Friday, November 19, 2010 @ 2:30 a.m.
The first story on the front page of the “Vermont” section of the Burlington Free Press from yesterday, Thursday, November 18, 2010, says “Water splits town, city: Lawsuit cites higher rate paid by town.”
The newspaper is full of ads placed near each other to make pedophilic references; as many or more pedophilic references than just sexual harassment or threatening implications.
Assuming that Jim Fogler, the President and Publisher of the Burlington Free Press, is using code to say that there are people in Vermont who think that I’m right about the newspaper’s activities of the past several months and that there are also people who think I’m overreacting, I have a few things to say.
The implication that the Burlington Free Press is conveying with the way it has been configuring the newspaper is that everything from pedophilia to murder is not only socially acceptable but good. That is also what everyone who has been endorsing the kinds of things that the Burlington Free Press has been doing is stating.
All of the things that the Burlington Free Press has been endorsing are bad; they are serious crimes. People’s thinking and attitudes are what cause them to do everything that they do; when was the last time that you did anything that didn’t either start with a feeling or a thought or that was a behavior that was so ingrained in your habits that you did it without thinking or feeling anything about it? Even your most ingrained habits weren’t always habits; at one point, you did have thoughts and feelings about things that you did that later became habits.
If I were a parent in Vermont, I would be documenting everything that happens in the online and paper Burlington Free Press and in other newspapers, media, schools and businesses in my community every day, and I’d be trying to control my anger in order to stay effective at protesting the situation while assuming that the day is approaching when my child is going to get back from school and say “Today a teacher touched me in such and such a place, and another teacher saw it happen but said it was ok because the Obama administration and a lot of elected officials from and in Vermont say that it’s ok.”
I also think that it’s likely that the title “Water splits town, city,” used as code for this situation, is an exaggeration by the Burlington Free Press about what’s going on; my guess is that a few, sick people and unscrupulous businesses in Vermont either like what’s going on or don’t care, and that they are the only people and businesses in the community who feel that way. If those few, sick people and unscrupulous businesses are still managing to get their agenda published in the Burlington Free Press every day, it’s because they have some of the most powerful people in Vermont on their side, plus the U.S. government and a lot of corporations, including Gannett news service which owns the Burlington Free Press.
When people vote, they have to vote for somebody; they may not like any of the candidates, but then the only other option is not to vote. Somebody had to win the elections in Vermont, and the fact that some of the people who were major endorsers of the harassment won doesn’t mean that of the voters who knew what was going on, most of them liked it or agreed with it.
For everyone who works in government, the first responsibility is to the safety and health of the citizens of that country, state, or city. Even if every citizen in the United States said that he or she wanted to make all of the crimes that the government has been endorsing legal, the government would have an obligation not to make those crimes legal.
The first story on the front page of the “Vermont” section of the Burlington Free Press from yesterday, Thursday, November 18, 2010, says “Water splits town, city: Lawsuit cites higher rate paid by town.”
The newspaper is full of ads placed near each other to make pedophilic references; as many or more pedophilic references than just sexual harassment or threatening implications.
Assuming that Jim Fogler, the President and Publisher of the Burlington Free Press, is using code to say that there are people in Vermont who think that I’m right about the newspaper’s activities of the past several months and that there are also people who think I’m overreacting, I have a few things to say.
The implication that the Burlington Free Press is conveying with the way it has been configuring the newspaper is that everything from pedophilia to murder is not only socially acceptable but good. That is also what everyone who has been endorsing the kinds of things that the Burlington Free Press has been doing is stating.
All of the things that the Burlington Free Press has been endorsing are bad; they are serious crimes. People’s thinking and attitudes are what cause them to do everything that they do; when was the last time that you did anything that didn’t either start with a feeling or a thought or that was a behavior that was so ingrained in your habits that you did it without thinking or feeling anything about it? Even your most ingrained habits weren’t always habits; at one point, you did have thoughts and feelings about things that you did that later became habits.
If I were a parent in Vermont, I would be documenting everything that happens in the online and paper Burlington Free Press and in other newspapers, media, schools and businesses in my community every day, and I’d be trying to control my anger in order to stay effective at protesting the situation while assuming that the day is approaching when my child is going to get back from school and say “Today a teacher touched me in such and such a place, and another teacher saw it happen but said it was ok because the Obama administration and a lot of elected officials from and in Vermont say that it’s ok.”
I also think that it’s likely that the title “Water splits town, city,” used as code for this situation, is an exaggeration by the Burlington Free Press about what’s going on; my guess is that a few, sick people and unscrupulous businesses in Vermont either like what’s going on or don’t care, and that they are the only people and businesses in the community who feel that way. If those few, sick people and unscrupulous businesses are still managing to get their agenda published in the Burlington Free Press every day, it’s because they have some of the most powerful people in Vermont on their side, plus the U.S. government and a lot of corporations, including Gannett news service which owns the Burlington Free Press.
When people vote, they have to vote for somebody; they may not like any of the candidates, but then the only other option is not to vote. Somebody had to win the elections in Vermont, and the fact that some of the people who were major endorsers of the harassment won doesn’t mean that of the voters who knew what was going on, most of them liked it or agreed with it.
For everyone who works in government, the first responsibility is to the safety and health of the citizens of that country, state, or city. Even if every citizen in the United States said that he or she wanted to make all of the crimes that the government has been endorsing legal, the government would have an obligation not to make those crimes legal.
This week's Hometown section of the Burlington Free Press, from the Wednesday, 11/17/10 Burlington Free Press
November 19, 2010
The separate slides in the above slideshow show the 6 grade-school student works that either were based on the color red or that prominently featured discussion of the color red, as prompted by the Burlington Free Press prior to this week’s publication of the Young Writers’ Project.
The next slideshow has a picture of the work
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Copyright L. Kochman November 19, 2010 @ 4:16 a.m.
The separate slides in the above slideshow show the 6 grade-school student works that either were based on the color red or that prominently featured discussion of the color red, as prompted by the Burlington Free Press prior to this week’s publication of the Young Writers’ Project.
The next slideshow has a picture of the work
@ 4:15 a.m. I'm getting a message onscreen from Weebly saying "We're about to upgrade Weebly. Please log out and check back at 2:00 a.m. PST"
What do you want to bet that Weebly plans to suppress my blog, and that once I log out I won't be able to log in again?
Friendster, MyTripJournal.com, Photoblog; I haven't checked back with MyTripJournal. com or Photoblog in a while. If all of those get suppressed, I'll find somewhere to go online until the government decides to give me back my rights.
Copyright L. Kochman November 19, 2010 @ 4:16 a.m.