Sussex Democrats use Commissioners’ meeting to bash “white” people

The top brass of the Sussex County Democrats were drafted in to divert attention from the tragic COVID deaths that occurred under Governor Murphy’s watch in Sussex nursing homes. The Democrat State Committeewoman, former county Chairwoman, and county candidates like Kristy Lavin all did their best to take the focus off Murphy’s dead and place it on… wait for it… white racism!

Yes, politics at its worst. Politics tarted up to look like activism. Except the face paint wasn’t right, the garb soiled, inside and out.

The message of the Democrats and their followers was clear at last evening’s meeting of Sussex County’s Board of Commissioners: If you are white, you are the problem. They pushed hard to change the subject. Even brought in a speech by an impassioned member of Black Lives Matter.

Again and again, using highly charged and emotional arguments, the Democrats explained why whiteness was the number one problem in America – and especially in Sussex County. It was described as a bigger problem than COVID.

White children appeared to be a special problem for the Democrats. It seems the Democrats believe white kids to be rather blood-thirsty, relentlessly stalking children “of color”. What these children need, it was suggested, was a form of detention and re-education. The Democrats already have a camp in Andover – mothballed, of course – but one that could be reopened for their purposes in short order.

This assault on children is of particular concern because of the effect it could have on their emotional and mental wellbeing. Telling innocent children that they are the carriers of “systemic racism” and guilty of all manner of horrible things based merely on the color of their skin is quite a wicked thing to do. We wonder how this jives with Democrat Lavin’s day job as a state licensed social worker? Sounds like child abuse to us. She should do a better job of setting boundaries for her party’s acolytes.

But it doesn’t stop with children. The Democrats hate the police as well. One Democrat activist flat out told Commissioners that “Blue Lives don’t Matter.” That’s right. The Sussex Democrats believe that if you are a police officer, or the family member of a police officer, your life doesn’t matter. And the woman who said that was a real sweetheart.

We intend to make a transcription of the meeting with all its high notes and turn it into a kind of spoken word poem about the madness of a kind of certainty that comes from feeling so good about yourself, so righteous, that you think you get to destroy other people who don’t fit into your ideological framework… like Pol Pot did in Cambodia. Apparently, the madness is all around us, as this video makes clear…

Demanding polite behavior is something necessary for a democratic society. But demanding that people think a certain way – and that you have the right of access into their brains to train them how to think – that is the very embodiment of a totalitarian dystopia. If you love liberal democracy – you must resist these people.

The Sussex County Commissioners placed a draft resolution up for discussion that took clear aim at Governor Phil Murphy’s nearly year long rule by edict. While giving praise to Murphy, the resolution was promptly attacked by someone who looked like Democrat State Committeewoman Michelle Van Allen. Although it could have been Michael Schnackenberg made up to look like Van Allen. She does get her identities confused. The resolution reads:

Whereas, Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order No. 222 on February 17, 2021; and

Whereas, Executive Order No. 222 extends the Public Health Emergency that was declared on March 9, 2020 through Executive Order No. 103, which was previously extended in 2020 on April 7, May 6, June 4, July 2, August 1, August 27, September 25, October 24, November 22, and December 21, and again in 2021 on January 19; and

Whereas, under the Emergency Health Powers Act, a declared public health emergency expires after 30 days unless renewed; and

Whereas, Executive Order No. 222 extends all Executive Orders issued under the Governor's authority under the Emergency Health Powers Act. It also extends all actions taken by any Executive Branch departments and agencies in response to the Public Health Emergency presented by the COVID-19 outbreak; and

Whereas, the Executive is designed to be just one of three co-equal branches of government in the State of New Jersey; and

Whereas, this continued rule by Executive Order has undermined the representative Legislature and denigrated the democratic process; and

Whereas, the results of this rule by Executive Order are clear have been injurious to the wellbeing of our State and its people; including:

- Over 7,000 deaths in nursing and veterans' homes attributable to Executive Order 103;

- The economic fallout from the closure of main street businesses;

- The loss of jobs and income without the creation of a temporary safety net to address the basic needs of the people, like food, housing, and health care;

- The effects of these Executive Orders on our God-given freedoms contained within the Bill of Rights.

Be It Resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Sussex County, New Jersey:

1. This Board asks that the Governor sign no further extension of the Emergency Health Powers Act and immediately takes steps to return the State to constitutional government and democratic ideals.

2. Copies of this resolution, shall be transmitted by the Clerk of the Board to the Governor, the Lt. Governor, the Attorney General, and to the Leadership of both Chambers of the New Jersey Legislature.

The madness that comes with the certainty that you are both right and good. The banishment of scruples, so that whatever you do to another human being – however you injure them – is covered by that certainty. This is what we heard in the earnest, choked voices of last evening.

We have been warned about this before, in another context, by that good liberal, Mrs. Lillian Smith. A Southern writer, she was a pioneer in the battle to end segregation. We recommend her book, The Winner Names the Age. In it, you will find this passage she wrote when she accepted the Charles S. Johnson Award for her work:

“It is his millions of relationships that will give man his humanity… It is not our ideological rights that are important but the quality of our relationships with each other, with all men, with knowledge and art and God that count.

The civil rights movement has done a magnificent job but it is now faced with the ancient choice between good and evil, between love for all men and lust for a group’s power.”

