During the first public forum held in the Nichols Middle School with the RAPIST Raven 'answering' questions, the careful scripting and PR presentation was clearly transparent.
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His 'HANDLERS' were present in the audience, bored, but gauging public reaction and rating BOS support to ensure no facts were presented.
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This was the first of a number of forums, devoid of facts, filled with propaganda, with inadequate time to allow meaningful questions, carefully scripted.
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Unknown at that time was that RAPIST Raven had been a Portuguese activist proclaiming his proud Portuguese heritage and harassing his Wampanoag peers.
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And the gullible were handing out feathers in support of the Wampanoag, who other than profiting from the casino lucre probably to the tune of + $100,000 for each tribal member annually, have no connection.
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As we subsequently learned, the DEAL was bankrolled by international casino developers, not even Americans!
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Convicted RAPIST Raven Glenn Marshall's script was effectively planned to wave the banner of PATRIOTISM - HIS -- service in Vietnam about which he lied, unrelated to casino development by international developers and much else. Warm & Fuzzies!
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Few recall the factual question that was asked the first time the Rapist Raven used the RACE CARD.
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Wasn't it the question asked by Louise Dery-Wells about compulsive gambling?
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Regardless, the question that was asked was factual and the RAPIST Raven responded with the emotionally charged RACE CARD that was unrelated and inappropriate, but grabbed audience attention.
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The RACE CARD effectively made the point that opposition would be sullied with that accusation by a convicted RAPIST.
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It was effective and some, like Victoria Bond, wife of Selectman Adam Bond, continued to publicly proclaim it.
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I attended the Chamber of Commerce breakfast, with the HANDLERS present, at which the RAPIST Raven did the same thing in response to an unrelated questions because of his inability to respond to the facts. The FACTS weren't/aren't in the script!
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RACISM has been used and is being used in inflammatory rhetoric to prevent the examination of the FACTS.
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The international developers don't want you examining the facts.
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The Connecticut Casinos 'employ' 10,000 and 12,000 respectively.
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The numbers proclaimed by the casinos are HIGH WAGE jobs - receiving ~ $35,000 per year.
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While Wayne Perkins can continue to proclaim the average annual wages of college graduated HOSPITALITY WORKERS, his statements have been dishonest, at best.
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The vast majority of employees are low-wage, menial workers - chambermaids, janitors, housekeepers, bus boys, toilet cleaners, and so on.
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A little personal reflection reveals that more worker bees are required than queens to manage mega-casinos.
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Those worker bees are employed through 'outside companies' to distort the salary figures by the casinos.
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They can accurately claim that 'average casino wages' are $35,000 per year because they don't hire the $7 an hour workers.
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Accusations of hiring illegal immigrants or 'guest workers' are successfully separated from the casinos.
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The low-wage workers possess so little English proficiency that both Connecticut casinos must offer courses to provide enough proficiency to accomplish their jobs.
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The single-family homes in Montville, CT, host of Mohegan Sun, that are used to house low wage workers in over-crowded conditions are called 'Hut Houses.'
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The low-wage workers at Mohegan Sun are primarily Asians with little language proficiency.
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Because the low-wage workers are unable to afford transportation, they walk to work. Hence, the somewhat derogatory term 'Ho Chi Mihn' trail for the lines of workers walking to and from work.
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The town of Clark, CT had 2 ESL teachers, but now requires 100.
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The towns surrounding Foxwoods teach + 30 different languages.
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On the Cape, the desperation for 'affordable' housing for seasonal guest workers has led to 'Hot Bedding,' a practice in which single family homes are converted to sub-standard housing, successfully destroying neighborhoods and diminishing property values - the local tax base.
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Because this practice was fully known to Middleboro officials, it has been addressed in a number of memos and public discussions regarding zoning changes and enforcement requirements.
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Sorry that those who continue to proclaim the RACE CARD have overlooked the hidden wording.
