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As insurrection raged, a South Florida video blogger provided a play-by-play – to Russians
By Kevin G. Hall April 14, 2021 Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article250505589.html
“The Russian-speaking video blogger from South Florida walked alongside the throngs wearing MAGA hats and carrying Trump flags as the crowd descended on the Capitol, heeding the call to disrupt the certification of electoral college results.His broadcast reached Russian speakers across the United States and in the mother country, pushing the Stop the Steal narrative and other debunked election-fraud allegations.
In the digital version of a tip jar, his YouTube and Instagram accounts included electronic payment links to PayPal and Zelle for those who might want to thank him for his broadcasts.”
He got paid for it too. Isn’t that special?
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On 4/10/2021 at 3:18 AM, Richard Booth said:
It's Hood College's archive, it isn't "down" or taken offline, it's just that the interface doesn't work any more.
So, it looks like it's supposed to still be "up" but for all intents and purposes it's useless because it's not working.
Click "browse archive" on the left and you'll see what I mean
I suspect some kind of technical glitch that they may not be aware of at Hood college
Richard,
The search function off the main page seems to be working okay.
I did a quick search for Robert Castorr (Colonel). Here's a small item. The highlighting is mine:
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Matt Gaetz is quite the can opener isn’t he?
As in “can of worms”
Longtime associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz leaves position at lobbying firm
“Chris Dorworth’s biography and photo have been removed from the Ballard Partners website.”
By Mike DeForest,,WKMG News 6 April 9, 2021,
“Chris Dorworth, a former Florida state legislator and longtime associate of Congressman Matt Gaetz, abruptly departed his position at a lobbying firm Friday night.
“Dorworth joined Ballard Partners in 2012 after losing his seat in the Florida House of Representatives in an upset election that deprived the Lake Mary Republican of serving as the next House Speaker.”
“Dorworth served in the Florida legislature alongside Gaetz and has remained close, social media posts suggest.”
“Gaetz, Dorworth and former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg posed for a photograph together outside the White House in June of 2019.”
Intelligence analyst Eric Garland pointed out that Ballard has been former President Donald Trump's "lobbyist of choice in Florida."
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1381213915070279681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...
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On 3/8/2013 at 11:25 AM, Douglas Caddy said:
I am starting a new topic on retired New York Police Department detective James Rothstein...
After being involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 while on the ship Essex, which is covered in the link above, Rothstein was still aboard the Essex in December 1961...
Doug,
Do you know if James Rothstein worked with Jack Caulfied in New York?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Caulfield
From 1953 to 1968, he was an officer with the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
Jack Caulfield, Bearer of a Watergate Message, Dies at 83
By Douglas Martin June 21, 2012
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/us/jack-caulfield-bearer-of-a-watergate-message-dies-at-83.html
“By all accounts, in January 1973, Mr. Caulfield met with James McCord Jr., a former C.I.A. officer and one of the burglars in the Watergate break-in, to tell him that the White House was prepared to grant him clemency, money and a job in return for not testifying against members of the administration and accepting a prison sentence.”
I was shocked one day, when doing some research on Alpha 66, I ran across Jack Caulfield's name. The NYPD;s intelligence bureau's "Red Squad" was doing surveillance on Alpha 66 up in New York.
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That's the way you do it.
"Anybody wanna die now?
Get out of my way!
"Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it"Steve Thomas
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Conspiracy Land
by David Gambacorta, April 7, 2021
The Philadelphia Inquirer
https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/qanon-conspiracy-theory-trump-voting-philadelphia-20210407.html
“He (Eric Ward) was troubled then by federal, state, and local authorities’ reluctance to treat conspiracy and far-right extremist movements as an urgent threat, and worries that the Capitol attack will prove to be the prologue to darker incidents. “We’re going to find ourselves right back to this moment in three years, and it will look much more serious than Jan. 6,” he said. “But no one will believe it until it happens.” “
What happened to Philadelphia election officials in 2020.This is a good read.
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Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT
News accounts all day focused on the attack at the Capitol that left a police officer dead. Many of those news accounts mentioned the Jan 6 riot of Trump supporters after he spent months claiming the election was stolen. Here is his takeaway
This man must never be allowed to hold an office of public trust in the United States, or any other country, for the rest of his life.
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48 minutes ago, Tony Krome said:
How about the same FBI agent that followed Oswald to Dallas from New Orleans?
Pena: When Oswald was transferred to Dallas, de Brueys was transferred to Dallas at the same time.
Tony,
Do you know of a list of Dallas FBI agents back in November of 1963? I know I've seen one somewhere. I don't remember de Brueys being on it. Maybe he wasn't assigned to the Dallas office.
The following is just for curiosity's sake:
FBI Dallas History
https://www.fbi.gov/history/field-office-histories/dallas
Interior of an early Dallas Division office
I was surprised to learn that Gordon Shanklin only became the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Office in April, 1963.
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On 4/1/2021 at 3:13 AM, Tony Krome said:
From Steve's post, referring to the arrival at the Paines;
Guy Rose wrote that after the Deputies showed up, they arrived at the front door at 3:30PM.
Tony,
Yes, the idea that Ruth Paine's address book led to the discovery that Oswald lived on Beckley is bogus.
The DPD and Sheriff's Deputies arrived at the Irving St. front door at 3:30.
The DPD arrived at the Beckley St. front door at 3:00.
And, if the Johnsons are to be believed, they were at Beckley even sooner than that.
If agents of the FBI were at Beckley, possibly as early as 2:00 PM, I would like to know who those agents were.
I have no problem believing that Oswald was an FBI informant, but the information flow from the FBI to local police was not exactly "sterling" shall we say, especially when it involved confidential informants. And, if Hosty is to be believed, the FBI did not know where Oswald lived.
Will Fritz told the Warren Commission that "some officer" told him (Fritz), out in the hall , shortly before Oswald was taken in for questioning, that Oswald lived on Beckley. Fritz never revealed who that officer was, nor did he reveal how that officer would be in possession of that information. I believe that this officer had some connection to military intelligence. I also believe that this officer could have been Billy Senkel, who rode in the parade with Colonel, George Lumpkin, Commandant of the 4150th Reserve Officers Training School in Dallas, and Colonel, George Whitmeyer, who Winston Lawson told the HSCA, "taught military intelligence".
Billy Senkel was also one of the DPD officers dispatched to Beckley St. and. if Earlene Roberts can be believed, twice said that when the police arrived at Beckley, said they were searching for someone named Harvey Lee Oswald.
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6 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
Stella Fay Puckett called her mother Gladys Johnson and said Oswald was being arrested across the street from where she was working. The reply was, "Well, that explains why the FBI is here searching his room."
Jim,
I suspect, but cannot prove, that Gladys Johnson mistook Will Fritz's plain clothed detectives for FBI agents; but to be perfectly honest, I don't know who the hell these people were.
At 2:40 PM, W.E. Potts, B.L. Senkel and Lt. E.L. Cunningham were dispatched to 1026 N. Beckley. Potts wrote in his after-action report (Box 2, Folder# 9, Item# 32) http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box2.htm that after he finished taking some affidavits, Fritz dispatched them to the Beckely St address at 2:40 and they arrived at Beckley at 3:00PM.
Detective B.L. Senkel also said in his after action report (Dallas Police Archives Box 3, Folder# 12, Item#1) that they arrived at 1026 N. Beckley at 3:00PM.
Mick Purdy in the ROKC Forum 12/08/2019https://reopenkennedycase.forumotion.net/t1180p125-did-oswald-deny-living-at-1026-n-beckley
Washington Post reporter Ronnie Duggar?
(The question mark and underlining above are not mine - ST)
Neither one of the Johnson’s, nor Earlene Roberts were taken down to the police station to give affidavits.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340298/m1/1/?q=Affidavits
A search warrant for 1026 N. Beckley wasn't issued until almost 4:00 PM.
Report of Justice of the Peace, David Johnston.
Johnston Exhibit 1
(20H314
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1137#relPageId=334&tab=page
I agree with Richard Booth that if Hosty was so hot to trot to learn where Oswald lived, that he should have tailed Oswald home from work one day, and can't for the life of me figure out why he didn't do so.
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43 minutes ago, Richard Booth said:
It is unusual, but I can see some scenarios by which it would be not so unusual.
Richard,
Not too long ago, I was reading Will Fritz's account of how he planned to spirit Jack Ruby out of jail to take him over to the county jail.
I'm sorry, I don't remember where it was I was reading.
After physically planning the extrication route, Fritz recounted how he phoned in the plans to headquarters using a pay phone to avoid the plans being overheard or leaked.
I was concentrating on something else at the time, and didn't take too much notice, but I wonder if the same thought process was underway here.
When J.D. Tippit needed to make a call, he tried to use the Top Ten Record store. When Ray Hawkins needed to make a call during the search for Tippit's killer, he used the Mobile Gas Station.
I wonder if the law enforcement milieu in Dallas leaked like a sieve.
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On 3/29/2021 at 11:27 AM, Steve Thomas said:
Decker 19H462
Mrs. Payne gave Deputy Walthers a telephone number where she said that Lee Oswald had been staying at, however, she stated that she did not know the address. Officer Walthers then called me by public service giving me this information,Buddy Walthers called Bill Decker on a pay phone?
Doesn't that strike you as just a little bit odd?
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I had been under the impression that the police got the Beckley street address when Officers Stovall, Rose, and Adamcik went to the Irving address and either got the address from Ruth Paine, or she gave them a telephone number that the police crossed referenced.
However, none of the three Dallas City Police officers mentions in their reports getting the Beckley St. address from Ruth Paine.On Friday afternoon November 22nd, 3 Dallas Police Officers and 3 Dallas Co. Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to 2515 W. Fifth St. in Irving Texas. Oswald had been arrested at about 1:50PM, arrived at City Hall after 2:00 PM and was taken into Captain Fritz's office at 2:20PM.
Police Officers Adamcik (7H202), Rose (7H227) and Stovall (7H186) are unanimous in saying that Captain Fritz dispatched them to Irving at 2:30 PM. They are also unanimous in saying that when they arrived at this address, they had to wait for 35-40 minutes for the Deputy Sheriffs to arrive since Irving was outside their jurisdiction.
In his after-action report filed with Chief Curry (City of Dallas archives - JFK Collection) Box 3, Folder# 1, Item# 3 http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box3.htm
Guy Rose wrote that after the Deputies showed up, they arrived at the front door at 3:30PM.
Harry Weatherford, Buddy Walthers, and J. L. Oxford were the deputies dispatched to Irving. You can find their accounts in the Supplementary Reports they filed with Sheriff Decker in volume 19 of the WC Hearings. Walthers, Weatherford and Sheriff Decker all said that Ruth Paine gave them a telephone number where Oswald could be reached and that they criss-crossed that number and came up with the Beckley St. address.
Harry Weatherford, Buddy Walthers, and J.L. Oxford were the Sheriff’s Deputies dispatched to Irving.
Walthers, Weatherford and Sheriff Decker all said that Ruth Paine gave them a telephone number where Oswald could be reached and that they criss-crossed that number and came up with the Beckley St. address.
However, their accounts differ.
Harry Weatherford 19H503 Supplementary Investigation Report filed 11/23/63
I stayed with Mrs. Oswald and Mrs. Payne while the rest of the men searched the house….While standing near the phone bar, I saw a BLACK telephone address book which I picked up and thumbed through, finding in the “O’s” the name of Lee Oswald, Texas School Book Depository and the telephone number. Then another phone number, which I believe was written in PENCIL. I asked what this number was, pointing to this pencil number, and Mrs. Payne said that is the phone where Lee was living.From Richard S. Stovall's Warren Commission testimony 7H190
Concerning a list of items taken out of 2515 W. Fifth St.
“I’ve got listed One BLUE Check telephone index book (addresses) – I’m not sure which bedroom that came from.In her testimony, (3H79-81) describing the search at 2515 W. Fifth St., Ruth Paine makes no mention whatsoever of giving the police Oswald’s telephone number.
Ruth Paine 9H365
Mr. Jenner. Directing your attention to Commission Exhibit No. 402 which is your address book,...Is there anything on any of the entries which appear on those pages which relate to the Oswalds?
Mrs. Paine. The one on the left is the police officer who picked up the address book.
Mr. Jenner. Those are his initials and date that he picked it up?
Mrs. Paine. I don't know who picked it up. And I didn't see it was gone.Mrs. Paine. Yes. He said of the room where he was staying, renting a room, and I could reach him here if she went into labor.
Mr. Jenner. Just stick to this particular occasion. What telephone number – did you record it?
Lee WANTED to be reached (His wife was about to give birth to Rachel)
Mrs. Paine. Yes. In INK in my telephone book.
Mrs. Paine. The number was WH2-1985
Mr. Jenner. He did not give you an address?
Mrs. Paine. No.Buddy Walthers 19H520 Supplementary Investigation Report filed 11/22/63
Mrs. Payne then gave us a telephone number and stated that was the number of Lee Oswald, however, she advised she did not know an address where he was staying. At this time, I called Sheriff Decker and advised him of this and he criss-crossed this telephone number and gave us an address of 1026 N. Beckley. He advised he would dispatch other officers to cover this address.
