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moniss

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4. Years ago the courts began allowing the government
Sat Jun 28, 2025, 09:36 AM
Jun 2025

to condition the ability to speak at a governmental meeting by requiring the speaker to identify themselves and say where they live. A demonstration of that was at City Council Meetings in insular communities. If a person rose to give comment on a matter but was just an apartment dweller and not a property owner you would see City Council members and Mayors attack the person for not "being a taxpayer and having skin in the game" etc.

More ominously by requiring your name and address it allowed those same people to use the local police for off the record background checks and it also allowed the cronies in the local school administration to target the children of those speakers who might oppose a corrupt action by a City government.

People may think it doesn't happen. I witnessed it being done to people.

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