Recently, New London, CT revived the Burning Benedict Arnold Festival, in remembrance of the Sept. 6, 1781 raid on that town, burning most of it to the ground. Derron Wood, organizer and also Artistic Director of New London’s Flock Theatre calls it the “Original Burning Man Festival”.
Victor Chiburis, also of Flock Theatre, said that one year, there were mock Arnold Supporters butit usually is very peaceful and historic.
According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, hanging in effigy was a common form of political protest in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1765, the patriots of Boston lynched the British Imperial Taxman
There were also traditional burnings in effigy of Robert Lundy, who betrayed the defense of Derry with Ian Paisley describing Margaret Thatcher and David Trimble as “Lundies”.
In present times both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been hung in effigy if not burned. These deeds are protected by the First Amendment. Similarly, Mexicans were also burning Trump effigies.
The Times of India indicates burning a politician in effigy is not considered a crime except for “rash and negligent handling of fire or combustible matter”.
Going further back in history, we have the “burning of Judas” and the last known case of that was in Liverpool, England in 1971. To my knowledge, it’s not a practice in any US Churches.
The final citation is not a person burned in effigy but Covid 19
One wonders whether there should be an unofficial US Effigy Day, perhaps every Sept. 6, as an unofficial day of protest against whatever tyrants groups choose.
Accept one another William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 9-25-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
Romans 15:7
Christ Continues To Catch People — He told Simon and his companions to sail off a little from the land and to let down the net for a draught. But they replied that they had been toiling the whole night and had caught nothing. However, in the name of Christ, they let down the net, and immediately it was full of fish.
By a visible sign and by a miraculous type and representation, they were fully convinced that their labor would be rewarded, and the zeal displayed in spreading out the net of the gospel teaching would be fruitful.
Within this net they should most certainly catch the shoals of the heathen.
But note, that neither Simon nor his companions could draw the net to land. Speechless from fright and astonishment for their wonder had made them mute, they beckoned to their partners, to those who shared their labors in fishing, to come and help them in securing their prey.
For many have taken part with the Holy Apostles in their labors, and still do so, especially those who inquire into the meaning of what is written in the holy Gospels.
Yet besides them there are also others: the pastors and teachers and rulers of the people, who are skilled in the doctrines of truth. For the net is still being drawn, while Christ fills it, and calls to conversion those who, according tyo the Scripture phrase, are in the depths of the sea, that is to say, those who live in the surge and waves of world things.
Just wears whatever happens to be in style William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 9-24-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy
Butler County GOP Reorg Called Off By State Party-We just were told that the Pennsylvania GOP has called off the reorganizational meeting it was about to impose on the Butler County Republican Party.
Council Candidate Calls Out Delco Virtue Signaling; Why Is County Supporting Transitioning Kids? — A camera crew came to Delaware County (Pa) Council’s Sept. 20 meeting which was kind of strange as there was nothing particularly controversial on the agenda.
Well, there was item 7A which was a resolution condemning all forms of hateful behavior based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability or religion.
But is that really controversial today?
Anyway, the weirdness increased when a crew member place their own microphone at the podium. The event was being recorded by the county but it seems this group wanted to make sure they got it for themselves.
Whatever could they have been expecting?
The first speaker was Joy Schwartz, a Republican who is running for County Council, Nov. 7.
Did they know she would speak? How could they?
And did they expect her to rant bile like, well, a Democrat?
“You are absolutely right to condemn racism and bigotry and I join you in condemnation of its various forms,” Joy began. “It is vile to divide people into artificial categories with different standards of privilege and treatment. That is the essence of bigotry.”
She said the county was doing just that. She noted that council happily provided a holiday and raised a flag for a trans-activist but rebuffed her request for the raising of the historic Appeal to Heaven flag.
“Is that fair treatment or is that bigotry?” she asked. “It is interesting that the resolution mentions religion last on its list of protected classes.”
She continued:
There is something else I am puzzled about. You need to define “hateful behavior.” Is that thought, word or deed? Is it on social media?
Joy Schwartz withe her former student Kenesha Gales at the Trainer Baconfest
Did Moses commit hateful behavior when he recorded the story of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Did St. Paul commit hateful behavior when he said that certain actions would prevent people from entering heaven?
Is calling out evil hateful behavior?
