December 16,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Its the idea we have the problem with not the people proposing it. Folks is manners learn them they are not just for other people.While we have been told in no uncertain terms, that this is “nothing like the anti-free speech civility committee” we are always concerned and suspicious about “good intentions” of people as well as the whole idea of “intolerance” seems to have morphed into ; if you say anything I disagree with you are automatically “intolerant” . This is not a justification for poor manners but sorry folks there is just some bull sh$t no one should have to put up with. There we go with the”normalization of hateful rhetoric and behavior”. So another words if I don’t do or say exactly what you like and what you want all the time I am hateful. No that’s not going to work sorry just watch TMZ or any of your favorite garbage on TV and you will see nothing but the atrocious behavior.Oh that’s right the rules are different for some of us I forgot but again we saw too much of that with the ex-Hudson county Mayor Ridgewood used to have so I think I’ll pass on that as well.
Friends,
Some residents and I in New Jersey have created a movement called ‘Gate The Hate’ in which we are reaching out to our local town leaders/clergy and getting them to make a statement against intolerance. Below is a video statement that the mayor of the town where I reside just put forth last night as a result of our outreach.
The purpose is to get our local leaders to publicly acknowledge the normalization of hateful rhetoric and behavior, to treat it as non-partisan and to publicly condemn it. This action should not be seen as a ‘one off and we’re all good’ affair but in terms of creating a relationship with our local leaders which can be built upon.
Our hope is to have this action spread from town to town and across our country. If you are interested in learning more or becoming involved, please pm me.
Thanks for your time and all of your effort to protect our great nation.
Dana
That photo makes my skin crawl. Some of the nastiest most uncivil residents in town are depicted there. Jan Phillips, self-appointed queen of diplomacy who trashes Mayor Knudsen every chance she gets. Paul Aronsohn who trashed so many people during his reign of terror that the list of those who escaped his bile would be shorter. Gwenn Hauck, at least I think that is Gwenn Hauck at the easel – the queen of mean who used to throw verbal barbs at residents and elected colleagues alike during public meetings.