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Bill Of Rights Keystone Town Hall Topic — The Bill of Rights, Then and Now, is the topic of tomorrow‘s, April 11, Keystone Town Hall, 7 p.m. at the Desmond Hotel, 1 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, Pa., 19355.
It will be in the amphitheater on the third floor. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
For information email KeystoneTownHall@pm.me
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Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle:
Pope Paul VI
Black Grandmom Handcuffed For Hour After Noting Upper Darby Councilmembers Aren’t Paying Taxes — A rarely used law was levied against an Upper Darby grandmother who dared speak against township’s council plan to raise sewer fees despite two members being in arrears of those fees.
Olivia Taylor of Kent Road in the 6th District was hauled in handcuffs from the council meeting room, Jan. 17.
Four police officers guarding the council room were joined by two others outside to escort the 5-1, 103 pound woman to a police car. She was taken to the station and placed in a locked “cubical.” There were no chairs. She stood for an hour on a bad leg — still in handcuffs — before Sgt. Louis Garay returned to process her.
Two female officers stripped searched her. They removed her jewelry, shirt and bra. She refused to remove her pants, though, and Garay told the female officers to let her be when he was informed.
“I’m in shock at this point,” she said. “I was in a council meeting for God’s sake. I didn’t think I was going to be arrested.”
She was fingerprinted and mug shot.
Ms. Taylor is charged with “disrupting meetings and processions” a state law from 1972. It had been written to protect churches and funerals. It’s a third degree misdemeanor.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court found but two citations of its use in 2013 when it upheld the conviction of a woman who disrupted a procession for a fallen police officer.
Ms. Taylor has been calling attention to the dark side of Upper Darby politics since since she learned that former 6th District Councilman Sheikh Siddique owed $80,000 in back taxes on 40 dilapidated homes that he rented to desperate single moms.
“I’m on every (township council) video since 2017,” she said.
Her targets when arrested were 6th District Councilman David Bantoe, who she says owes $14,000 in back taxes and $3,000 in sewer fees; and 2nd District Councilwoman Jess Branas, who she said had owed $1,187 in sewer fees.
Ms. Taylor got the information via right-to-know requests.
She also says that Council President Hafiz Tunis of the 7th District has 27 outstanding traffic tickets and that his car has been booted six times.
Ms. Taylor says the January police platoon was for her fellow activist Rich Blye. She said police were ordered to arrest him on sight.
Ms. Taylor will have a preliminary hearing, Aug. 25, before District Magistrate Benjamin Johns. She is pleading not guilty.
Upper Darby’s actions are the actions of wannabe tyrants. It would have been no problem for council to have had her removed and sent home. What it did was intimidation. A moral government does not make grandmothers stand in handcuffs for an hour and strip search them because of a shouting match.
Of course, when a chunk of council is already flagrantly violating its own laws, “moral government” can only be sarcasm.
Oh, to really twist in the knife, these bozos identified Ms. Taylor, a proud Black woman, as white on her court docket.
The Fort Orange Press Mystery — Robert Mancini of Media wanted communications between Delaware County and its ballot printer, Fort Orange Press of Albany, N.Y.
The county refused him.
OK, maybe they had a logical reason.
But Mancini appealed to the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records.
Of course, you can see them, the Office said. These are public records. There are no secrets to protect.
The county, however, appealed to county Common Pleas Court, which shockingly and disturbingly and bizarrely overruled the state agency.
At this point the only logical reason is the county is hiding something and something rather bad.
Even the most trusting in government better start going hmmmm.
The Fort Orange Press Mystery
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Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.
John Quigg
Here’s a shot of Eclipse 2024 from Springfield, Delaware County, Pa. at 3:16 this afternoon, April 8. Hope everyone listened to the warnings and stocked up on food and gas and such.
Pondering Illegals At Don Guanella — Rumors fly that Delaware County secretly wants to house illegals at the former Don Guanella buildings on the county’s newly christened 213-acre Delco Woods park between Sproul and Reed roads in Marple Township.
The Marple Commissioners, Monday, April 15, will hold a special meeting where a vote is expected to prevent that by zoning the entire property to open space. This would prohibit any institutional or residential use.
The meeting starts 7 p.m. at the township building 227 S. Sproul Road, Broomall, Pa. 19008.
It will be livestreamed here
We are skeptical of any secret plans to use the site to store illegals.
At the last County Council meeting, Councilman Richard R. Womack expressed what struck us as sincere puzzlement about the rumors of housing illegals. He noted that he had never heard any private or public discussion of a plot from his fellows on council.
Councilwoman Elaine Paul Schaefer, a rather sweet person of the crunchy granola type, spoke strongly against any institutional use of the property. She wants it completely open space despite the existing buildings. This ironically puts her on the same side as those concerned about the illegals.
Proof positive to us, though, was the position of Councilman Kevin Madden, who vehemently denied the buildings would be used to house illegals.
“Oh mercy, we aren’t going to use them to house migrants,” Madden said. “WE ARE GOING TO USE THEM TO HOUSE THE CRIMINALLY INSANE!!!! BWHAHAHAHAHAH!!”
S0rry if we got got your quote wrong, Kevin.
The geist of it’s right, though.
If the Marple Commissioners don’t rezone the property to keep this from happening, they should be the first residents of the House of Madden.
Christ’s love William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
The Lord’s body that made its entrance to the disciples through closed doors was the same as that which issued before the eyes of people from the Virgin’s closed womb at His birth.
Is it surprising that He who was now going to live forever made His entrance through closed doors after His resurrection who on His coming in order to die made His appearance from the unopened womb of a virgin?
But because the faith of those who beheld it wavered concerning the body they could see, He showed them at once His hands and His side, offering them the body that He brought in through the closed doors to touch.
By this action, He revealed two wonderful and, according to human reason, quite contradictory things.
He showed them that after resurrection His body was both incorruptible and yet could be touched.
By showing us that it is incorruptible, He would urge us on toward our reward, and by offering it as touchable He would dispose us toward faith.
He manifested Himself as both incorruptible and touchable to show us that His body after His resurrection was of the same nature as ours but of a different sort of glory.
Saint Gregory the Great
Saint Gregory the Great lived from 540 to 604 becoming pope in 590. The Gregorian chant is attributed to him.
Brow of every man William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit
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Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo