Although neither I nor my family attended or watched tonight’s city council meeting (why would we when we follow our leaders, unlike certain other ornery kind), my Next-door Neighbor Nugent watched part of tonight’s city council meeting on city channel 16 (our proud tax-payer owned station that feeds us what we want to hear) and leaned over across the fence in our backyard and told us that what he saw tonight was a fancy-pantsed, no-good liberal hippy (wearing artsy-fartsy headgear, no less) talking WAyyyyyyyyy past the 5-minute century-old, for-the-good-of-the-city, citizen “blow off steam-yak” rule. If he can’t communicate his unpatriotic whines to the council in a period of 5 minutes, then he is not entitled to speak up about anything – period.  We don’t live in France, for Pete’s sake!!! And for this person to be so totally disrespectful to the mayor and the city council members by taking so much of THEIR time at this very important meeting…well, it is just a dirty-rotten shame. He should rot in Hell for it. My Aunt Bertha about let out her famous ear-wrenching Mid-West “BULLROAR” yelp that would have shook the bike-trail ground that righteous hippy rode his bike in on. Well, it is a good thing that Next-door Neighbor Nugent intervened, calmed down my Aunt Bertha (since Uncle Rusty can’t do much as he was inside wasting his time watching stupid TV channel CNN news – shhhheeeeesh!), and then showed us this old photo (below) of him choking a chicken a few years back when he was angry at another citizen who pushed the city too far (when someone accused our beloved former council member, Harry Wingdinger, of sexual exploration when he was only trying to research the city’s youth culture to find out if they prefer indoor or outdoor swimming pools). Next-door Neighbor Nugent told then told us that if a copper don’t take away that hippy and fricassee his heinie the next time he goes over the allotted 5-minutes at a future meeting, then my Next-door Neighbor Nugent might ask his favorite council member “Big Homeboy Bob” to assist him with passing a city ordinance whereas chicken-choking would be legalized once again in this fair city of ours.
Anyway, here is the link to tonight’s attempt one hippy’s attempt at an unpatriotic revolution if you want to watch it.  http://siouxfalls.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=651
Sincerly,
EggBert T.
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Yup, Mr. Free Speech Dave will let his developer and chamber friends rant for as long as they want, but when a normal citizen comes to the podium and calls him out on wasteful spendy he will cut you off . . . I think I have the ACLU’s phone number around here somewhere.
I watched the video last night, and I timed myself. He must have a stopwatch, I started at 4:38 and he tried to stop me at 9:41 on the nose. Talk about anal.
Oh, and one more thing, right after I sat down, the plain clothes PO came over and hovered over my chair, I almost turned around and asked him if needed anything. Dumbass.
Why don’t you just go there in teams of 4 or 5 and when they stop you at 5 minutes, just hand off your notes to the next person and pick up where they left off. Just because they ask you to be respectful doesn’t mean you have to play by their rules.
I think you should call the ACLU. Your elected officials are censoring your speech for no better reason than they don’t want to work any longer than they absolutely have to.
I’m on it. Cooked Rabbit suggested I do my homework on this before I go forward, that is all I will say for now.