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Threats Made at Ridgewood Board of Education & Village of Ridgewood Fields Committee Meeting on Tuesday

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Ridgewood NJ, this issue has come up often over the years on the Ridgewood blog ,many people prefer to post anonymously and with good reason. Originally the Ridgewood blog adopted a policy of allowing anonymous posts to protect dissident parents for the School Board and Administrators . The policy became proven when Mayor Paul Aronsohn used the phone “civility” to curtail dissent and even enlisted the help of the old Bergen Record owners to go after Ridgewood dissenters and “gadflies”.

Expressing a dissenting opinion in public forums can sometimes lead to backlash, especially when it comes to hot-button topics like local sports or community projects. A recent example from Ridgewood demonstrates exactly why anonymity is often necessary for some individuals to feel safe sharing their views.

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Reader says The entire success of The Blog is that it enables people (like YOU) to post ANONYMOUSLY

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Apparently you do not understand the word ANONYMOUS. The entire success of The Blog is that it enables people (like YOU) to post ANONYMOUSLY. Clearly you do not want to be identified, you just want to send out anonymous snarky comments. But you are reading the blog, you are posting on the blog, so obviously you enjoy the blog. You have heard the old expression that you cannot have your cake and eat it too. Well, you cannot post anonymously and expect everyone else to be identified. There is a word for people like you, In fact there are are a few words for people like you. At the risk of being impolite while I post anonymously, let me just say that you are apparently not a rocket scientist.

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Reader says this obsession with tagging specific people with specific posts only reinforces the need for PJ to maintain the policy of permitting residents to post anonymously

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This obsession on the part of the Three Amigos and their supporters with tagging specific people with specific posts perceived as being critical to the regime is getting old and only reinforces the continuing need for PJ to maintain the policy of permitting residents to post anonymously within the bounds of propriety. To hear their arbitrary detractors tell the tale, nothing Mr. Sedon or Ms. Knudsen might wish to raise as an issue could ever resonate with the electorate, much less prompt a member of the public to chime in with praise for them at theridgewoodblog.com. This is utter nonsense, of course, because we have two real gems in Knudsen and Sedon, each for their own unique set of fine characteristics and true qualifications. They are striving for and achieving real non-partisan transparency in local government, a sisyphian task if there ever was one. Or perhaps herculean? given the large amounts of manure being generated every week in our version of the Augean Stables.