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Apr 11, 2008

Today in local history

Air policeman Frederick Perras, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Perras of 156 Prospect St., arrived home on furlough early yesterday after being graduated from Air Police school at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. via North Adams Transcript

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This is the same Mr. Perras, who will willingly have his property razed costing him $32-$35,000(This property was to support him for his remaining years).

This man served our country and this is how we say thank-you. Not all of us agree with what is happening to you!

It is the Veteran,not the preacher,who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Veteran,not the reporter,who has given us the freedom of press.

It is the Veteran,not the poet,who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Veteran,not the campus organizer,who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the Veteran,not the lawyer,who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Veteran,not the polititian,who has given us the right to vote.

Thank-You Mr. Perras and all Veterans,without your selfless acts we would not have these rights!
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Apr 14, 2008
 
i support the land owners, its their dilapidated buildings i detest.

btw, what is "air police school"? and how did judo fit into that?

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We have no right to steal any persons property!

These properties are not condemned we are taken them using eminent domain. Three eminent domain words; blight, razing and renewal.

I would be very nervous if I owned anything in front or behind Notre Dame church. We will see more blight! If we forced home owners to tear down their homes, don't you think the property would be very attractive to a developer?

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UNTITLED

Ask not what your country can do for you..
Ask what you can do for your country!
These words from an infamous man...
Lead many a young man to a hostile land!
Patriotic and duty bound they recruited for Nam...
While these brave souls fought and died they were protested by draft dodgers and hippies who didn't give a damn! But,more and more young men,now old inside returned home they didn't even get a greeting or thanks! Such was the nature of the Vietnam Veteran to adapt and to overcome the obstacles of the time...
For in the name of Patriotism and Duty and Honor these veterans answered the call during their prime. Now decades later illnesses have taken their toll of the rosters of these true patriots... Agent orange PTSD are names that have surfaced in the lives of our veterans along with the words from those that refused to join in that call for duty, they refer to our patriots as idiots!
Idiots they are not, true blooded Americans they are... Don't forget them citizens of our great land,for they fought and died for you in that hostile land so far!

Written from the heart by Philip D. McMillin
Disabled Vietnam Veteran

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What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the the whole law, all the rest is interpretation.

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Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B", "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

-H.L Mencken

Freedom is recognitiion that no single person,no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us have been put here for a reason and something to offer. It's hard for government planners,no matter how sophisticated,to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact is,bureaucracies are a problem around the world.

-Ronald Reagan
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Hey Transcript - why don't you just rename this the Transcript takecare forum?

How does it feel to be running a public showcase for nutjobs?

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Hey Transcript - why don't you just rename this the Transcript takecare forum?
How does it feel to be running a public showcase for nutjobs?
Thank you for your encouraging words!
Now I must continue to support Mr.Perras.

Leadership is based on inspiration,not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

-William Arthur Ward

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

-Hebert Spencer
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Thank you for your encouraging words!
Now I must continue to support Mr.Perras.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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john wrote:
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am impressed John, very good quote.

The threat of people acting in their enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureacrats,polititians,social workers, as ominios and dangerous.

-W.G. Hill

"Any organisation is like a septic tank. The really big chunks rise to the top."

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"No matter how worthy the cause,it is robbery,theft,and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong."

-Walter E. Williams

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhumane.

-Mahatma Ghandi

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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always can always depend on the support of Paul."

-George Bernard Shaw

Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.

-Frank Barron

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation" The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house.

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The government is merely a servant-- a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong,and to decide who is a patriot and who isn't. It's function is to obey orders, not originate them.

-Mark Twain

The care of human life and happiness,and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

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"Stupid is, as stupid does,"
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I wanna quote too wrote:
"Stupid is, as stupid does,"
-Forrest Gump
I guess I will continuing being stupid then, and you can continuing keeping your blinders on. His life does not effect you after all.

This man deserves one stupid person to care about what's happening to him and I guess that stupid person will have to me!

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

-Will Rogers
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Your broad shoulders are showing!:-) For that, and your defense of dear Mr. Perras, I commend you. Quote on, though there be some brain-dead critics.
I thank you also, Mr. Perras, for your service to our country.

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"The city's not stealing property. It's paying top dollar for the property on the boardwalk."

-Bill Geary

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality,to think,to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

-Ayn Rand
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I repeat - to the publisher of The Transcript - how does it feel to be running a public showcase for nutjobs?
Don't you have enough trouble putting out a paper everyday? Why give the baboons a chance to howl? Let them create their own nutcase display case. Anybody can do it for free on Topix. Why does The Transcript need to run one?
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Transcript takecare forum wrote:
I repeat - to the publisher of The Transcript - how does it feel to be running a public showcase for nutjobs?
Don't you have enough trouble putting out a paper everyday? Why give the baboons a chance to howl? Let them create their own nutcase display case. Anybody can do it for free on Topix. Why does The Transcript need to run one?
i think you hit the nail on the head....it's free...
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