Is condemning the grooming of children hateful behavior?
Is acknowledgement of biological facts hateful behavior?
And what d0 you do when you observe hateful behavior? Will you go after the haters? Maybe ban them from making public comments?
And how would you gather examples of hateful behavior in order to do that? Would you be doing that through ZenCity AI software?
I also have a comment about Item 10V. The Rosetree Center for Healthy Sexuality. This LLC is encouraging gender transitions for minors and other practices that some would consider immoral.
Oh my goodness!! Did I say something hateful? Did I just commit hateful behavior? Am I going to be banned from public comments? Is this going to ruin my social credit score? I certainly hope not, because then I would have to say goodbye to the First Amendment and hello to the People’s Republic of Delco!”
If the plot with the extra mike was to make Joy look bad, it fizzled.
Council comments at the end of the meeting were strangely reasonable, even informative.
Councilwoman Christine A. Reuther discussed a Children and Youth Services caseworker’s five-page report for August.
“I’m not going to read the whole thing,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking.
She said he was assigned 11 immediate response cases — which are the highest priority ones. Seven cases involved physical abuse of a child and came from hospitals or other mandated reporters. There was a case of a child fatality. There was a case involving the trafficking of a teenage immigrant from Honduras.
She also said there were three cases of children in high-risk-living conditions involving drugs and violence.
She said August is usually considered a slow month.
Coucilman Kevin M. Madden addressed a comment by Carris Kocher who said the way the American flag was displayed in violation of the flag code. Madden conceded that she was right, and that it be fixed.
A liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal being discussed for construction in Chester had been brought up in public comments by a city resident opposed to it.
This opposition makes as much sense as a Jed Clampett opposing an oil well. The world needs Pennsylvania’s natural gas and is willing to pay for it. Build the thing and make sure the people of Chester — and the rest of Delco — get their cut.
And no, Kevin, the people of Chester have not been subject to a history of “environmental racism.” When those polluting shipyards and factories were booming in the 1940s it was a mostly white city. And, don’t be so sure it’s going to stay majority Black. Check out the migration trends.
Are residents of Marcus Hook victims of “environmental racism?” How about those of Tinicum with all those low flying jetliners?
And in another matter Council approved acquiring by eminent domain three properties from unknown owners for the extension of the Chester Creek Trail. The acquisition would be a little more than a tenth of an acre.
Council Candidate Calls Out Delco Virtue Signaling
Maybe we should call them SPD’s, or Second Party Dems, because they don’t have any realistic chance of reaching the Democratic Party debates.
The Democrats are having debates, aren’t they?
Anyway, there are a lot of SPD’s, and some of them express really innovative and challenging ideas. One such candidate is Jimmy Cooper of Georgia, not related to Tennessee Congressman Jim Cooper, or any other Jim Cooper.
Cooper mentions on his website that he is being treated for a recently diagnosed multiple myeloma.
He ran as a Green, for the US House representing Georgia’s 8th District in 2018 and 2020, and for the State of Georgia’s 145th District in 2022. He also volunteered in the campaigns of both Bernie Sanders (D) and Jill Stein (Green).
Though Cooper is running as a Democrat this time, his Greenness can be seen by perusing his 20 pages of issues. Among the ones worth mentioning are the following:
Abolish the Electoral College
Repeal GATT, NAFTA, and Taft-Hartley
Initiate A Basic Income (currently a hot topic in the UK and elsewhere)
Guarantee 100 percent of the necessary medical care that wounded veterans need to heal
Enact House Resolution 568, or the Unhoused Bill of Rights
Statehood for D.C.
Require that police actually live in the communities in which they serve
His other initiatives are available in the twenty pages of issues listed on his web site.
Lastly, he favors Marianne Williamson for president, but only if he doesn’t win.
Education is not the filling of a pail William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 9-22-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Missouri Escapee Arrested In Chesco — Mario Che-Tiul who escaped from a Missouri jail was arrested today, Sept. 21, in Chester County, Pa. in Avondale.
He was facing charges of child molestation.
What was he doing in Chesco?
It sure is a long way from the Show Me State.
Did the word go out on the criminal grapevine that Chesco was a nice, woke place to hide out considering murderer Danelo Cavalcante managed to bust out of Chesco’s prison and spend two weeks on the lam?
