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Get City Council out of City Management
Contributed by: Richard Yale on 4/21/2008

Enough of this Secular Progressive Cultural Change in Longmont City Government phasing out freedom freedoms of speech, religion and private property without Consent of "We the People"! The effects on the Liberty and Freedom of the People are repugnant to the values of the American and Longmont Republics!. The City Attorney-Prosecutor is the City Council's personal lawyer, not the People's Judicial Officer. In practice and form there is no separation of powers between Council and the enforcement of both civil and criminal violations of the law. This merging of the Chief Judicial Officer for the Administration of Justice with the legislative branch weakens the meaning and effectiveness of the City Charter in protecting individual fundamental rights in the system.

The City Charter makes the City Manager the chief administrative officer of the City, nut Council's assumption of micro-management of City Administration treating the City Manager with the respect due an employee instead of CEO comingles Judicial, Administrative and Legislative powers into Council's majority. City Government's present form of city manager governance is subject to weekly control by seven elected representatives instead of an independent CEO manager accountable to Council professionalism according to the common values held sacred by the American People for over 233 years. Without an independent chief executive officer who is directly accountable by election (City Manager is Council appointment), today's city governance practice is intolerant of any citizens sharing different values than those of Council's noisy supporters concerning resolution of disputes over individual human rights in property and government supporters. Thus, City governance is resolved by its relativity to political correctness by supporters of elected officials instead of the City's duty owed through the Administration to abide with the common value of equal justice for all.

The liberals on Longmont City Council and their noisy supporters have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them as they push their cultural values in Longmont. Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a city without government. The Chaos emerging from the "changes" the Secular Progressives are thrusting on the People without consent do not include: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed."

City Government can only work if citizens; judicial officials; elected, and appointed officials share the same values. Otherwise, it is impossible for Council to address reform due to their supporter's continuum of political intolerance of others' values and the crush of administrative business needing immediate action. It should never be a condition in the new development process to deny God to enjoy the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness in Longmont. Instead, Council rigidly locked itself into a policy that requires the administration of government policy to do just that to the owners of the Union property. This is why the bureaucracy, with the Secular Progressives nipping at their heels with quiescent support from liberals on Council, is pursuing the owners across the county line in an attempt to keep them from using their own property. To protect the future for Longmont's next generation, it is a moral imperative for society that the individual citizens' right to share the primary value of owning, using and enjoying private property be accorded equal respect under City Process and protected. This Secular Progressive Form of Government has become destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

To these ends Councilmay consider promptly drafting a Charter Changeseparatingitself from the Judical and Administrative departments of government whileretaining the present Mayor's position as member of council so the number and representation stay the same, and elevating the City Manager to Mayor, a separately elected Constitutional Office under which all City legal services and enforcement of civil and criminal law are the Mayor/CEO's responsibility. The City Attorney must be accountable to the Mayor, not Council. If Council fails to take responsibility, the Constitutional Initiative processprobably willbe activated by concerned citizens to draftCharter Amendments necessary, insure separation of Judicial, Administrative and Legislative powers in City Government to urge Government to change. If it doesn't then petition and process onto on to Ballot for the People's Consent. A necessitySecular Progressives' want everyone to ignore on their partbecause restoration of a Just Government with separation of powers to protect human rights of the non-elite is not on their agenda.