To those who pretend to seek the facts, I might suggest that you call the towns surrounding the 2 Connecticut Monsters that have destroyed the surrounding communities and ask for statistical comparisons.
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Or do the research yourself regarding the decrease in per capita wages, increases in crime, DUIs, and so on.
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Let's drop the inflammatory rhetoric the casino investors have instructed and start discussing the facts.
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Montville, CT went from 2 full time police officers to 22 full time officers. And examine the DUIs caused by the casinos allowing patrons plied with free drinks to depart the gambling floor when their money is spent.
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Sovereign nations are immune from liability of turning the inebriated onto the streets in their vehicles.
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The inability of low wage workers to afford health care has avoided public discussion. And the failure of this issue to be included in the $7 Million Agreement needs to be addressed.
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The willingness of some, salivating over additional tax dollars, to endorse an agreement before the details were known and before facts were considered, has discredited them and done a disservice to the town.
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It's time to re-think the facts.
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Footnote: I found the RACE CARD offensive the first time it was used, but it appears to be raising it ugly head among the blindfolded. It's time to expose the vermin and mold to the sunlight to disperse and it's time to expose the casino developers' shallow rhetoric for what it is.
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One newly registered Middleboro voter that I called was + 60 years old. When I reminded him of the Town Meeting from Hell, he indicated that he was Wampanoag and had registered to vote to support the casino that would provide an annual income that would allow him to move from the 'hell hole of a town' and not have to work. At least he was honest and without claiming 'heritage.'
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Let's start being honest with ourselves.
6 comments:
Come on! RAPIST Raven is an unfair and inaccurate name.
Try LYING RAPIST Raven. There. Much more accurate.
Yet despite his past and current lies, I still trust him.......NOT!!
Jesse,
I to attended the Nichols Middle School casino info night. At the time I was undecided and open to information. What I came away with was the same feeling that you have expressed here. The "Race Card" was played in response to a perfectly reasonable question. I believe it was played to try and discredit and intimidate those who would fight against the casino. What it basicly said was "If you are against the casino, you will be labeled a racist. I left the meeting with a creepy feeling about Mr. Marshall. My feelings proved to be true. Mr. Marshall's promises were hollow and meaningless. In my opinion the whole group is suspect. Are these the people we want running our town?
Fuzzy Math:
ESL teacher $60K + $15K health insurance= $75K
100 ESL TeachersX$75K= $7.5 MILLION
Cost of language interpreters for Emergency Medical Personnel?
Who's paying for this?
Mr. Brown,
You must be congratulated for successfully maintaining a closed mind and repeating the casino developers' propaganda faithfully.
They must be proud.
But in your inflammatory proclamations, you prevent discussion of the cost of mitigation and the potential impacts on the region.
Should the casino developers determine to hire solely non-English speaking Israelis and I raise the issue of the mitigation costs, does that make me an anti-Semite?
Or should they decide to employ only blind people and I ask the cost of access, does that make me anti-blind people? or anti-handicapped?
Morton Hospital and the surrounding medical services and municipal facilities have accomplished much in providing translation services to accomplish their goals. But add additional languages and those accomplishments fade.
You have posted on CCT so are fully aware of the articles that were published regarding the impacts of large numbers of non-English speaking residents. One of the articles wrote about a police officer who, as I recall, had a translator on his radio at an accident scene and was forced to relay the conversation.
Before you readily label me as provincial, let me assure you that I lived and travelled in non-English-speaking countries. At one point, I sought medical care at a non-English speaking facility.
I would instead suggest that it appears to be you who are provincial and unaware of the factual issues that need to be addressed, discussed and costs determined.
These costs will affect ALL surrounding communities, services and school systems.
Nor do I find it acceptable to have a military 'brat' who moved to Middleboro convinced of her cultural superiority amongst the rabble pontificate about diversity.
This isn't about your superiority.
It's about what the impacts will cost.
Why don't these people go to work for the casino investers now?
There already doing thier bidding.
Mr. Bond should already be on there payroll.
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