"Your zip code should not determine your Constitutional Rights."

[Baitball Blogger]

Just said by Governor Roy Cooper from North Carolina.

Posting, because I felt like my Constitutional rights were violated in the nineties when the great Libertarian advance began in Florida over land issues. I wondered back then, where were the Florida Democrats in all those? Why weren't they protecting our rights? Mostly, I found them aligned with real estate interests. There was no meaningful push back. And because of that, over the years I got to see Florida slide into autocracy (autocrazy?) until now we're dealing with Hitler 2.0, trying to make it into the White House so he can export this insanity to a national level.

So, thank you Governor Roy Cooper, for saying what should have been said twenty five years ago. To everyone else out there, it's now or never.

[2naSalit]

1. I have heard this...

Statement before, I think it came from HRC somewhere in the past. It was certainly a common concept about twenty years ago.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I never saw any evidence of that. Not during the Centrist years, anyway.

And, 2naSalit, though my community story began as a local scandal, I did research for years to try to get an understanding on why it all happened. I would conclude it was a two party issue. The engineering company's board of directors were from Massachusetts and some names were familiar. I followed a trail of newspaper articles on the spoiler developer, and that took me to the Clearwater area. I found a treasure trove of articles providing plenty of information on his family, which appeared to be influencers--for both parties. Father had just been disbarred (something about offering to sell pardons?) , but it seemed that they/he still served a purpose because they could translate Arabic to English. This became a valuable commodity when George Bush's administration removed gay translators and there was a deficiency that would later aggravate all the protocols that could have prevented 9/11.

There is a horrible gray area that gets played out based on campaign donations and/or national security. Too many exceptions are made "for the good of the public" and it rarely improves things for us on the local level.

My opinion based on personal research.