Breaking News: Bloggers & Commentors Compared to "Bomb Throwers"

President Calvin Coolidge said, "To live under da American Constitution is da greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to da human race."

President Abraham Lincoln said, "Don't interfere with anything in da Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

Manalapan Township Attorney and State Assemblywoman-elect Carolina MachoGrande said, "Da First Amendment didn't mean to provide for anonymous bomb throwing. I’m fairly certain that’s not what the First Amendment or the founding fathers meant when the First Amendment was drafted."

Say What????? Huh????

Here's da story....

During da November 28 Manalapan Township Committee meeting, this statement was made by Manalapan Township Attorney and State Assemblywoman-elect Carolina MachoGrande in response to a question from an audience member regarding da case of “Da Township of Manalapan vs Da Mosked Man.”

With da Gang of Three playing da role of "See no evil, hear no evil, and looking evil," enter MachoGrande who singlehandedly gave bloggers who believe in Democracy and Liberty a bad case of “MachoGrande’s Revenge” that a truckload of Maalox couldn’t cure.

In da local Snoozepaper, Back Page Barratta's story said da woman also asked "what the township would gain by identifying the blogger."

According to Barratta, da reply was "Casagrande said she would not second guess another attorney's legal strategy." MachoGrande is also quoted (without retraction) in Back Page's story as saying, "There is no one more motivated than an attorney working on a contingency basis."

Does this mean a lawyer isn’t a good or motivated lawyer unless they work on a contingency basis? Does this mean all lawyers are unmotivated if they’re being paid by the hour? MachoGrande is reportedly paid by the hour, so does that make her less motivated?

I would hope that when MachoGrande was in law school they taught da case of Talley vs California, a very famous legal case where da Court said da First Amendment protects the distribution of unsigned handbills. In that decision, Justice Black wrote, "persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all."

In other words, da protection of a person or person's anonymity isn't limited to some types of speech - and da use of da Internet doesn't giver persecutors a green light to remove that protection.

In da December 5 edition of da Snoozepaper, editor Mark Rosman, whose brilliant September 26 editorial helped expose da potential trampling of da First Amendment, dropped another bombshell (not to be confused with MachoGrande’s now-infamous "bomb throwers" line), writing, "As politicians and newspaper editors are finding out these days, criticism of our decisions and our actions is now meat for Internet message boards and blogs. We may not like the jabs our anonymous critics deliver, but unless what they have written about us is absolutely libelous and defamatory, we, as public figures, have little recourse."

"And so after all of that, we come full circle, and I ask you this question. What does all this have to do with Alice? You remember Alice, don't you? Alice is the contaminated soil at those properties on Route 522. Has anybody seen any soil cleaned up yet? I haven't."

Then there’s Editor Bozo Bean, who beside calling daTruthSquad "a baconheaded blogger," and "wouldn't mind seeing da Truth Squad drive off a nice, steep cliff. Given the opportunity, I might even give him (or her, or them) a little push," he also avoided drinking da Gang of Three’s anti-Freedom-of-Speech Kool Aid.

So you know, Bozo and daTruthSquad don't always see eye-to-eye, but daTruthSquad knows this - and Bozo knows it too - Bozo has every right to mock daTruthSquad to his heart’s content. Why -- because of a little-known document in places like Manalapan Town Hall and North Korea known as da First Amendment.

Da Bean wrote da following, "this whole thing looks like nothing but a thinskinned local government's attempt to quash the First Amendment rights of an individual, or individuals, because it doesn't like their opinions. And they're fighting the battle on the taxpayers' dime, without ever asking a single one of those taxpayers whether they wanted the fight in the first place."

Manalapan Township Attorney and State Assemblywoman-elect Carolina MachoGrande said, "Da First Amendment didn't mean to provide for anonymous bomb throwing."

DaTruth is, da case of "Da Township of Manalapan vs Da Mosked Man," as daTruthSquad has been saying all along isn't about a land-deal-gone-bad. It's about Exhibit "L" in da Motion to Quash, a list of 18 times Manalapan’s hired attorney Daniel (being paid by the hour, so does that mean he’s less motivated?) McCarthy alleged that da Mosked man is indeed daTruthSquad. And, it's about a governmental body deciding they did not like what one lone blogger was saying by shining a light on events elected politicians and others wanted to keep hidden from view.

DaTruth is, nobody should be able to pervert da Constitution of da United States because hidden agendas are outed, or truths are told that you don't want others to hear.

Manalapan Township Attorney and State Assemblywoman-elect Carolina MachoGrande said, "Da First Amendment didn't mean to provide for anonymous bomb throwing. I’m fairly certain that’s not what the First Amendment or the founding fathers meant when the First Amendment was drafted."

Fortunately for all da people, da person who is "fairly certain" what da founding fathers were thinking at da time will soon be heading off to Trenton to make da laws of da state of New Jersey.

DaTruthSquad can't wait for da new Jay Leno jokes about this!

Da elected officials of Manalapan took an oath to "uphold da Constitution." For Manalapan's Gang of Three, "See no evil, hear no evil, and looking evil," it does not mean to ignore da parts of da Constitution you don't like, or don't want others to enjoy.

Manalapan Township Attorney and State Assemblywoman-elect Carolina MachoGrande said, "Da First Amendment didn't mean to provide for anonymous bomb throwing. I’m fairly certain that’s not what the First Amendment or the founding fathers meant when the First Amendment was drafted." She may have forgotten that Benjamin Franklin was an anonymous writer, as were da pamphleteers like Alexander Hamilton. They were supported by untold numbers of brave souls who fought for da very freedoms we enjoy today, unless, that is, you write about one very small town in New Jersey that finds fault with da First Amendment.

As a blogger, commentor, or anyone with an opinion that a politician doesn't agree with, the attorney/politician's statement should scare you to the core. It means anyone with an opinion that a politician doesn't agree with can be branded "a bomb thrower," and face taxpayer-funded legal action by 4 lawyers, of which at least 1 is "motivated."

Here's another quote to remember - this from daTruthSquad: “As chains of Democracy are forged, da links intertwined, it's strength cannot be severed by mere words. Then, da first speech censored, da first freedom denied, da first thought forbidden. Now that same chain binds freedom, and Democracy is lost.”

And that's daTruth.