In his Warren Commission testimony 7H549 taken July 23, 1964, Walthers changes the scenario slightly
"We didn't go to the trouble of looking at any of this stuff much---just more or less confiscated it at the time, and we looked at it there just like that, and then we took all this stuff and put it in the car and then Mrs. Paine got a phone number from Mrs. Oswald where you could call Lee Harvey Oswald in Oak Cliff".
According to Walthers, the Deputies got the phone number after they had loaded the car, and they only got it because Ruth Paine got it from Marina.
Decker 19H462
Mrs. Payne gave Deputy Walthers a telephone number where she said that Lee Oswald had been staying at, however, she stated that she did not know the address. Officer Walthers then called me by public service giving me this information, whereupon, I had called Allan Sweatt, Chief Criminal Deputy and Deputy Clint Lewis to locate this address both by criss cross and also verifying same through telephone company. Mr. Sweatt reported to me that the telephone number was 1026 N. Beckley. At this time I requested that David Johnston, Justice of the Peace, to issue a search warrant to that location for officers to search the premises. Information was obtained at this address from the landlady to the effect that a man by the name of O.H. Lee had been living at this location for a period of two weeks.
Allan Sweatt 19H533 makes no mention of this in his Supplementary Investigation Report file with Sheriff Decker on 11/23/63
J.L. Oxford, the other deputy present, J.L. Oxford Supplementary Investigation Report filed with Sheriff Decker 11/23/63 makes no mention of Ruth Paine giving the police Oswald’s phone number.Was the address book black, or was it blue?
Was the number written in pencil, or was it written in ink?
Did Ruth Paine volunteer the number? Did Harry Weatherford find it? Did Ruth Paine get the number from Marina?
Did Ruth even know that the address book was gone?
So many questions.
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Donald Trump has too much time on his hands and is going crazy over the lack of attention.
I've been picking up references to him hijacking wedding receptions at Mar-A-Lago to get on the microphone.
Here's a 2 minute clip of him doing just that on Saturday night going on about Iran and the border and Biden.
https://www.tmz.com/videos/2021-03-28-032821-donald-trump-1060075/
I know that's what I want in my wedding reception.
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A new digital archive contains 374 US-Native American treaties, available for the first time ever
https://digitreaties.org/treaties/treaties/
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GOP senator defends vote suppression by saying God doesn't want Americans to vote on Sundays
By Brad Reed March 24, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-voter-suppression-2651197346/
“Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) on Wednesday defended Georgia Republicans' proposal to ban early voting on Sundays by saying allowing voting on that day would go against God's word.
The Georgia Republicans' proposal to ban Sunday voting is seen by many critics as a thinly veiled effort to stop Black churches from conducting "souls to the polls" voter drives that helped Democrats win Senate elections in the Peach State earlier this year.
However, Hyde-Smith argued that they're really only interested in obeying God's command to keep the Sabbath Day holy.
"God's word in Exodus 20:18, it says remember the Sabbath and keep it holy," she said."
And THAT is why we have separation of Church and State.
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One thing jumped out at me from this "Diary":
And one thing in response to the Thread itself:
The date of October 28th has bothered me. Something is going on here, but I don't know what.
"Oct. 28(con.) Rima notifies me that pass & registration office wishes to see me about my future. Later Rima and car pick me up and we enter the offices to find four officials waiting for me (all unknown to me)…. What papers do you have to show who and what you are? I give them my discharge papers from the Marine Corps."
He doesn’t use his passport. He doesn’t use his birth certificate, which according to Marguerite, he supposedly had with him.
The Marine discharge papers don’t prove anything.
Why is he carrying his Marine Discharge papers around with him, and why is he using them to prove he is who he says he is?
In the Thread, people have said that Lee Harvey Oswald never applied for Soviet Citizenship. If that is the case, then whose application for citizenship did the Soviets deny?
The Soviets rejected the Soviet citizenship application of Harvey Lee Oswald.
The Soviets did not provide:
a) the actual paper application
b) any denial written and dated, to Oswald, denying his application.
If it wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald's application, then whose was it?
It's a conundrum.
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The GOP's Lauren Boebert, who represents Western Colorado where I used to live, sent out this fundraising email on Monday night following the massacre in Boulder, CO.:
"I told Beto [O'Rourke] 'HELL NO' to taking our guns," Boebert said in the email, which came from her official campaign account. "Now we need to tell [President] Joe Biden."
