaged in the process of ensuring that there is no further disturbance to the “loving people” of Croton, by requiring that the flag be removed under penalty of law. Freedom of speech is not a value held only by Republicans. Weaponizing our village code enforcement and judiciary to squelch speech was not a Democratic value until recently.
There have been two major First Amendment decisions in the
last two weeks....
AGAIN, CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW TO READ THE ENTIRE LETTER.
Off to court no doubt.
ReplyDeleteIt seems if we lost and there would be appeals, we'd be liable for court costs? Am I understanding that right?
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