September 2, 2009
The Valdosta Daily Times Reporter Johnna Pinholster did a great job in covering the Public Transportation Issue being stalled….and the millage rate during the Valdosta City Council Meeting on August 31, 2009 at 5:30 pm (Monday) in city chambers.
However the following comments during citizens to be heard portion of the meeting was omitted by our local television and newspaper. Once again, this left citizens deaf, dumb, and blind to the times and unable to make intelligent decisions based on information from this public meeting in the State of Georgia in 2009.
http://medianeeded.blogspot.com/
Moreover I am sure that OUR elected officials are in an outrage because of this omission. But let us first look at the old Valdosta City Charter that was removed from the Walls of Valdosta City Hall in early 2004. Mainly because I requested that it be removed because it was insulting to all people of good will and so it was removed but not WITHOUT protest by many of our elected officials.
In fact, on May 5, 2005 I was among the fifteen citizens that were arrested for addressing their elected officials on the renaming of Barber Park during a council meeting. I for one was moved from my seat by words from Mayor John Fretti that referred to “Stray animals” or something that reminded me of words within the Old Valdosta City Charter of 1860:
Which read: “In Article 100, Section XI: “THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS AND ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPPRESS AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES.”
So, has the 1860 charter mentality become the keystone NOW being applied to all CITIZENS? If so, how Sad? We have a listing of many newsworthy events that have been ignored by our local media. (Available upon request)
Therefore please e-mail the following information, and give it out to your family members, friends, neighbors, enemies, churches, community organizations, Veterans, and others who want to know what is going on in their community.
The good citizens of South Georgia that are not color blind must stop looking for change, and become the change we need, or our community will forever be in a state of shame and fifty years behind other metropolitan cities in Georgia.
We can, we must, and we will do better----because there is a pendulum swinging in life called "the plumb line of justice." Luke 4; 18.
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity
The Valdosta Daily Times Reporter Johnna Pinholster did a great job in covering the Public Transportation Issue being stalled….and the millage rate during the Valdosta City Council Meeting on August 31, 2009 at 5:30 pm (Monday) in city chambers.
However the following comments during citizens to be heard portion of the meeting was omitted by our local television and newspaper. Once again, this left citizens deaf, dumb, and blind to the times and unable to make intelligent decisions based on information from this public meeting in the State of Georgia in 2009.
http://medianeeded.blogspot.com/
Moreover I am sure that OUR elected officials are in an outrage because of this omission. But let us first look at the old Valdosta City Charter that was removed from the Walls of Valdosta City Hall in early 2004. Mainly because I requested that it be removed because it was insulting to all people of good will and so it was removed but not WITHOUT protest by many of our elected officials.
In fact, on May 5, 2005 I was among the fifteen citizens that were arrested for addressing their elected officials on the renaming of Barber Park during a council meeting. I for one was moved from my seat by words from Mayor John Fretti that referred to “Stray animals” or something that reminded me of words within the Old Valdosta City Charter of 1860:
Which read: “In Article 100, Section XI: “THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS AND ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPPRESS AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES.”
So, has the 1860 charter mentality become the keystone NOW being applied to all CITIZENS? If so, how Sad? We have a listing of many newsworthy events that have been ignored by our local media. (Available upon request)
Therefore please e-mail the following information, and give it out to your family members, friends, neighbors, enemies, churches, community organizations, Veterans, and others who want to know what is going on in their community.
The good citizens of South Georgia that are not color blind must stop looking for change, and become the change we need, or our community will forever be in a state of shame and fifty years behind other metropolitan cities in Georgia.
We can, we must, and we will do better----because there is a pendulum swinging in life called "the plumb line of justice." Luke 4; 18.
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity
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