"Radical liberals in Washington, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and with President Biden's blessing and support are trying to violate your due process and criminalize the private transfer of firearms," she added. "Please help me stand up to the radical gun-grabbing left."
I'm so ashamed.
Steve Thomas
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Sidney Powell argues in new court filing that no reasonable people would believe her election fraud claims
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Mon March 22, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/politics/sidney-powell-dominion-lawsuit-election-fraud/index.html
“In a new court filing, Powell's attorneys write that she was sharing her "opinion" and that the public could reach "their own conclusions" about whether votes were changed by election machines.
"Given the highly charged and political context of the statements, it is clear that Powell was describing the facts on which she based the lawsuits she filed in support of President Trump," Powell's defense lawyers wrote in a court filing on Monday.
"Indeed, Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as 'wild accusations' and 'outlandish claims.' They are repeatedly labelled 'inherently improbable' and even 'impossible.' Such characterizations of the allegedly defamatory statements further support Defendants' position that reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process."”
So take that, all you dumb yahoos rioting at the Capital !
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Today (March 20) is the Spring Equinox. Nature is in perfect balance with the hours of daylight and nighttime being exactly equal. In ancient times, people saw this day as a time of rebirth and renewal.
You can orient yourself because the sun rises due east on this day and sets due west.
So go out and take pictures of Druids and stuff.
Steve Thomas
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FCC fines Texas robocallers record $225m
by Rob Beschizza Mar 18, 2021
https://boingboing.net/2021/03/18/ftc-fines-texas-robocallers-record-225m.html
“My phone is nearly useless: dozens of scam calls daily about car warranties and Microsoft hacks and my myriad of crimes, press 1 or go to jail. So all calls are silenced and I swipe through voicemail transcripts now and again to see if anything was real. The phone companies profit from it and will do only enough to tamp down bad PR, which leaves the regulators, reduced to telling Americans never to answer or return calls from unknown numbers. Perhaps this record $225m fine for robocallers is a good sign of change.”
I’ve been arrested (or least told I had been) 18 times in the last month.
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I like Peter Gabriel. (seriously, I do.)
I like the keyboard player better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iX92QRybGQ
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12 House Republicans vote against bill awarding Congressional medals to police for protecting the Capitol on Jan. 6
bt David Badash March 17, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/house-republicans-oppose-capitol-police/
“The House passed legislation awarding three congressional gold medals to the US Capitol Police and those who protected the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Bill now heads to the Senate.”
The bill reads in part:
“On January 6, 2021, a mob of insurrectionists forced its way into the U.S. Capitol building and congressional office buildings and engaged in acts of vandalism, looting, and violently attacked Capitol Police officers,"
The vote was 413-12. The 12 Republican House Members who voted against the bill were:
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Louie Gohmert
Andy Biggs
Andy Harris
Lance Gooden
Michael Cloud
Andrew Clyde
Bob Good,
Greg Steube
John Rose.
Matt Gaetz
Thomas Massie
Remember their names.
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Florida Republicans pushing proposal that would allow Trump to open casino over local objections
by Travis Gettys March 17, 2021
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-doral/
“Former president Donald Trump may be permitted to turn his struggling Doral golf resort into a gambling destination despite objections from the neighboring community if a Republican proposal goes through the Florida legislature.”
“His younger son Eric Trump, who runs the family's private company, has been promoting the possibility of transforming the resort as Republican state legislators discuss a proposal that would allow developers to transfer gambling licenses to properties in areas that have long prohibited casinos -- and also prohibit local governments from stopping them, reported the Washington Post.
"My understanding is they are trying to take the gambling permits that are in South Florida and make them portable, and preempt local governments from stopping them," said Miami Beach mayor Dan Gelber, a Democrat and longtime gambling opponent.”
“"This guy has bankrupted every casino he's ever run," said Democratic state Rep. Joseph Geller. "How do you bankrupt a casino? I don't think we need a failed casino. We don't want to be the next Atlantic City."”
Steve Thomas
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
in Political Discussions
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A group of anti-maskers in Sandpoint, Idaho this week protested a local library and criticized it for making "health and safety" its top priority.
The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that protesters gathered this week to demand that the Sandpoint Library rescind its mask mandate and let them into the library without any kind of face covering.
Protester Grant Dorman, for one, criticized the library's policy of prioritizing the health of its staff and patrons.
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Once upon a time, I interviewed for a job as the Director of that Library. Thank goodness I didn't take it.
Steve Thomas