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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 4/24/2008 @ 5:46:23 PM
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...Richard's 'level of scholarship'... (falls off chair hooting with laughter). You guy freakin slay me. Please, keep writing, by all means. Can't BUY entertainment this good.
Submitted By: Clyde Ioerger
posted on 4/24/2008 @ 12:02:15 PM
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Richard, lack of accountability at any level of government breeds “Administrative Terrorism”. We have the choice of supporting one or the other. Thank you for supporting accountability over the alternative.
Submitted By: Richard Yale
posted on 4/24/2008 @ 11:42:27 AM
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A sign of how deep the corruption of the Constitution has become is implicit in the cocky put downs by Council supporters who openly insult fellow citizens claiming their proxy’s are untouchable because taking your Constitutional rights is their Constitutional right. We are witnessing that a proud society lifted high, metaphorically on Eagle’s Wings, as the United States, is subject to the same irony that brought the Eagle down in Aesop’s Fables: “Someone saw the Eagle and drew a bow and shot him. The arrow drove fast into the Eagle and the feathers stood out plainly before his eyes. They were the feathers from an Eagle’s wing. The Eagle closed its eyes and said, ‘Oh, this is worst of all, to be killed by an arrow with Eagle’s Feathers.' This fable teaches how sore a thing it is to be in peril from what belongs to one’s own self.” Secular progressives would kill the United States with its own Constitution if the citizens are not vigilant and aggressive in protecting the Constitution.
Submitted By: n pratt
posted on 4/23/2008 @ 9:43:28 PM
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I'm shocked to hear Doug can be amused. I thought he was completely devoid of humor. In fact, I thought it was a prerequisite of the secular progressive movement. Those who laugh just might offend and all. Whatever. Like always, Richard, well-written and clearly unimpeachable by the local peachery (I made that word up all by myself, it means "those you would impeach if they had a leg to stand on"). ;-)
Submitted By: David Larison
posted on 4/23/2008 @ 1:37:24 PM
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Richard, Doug Wray can't match your level of scholarship by offering a legitimate rebuttal, so he pulls the sophomoric debate technique of changing the subject (even if slightly) to divert attention from the real issue you are addessing.
Submitted By: Richard Yale
posted on 4/23/2008 @ 12:04:57 PM
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Leave what's federal to our Represenatives and Senators and trust they are making the proper checks and balances without something bad happening. The local issue is something individuals can responsible influence for the good of the order. Is there to be mutual respect for the Rule of Law in this community, or shall the law be politically relative in admin of Civil Justice? Political affilitation is not relevent. No one is above the law and to assert otherwise to my works would be defamatory, or was your initial "goodwill" a ruse? I supported Senator Goldwater when he led the delegation to the White House telling President Nixon to resign. Where were you when it was time to call his marker? All citizens are free to make a better community the future for ourselves without the interference of the State by acting responsibly with mutual respect for neighbors. To assert otherwise is to assert an elite standing in society.
Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 4/22/2008 @ 9:14:10 PM
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So, it's important to hold our LOCAL government accountable, but the Feds get a pass? For someone who seems to style himself a legal expert, you speak little about the loss of Habeus Corpus and the erosion of civil rights, surely those issues must concern you. I constantly hear about the 'nanny state' but no one seems to think that warrantless wiretaps are a problem. Nikolai C was put up against a wall for doing EXACTLY what Bush and Co. are DOING NOW and yet no one speaks up. Sorry, this braying about 'accountability' is specious and a smokescreen.
Submitted By: Richard Yale
posted on 4/22/2008 @ 11:30:28 AM
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I Mr. Wray love and respect my Country and Government regardless of who is in office whether in the Presidency or at home on City Council. In the personal politics of today single issue advocates are overlooking the fact Government is a powerful machine, or legal process, that will tear itself apart while causing ruin and destruction in individual citizens’ lives without checks and balances between the three major departments or systems of Government. President Washington defines it as: “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” No, these suggestions are not irony, but recognition of the fact that failure of the Charter to hold the City Attorney and City Manager independently accountable to the voters on par with members of City Council is a serious deficiency that needs immediate attention.
Submitted By: Ralph Dosser
posted on 4/22/2008 @ 10:55:30 AM
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Sad. Incoherent. Beautiful. Two thumbs up!
Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 4/21/2008 @ 9:23:59 PM
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I find it amusing to hear a supporter of George Bush recommending a 'separation of powers' - you meant that as irony, right?
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Richard Yale has posted 65 stories and 154 comments since joining on 12/13/2007. Richard Yale 's average story rating is 3.95.
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