Killing Mother Teresa

[H2O Man]

“I could kill Mother Teresa and this dog would still love me.”
Sidney Town Supervisor Bob McCarthy; “One Small Town's Battle for Tolerance”; Washington Post; December 12, 2010


This fall, I have written about the controversy in the town of Sidney, located in the rural Delaware County in upstate New York. When three Tea Party activists on the Town Board ( including Supervisor Bob McCarthy, his step-son Eric Wilson, and his best friend John Schaffer) attempted to force the removal of the burial remains of two Muslims from a local cemetery, it resulted in national and international media attention. The Huffington Post, MSNBC's Countdown, and the Colbert Report all documented the Islamophobia of the Town Board, giving the community a bad name.

Over the past three months, residents in and around the town came to the aid of the tiny Sufi settlement that the Tea Party radicals were attacking. Hundreds of citizens organized to support their Sufi neighbors. As they began to focus their attention on Bob McCarthy & Co., they learned that there were numerous other areas of concern.

Among them were McCarthy's attacks upon the county's DWI Coordinator. In a letter that the citizens group made public, and which I previously posted here, McCarthy expressed his views that DWI laws are over-enforced and unconstitutional. He stated that this country was founded on men drinking in taverns. He also threatened the DWI Coordinator's job in two letters. Although she took the least effective program in the state and turned it into the top-rated DWI program in the entire state – and one that actually made money for Delaware County – McCarthy has succeeded in having her terminated.

In another display of class, McCarthy has turned his anger towards Sidney's Boys & Girls Club. A journalist that I hold in high regard told me that McCarthy said the club onle serves “young hoodlums who will end up on welfare, anyhow.”

McCarthy has also gone through at least three accounting firms in the past year. There are missing funds. The accountants have said that McCarthy is impossible to work for. On top of this, McCarthy has refused to respond to numerous “freedom of information” requests that the citizens group has made. More, he has failed to file the required monthly reports, which are by law open to the public, for the entire year that he has been in office.

The NYS Comptroller's Office, and the State Attorney General, have been reviewing both the citizens complaints and town records. They may be making a decision to proceed against McCarthy, today.

As obnoxious as McCarthy is – and he is indeed a repulsive excuse for a human being – even I was stunned by the Mother Teresa statement that he made to AP's senior political writer, Helen O'Neill. What type of sick mind even thinks such thoughts, much less says them out loud?

The answer, of course, is the mind of a Tea Party radical. A man who hates a DWI Coordinator; who despises the youngsters at a Boys & Girls Club; who demands that Muslims' graves be desecrated; and who believes that he is above the law.

More important, the answer to “how do we deal with such sickness?” is found in the community response in the remote Town of Sidney. Good people must stand up to this type of madness. They have to organize, and oppose those who feel justified in attacking people they believe are vulnerable and defenseless.

I will try “linking” the AP article, along with an AP video report on Sidney. Hopefully these links will work; however, if not, they can be found on the FaceBook group “Impeach Bob McCarthy.”

Also, I would again like to thank those members of this forum who have previously signed petitions, etc., in support of the Good People of Sidney, NY.

Peace,
H2O Man

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/11/AR2010121101333_pf.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vkgu18wV4

[mmonk]

1. I'm glad you have made note of the Facebook group

since I am a member of Facebook.

Thanks

[hlthe2b]

2. I am reminded of this story: the "unsolved" death of MO town bully

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=224x4769

Not advocating for anything like this of course, but it does show what happens when the people have had enough and find their systems for protecting them have failed. Hopefullly the NYS Attorney General and Comptroller will step in.


Town Mute for 30 Years About a Bully’s Killing
SKIDMORE, Mo. — The murder of Ken Rex McElroy took place in plain view of dozens of residents of this small farm town, under the glare of the morning sun. But in a dramatic act of solidarity with the gunman, every witness, save the dead man’s wife, denied seeing who had pulled the trigger.

The killing was a shocking end for a notoriously brutal man who had terrorized the area for years with seeming impunity from the law until he was struck down in a moment of vigilante justice. It was also the first major case for a young county prosecutor, not far removed from law school and just months into the job, who said he was confident that the case would be solved soon.

But the silence of the townspeople held. Now, nearly 30 years later, that prosecutor, David A. Baird, is preparing to leave office with his first and most famous case still unsolved.

No one has ever been brought to trial in Mr. McElroy’s death, and, although there is no statute of limitations on murder, most people around here suspect that no one ever will be.
--more at link--

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/us/16bully.html?nl=to...

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, H2OMan.

[H2O Man]

4. As of today,

the AP article by Ms. O'Neill has gotten more response than any in their history.

[alsame]

5. "What type of sick mind?" A Teabagger mind is indeed

sick.

Though not as heinous as the Mother Teresa comment, last night on Hardball a Teabagger bigshot was discussing the tax bill and referred to the extension of UI as 'garbage'.

It rattled me to hear someone admit - on national TV - such callous disregard for their fellow human beings.

You're right - good people must stop the madness. Darkness is overcome by the light.

K&R

[kgnu_fan]

6. ...

[myrna minx]

7. K&R n/t

[rosesaylavee]

8. K and R

And thanks for the facebook page info. I have a sinking feeling that we are all going to become very intimately involved in learning how our impeachment laws work in the next few years. This sounds as if the man thinks he can't be ousted and is above the law. Meanwhile, I am sure, important business in the township is NOT being attended to... which surprisingly semes to be ok with tea partiers.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Hear, hear to the good people coming together! K&R n/t