“Every group on earth that has put ideology before human relations has failed; always disaster and bitterness and bloodshed have come. This movement, too, may fail. If it does, it will be because it aroused in men more hate than love, more concern for their own group than for all people, more lust for power than compassion for human need.”

“We must avoid the trap of totalism which lures a man into thinking there is only one way, one answer, one option, and that others must be forced into this One Way, and forced into it Now.”

Lillian Smith
author and civil rights pioneer
(on accepting the Charles S. Johnson Award for her work)

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Herald admits it lied – corrects story that falsely attacks Commissioner Dawn Fantasia

Update to the story below. The New Jersey Herald has issued a correction.

By Sussex Watchdog

There are two reporters from the New Jersey Herald who need to resign immediately. Because they lied. Because they simply made up something to push a political agenda.

The New Jersey Herald is subsidized by the property taxpayers of Sussex County. That subsidy is in the form of public notices, required by law to be published in newspapers like the Herald. Millions of dollars worth each year. That’s millions of property tax dollars in the state with the highest property taxes in America. The taxpayers deserve better. They shouldn’t be forced to subsidize lies.

This is the headline from the story Bruce Scruton and Lori Comstock wrote, published, and distributed in the New Jersey Herald today:

Sussex commissioner cites false facts to push anti-hate resolution to include BLM, antifa

 
These are the first paragraphs from the story Bruce Scruton and Lori Comstock wrote, published, and distributed in the New Jersey Herald today:
 
NEWTON — During a heated discussion about anti-hate resolutions last week, the head of the Sussex County Board of Commissioners brought up two instances of vandalism and a reported shooting near the home of Sheriff Michael Strada last summer.

Board Director Dawn Fantasia cited the incidents before proposing a resolution to condemn antifa and Black Lives Matter on Wednesday night. That came amid a debate with local residents over an earlier proposal to condemn white supremacy, neo-Nazism, white nationalists and the riot by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capital Jan. 6.

Here is the text of Board Director Dawn Fantasia’s resolution. Please note that this is also part of the official audio and video record of the Board’s proceedings. It is the official record. There is no getting past it in a court of law:
Anti-Hate Resolution

 
Whereas, those acting on “hate” generally do so from a perceived superiority (ethnic, racial, or other) or certainty about a particular ideological or religious point-of-view.  Examples include Pol Pot’s exterminations in Cambodia, the Nazi Holocaust in Europe, the Soviet Holodomor in the Ukraine, and the Ottoman genocide in Armenia; and  
 
Whereas, history informs us that hate-motivated violence has often been made worse by the interventions of governments.  Examples of this include the sectarian “Troubles” in Northern Ireland, the ethnic conflicts in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the genocide in East Timor, and the on-going genocide of Muslims in Myanmar and China; and
 
Whereas, the word “hate” is a deeply subjective term influenced by any number of cultural, socio-economic, religious, and family influences; and

Whereas, acts of violence against people or property are crimes defined by statute; and

Whereas, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines a “hate crime” as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity”; and

Whereas, not all crimes of violence fall within the FBI’s definition of a “hate crime”. For example, the heinous terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, that caused the deaths of 2,977 human beings are not counted as “hate crimes” by the FBI; and

Whereas, it is in the public interest of the citizens of the State of New Jersey and this great nation to condemn, in the strongest terms, any “hate crimes” or any other “crimes of hate” (such as the attacks on September 11, 2001) motivated by a perceived superiority (ethnic, racial, or other) or certainty about a particular ideological or religious point-of-view; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Sussex County, New Jersey:

1. This Board strongly condemns “hate crimes” or any other “crime of hate” (such as terrorists' attacks like the attacks on September 11, 2001) motivated by a perceived superiority (ethnic, racial, or other) or certainty about a particular ideological or religious point-of-view. In addition, this Board strongly recommends to all its constituents to abide by the timeless values expressed in the "Golden Rule" (Matthew 7:12), that we "do unto others as we would have them do unto us”.

2. The Governor and the Attorney General are encouraged to provide State assistance to victims of “hate crimes” and other “crimes of hate” (such as terrorists' attacks like the attacks on September 11, 2001) and to enhance security measures and improve preparedness at locations that could be the targets of such crimes.

3. Copies of this resolution, shall be transmitted by the Clerk of the Board to the Governor, the Lt. Governor, the Attorney General, and to the Leadership of both Chambers of the New Jersey Legislature.

Bruce Scruton: Liar.

Now, we would like Sussex County Democrats Kristy Lavin, Zoe Heath, Katie Rotondi and their allies to pay very close attention here:

We are offering a $1,000 REWARD if anyone can find the words “Antifa” or “Black Lives Matter” or “BLM” in the anti-hate resolution read into the record by Commissioner Director Dawn Fantasia at last Wednesday’s Board meeting.

If nobody claims the reward, we expect Kristy Lavin, Zoe Heath, Katie Rotondi to have the integrity to demand that the taxpayer subsidy which supports the publication of the New Jersey Herald be withdrawn and other arrangements made. While entirely protected speech under the First Amendment, this kind of blatant lying should not be subsidized by the property taxes of the people of Sussex County. You can lie on your own dime.

And at every Board meeting and proceeding going forward, Sussex County Democrats Kristy Lavin, Zoe Heath, Katie Rotondi should be asked if they have collected the reward yet and about the subsidy. That and, of course, their thoughts on the historical connections between their organization and actual Hitler-saluting Nazis.

And the beat goes on…

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Of
The Society of Professional Journalists

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