Just back from my Turkey Trot to CO, good food & family. Gathered my accumulated newspapers to see what I missed in KC during our absence. This news item caught my attention:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/23/3283308/argument-over-civility-leads-to.html#storylink=misearch
Guess our neighbors way south in Gardner, KS had a tiff after a council meeting discussion over the purchase of video equipment, the purpose being to record city council meetings. Appears one alderman told another to "shut up" during the meeting...which eventually led to an assault in a driveway...apparently caught live by video on a phone. wow.
I have wondered from time to time if our proceedings in WL would be different if taped or broadcast. Some cities in the metro do one or both (Parkville, for example). I have caught their council meetings while channel surfing, and other than my occasional urge to watch paint dry, have quickly hit the button to proceed. Councilman Fotovich in Gardner questioned if his fellow councilman Pugh would "behave differently if the public was watching". Guess it could go both ways...some might act out while others might clam up. Might be interesting. In the meantime, our monthly meetings are the model of civility, witnessed by me and Kathy and an occasional Eagle Scout. Last word to Councilman Pugh:
"Being an elected official is a thankless job and you cannot make all the people happy all the time"
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From Thomas Jefferson's 1st State of the Union.
"To this state of general peace with which we have been blessed, one only exception exists. Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer.
I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean, with assurances to that power of our sincere desire to remain in peace, but with orders to protect our commerce against the threatened attack. The measure was seasonable and salutary. The Bey had already declared war. His cruisers were out. Two had arrived at Gibraltar. Our commerce in the Mediterranean was blockaded and that of the Atlantic in peril.
The arrival of our squadron dispelled the danger. One of the Tripolitan cruisers having fallen in with and engaged the small schooner Enterprise, commanded by Lieutenant Sterret, which had gone as a tender to our larger vessels, was captured, after a heavy slaughter of her men, without the loss of a single 1 on our part. The bravery exhibited by our citizens on that element will, I trust, be a testimony to the world that it is not the want of that virtue which makes us seek their peace, but a conscientious desire to direct the energies of our nation to the multiplication of the human race, and not to its destruction. Unauthorized by the Constitution, without the sanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defense, the vessel, being disabled from committing further hostilities, was liberated with its crew."
Rest here; http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29443
*** liberated with its crew? wait what? Didn't he know those were terrirists?
Ah well, "now is the time for action!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhm-22Q0PuM
9:53 Now THAT is paint drying.
Remember the USS liberty
Ron Paul for President
He speaks truth
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