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| Cambridge boots Boy Scouts, calls support for soldiers 'pro-war' |
| 2007-11-15 |
| Cambridge. The Beating Heart of the Peoples Republic... Cambridge - Was it just too pro-war for Cambridge? Of course, they "support the troops", but to allow something like this would actually make it almost look like they actually mean it... A troop of Boy Scouts is wondering why their donation boxes meant for troops in Iraq were thrown out of polling stations last week. Election officials ordered the removal of donation boxes set up by a troop of Cambridge Boy Scouts of America during last Tuesday’s municipal election. A "troop"! Oh, my, how warlike! Effie...my salts! The boxes were set up inside the 33 polling stations around the city to collect donations for soldiers serving overseas in the war in Iraq. Well, boys, your first mistake was not setting some up to collect for the insurgents too. Would've been interesting to see which one filled up first... Marsha Weinerman, executive director of the city’s Election Commission, said the boxes were removed after a resident complained to commission workers about their implied “pro-war” message. Then she jumped in her Mercedes and drove away...power to the proletariat! “We contacted the law department, and it was determined that the best course of action would be to remove the boxes,” Weinerman said. Oh, my...one complaint? Guess we'd better cave. In a column that appears in this week’s Chronicle, Troop leader Jamisean Patterson said the commission twice granted the scouts permission to set up the boxes at the polling stations. “We have never seen anything like this decision in Cambridge before,” Patterson wrote. The city is changing for the worse if decisions like this are allowed to be made.” Guess he hasn't been around Cambridge that long... Weinerman cited a law that prohibits political messages near any polling station in an election. But state law prohibits political messages pertaining to a particular election within 150 feet of any polling station, according to a spokesperson for Secretary of State William Galvin’s office. There is no law stopping someone from promoting an unrelated political message within 150 feet of any polling place. Put some in requesting donations for illegal immigrants and see how fast they get pulled out... While most of the boxes were set up in the lobbies or front entrances of the polling stations, some were placed in the same room as voting booths, according to election workers. Weinerman said the scouts were never given permission to set up the boxes inside the 150-foot boundary.“This was not supporting the war or any politician or political view,” Patterson wrote. Obviously, this is dangerous precedent and these children must be reeducated. Notify the Cambridge School Committee that we have a People's Emergency! Election officials kept the boxes in storage until a troop leader was able to pick them up. I worked over there in the Eighties. They dedicated their Vietnam memorial on one of the Veteran's Days and a few of the guys I worked with that served over there said they were going down to check it out make sure it was meant for Americans and not the Viet Cong. I think they were kidding. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 tu3031, When I saw this, I thought for a minute. Let's see Boy Scouts, Soldiers, a banning of support for the troops donations. It just had to be Cambridge Mass; The Peoples Republic of Moonbats and Moonbat Central. If the Boy Scouts were collecting money to buy Carbon Credits, the locals would have been falling over themselves to donate. |
| Posted by: Delphi 2007-11-15 15:26 |