OK, Who Missed Their 3rd Grade History Class?

If this keeps up, and it will be unfortunate, Manalapan’s cable channel 77 will have to run a disclaimer before political meetings saying, “What you see and hear during township committee meetings may not be historically accurate and may not always contain an accurate assessment of historical events. Please consult any 3rd grade history teacher for accuracy.”

DaTruthSquad can still remember as a young, little TruthTeller sitting in Mrs. Honesty’s 3rd grade history class. She told us about these guys at da center of da history of our great nation. One guy was Alexander Hamilton, another John Jay, and a 3rd was James Madison.

Of course, if they lived today, they’d be chastised as "scandalmongers" and all that is wrong in our world because they dare allow information not tacitly approved by da politicians to be given to we, da peasants under their rule.

Historically speaking, does that sound familiar?

These guys had the unmitigated gall of writing using anonymous names. Historically they’re called heroes. To some politicians, they’re considered a pack of losers! They had the nerve of writing a document known as da Federalist Papers, a document which the 13 original states used to ratify the Constitution. They had real nerve, those anonymous writers. Going against the people trying to run their towns and cities, they wrote anonymously, and yes, in da end, da Constitution was ratified.

It’s not like one of them became da first Chief Justice of da Supreme Court and another President of the United States?

You may remember that document. DaTruthSquad learned in Mrs. Honesty’s 3rd grade history class it’s da document that allows us Freedom of Speech, life, liberty, and da pursuit of happiness. Unfortunately, for some who supported da Manalapan Legal Dream Team to attempt to turn da Constitution into a coaster for their martini glass in da case of “Da Township of Manalapan vs Da Mosked Man,” da concept of “anonymous writers” is not very palatable.

There was another document daTruthSquad learned about in Mrs. Honesty’s class. It was called “Common Sense,” (obviously something not necessarily found in Manalapan Town Hall) and it was written anonymously in January, 1776. Common Sense denounced da current government in power of that day, much like many blogs & bloggers do today. It eventually led to da Revolutionary War. We would later find out it was some knit-wit who “pulled da wings off flies” and was some “dry gulcher” named Thomas Paine.

What we all learned in that 3rd grade history class was that it was anonymous writers who paved da way for da United States of America to be. Without anonymous writers, there would be no pamphlet like “Common Sense,” which paved da way for da Revolutionary War, or da Federalist Papers, which paved da way for da Bill of Rights and da Constitution.

Apparently to some career politicians, da concept of “speaking out” isn’t very palatable.

Why discuss this?

At a recent Manalapan Township meeting, Mayor da Queen spoke openly of her angst about a recent Asbury Park Press story regarding da Mosked man and alleged Manalapan and/or Freehold resident Committeeman Andy Boy. Da Queen spoke of da writers of da Declaration of Independence who signed their names – their real names – and did so not using anonymous names. She also chastised those who blog or write anonymously in forums such as NJ.com and dare to write things that are not taken to well by Manalapan’s political types.

Unfortunately for da Manalapan politicians using taxpayer dollars to fund “Da Township of Manalapan vs Da Mosked Man,” a Superior Court judge in Freehold knows what da First Amendment and da Constitution of the United States is and its importance, as does Supreme Court Justices Thomas & Scalia in their opinion on McIntyre v Ohio Election Commission.

Or better yet, read the Monmouth Superior Court transcript for yourself to see how da Manalapan Legal Dream Team tried to tear Freedom of Speech out of da Constitution – AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE!

Da Queen continues to blame da bloggers for people declining to be involved as volunteers because of the da bloggers. Of course, telling some of them in January that their services are no longer required isn’t a problem.

DaTruthSquad started to think, “Hey, maybe da Queen and her political court have a point? Maybe bloggers are bad? Maybe da local Snoozepaper is right too?

DaTruthSquad kept thinking.

Wasn’t it a blogger that exposed who was behind da “No MegaMall” campaign that thrust da Queen into power?

Wasn’t it a blogger that exposed da connection between current
”Inmate” John Lynch and da head of Monroe’s Pucci Posse and their plan to build da MegaMegaMegaMall within jogging distance of Manalapan?

Wasn’t it a blogger that exposed parts of “Da Township of Manalapan vs Da Mosked Man” which led to da First Amendment court case thrusting Manalapan into worldwide scorn?

Wasn’t it a blogger who exposed da husband of da Manalapan mayor who said “Because I Hate Italians” during a township committee meeting and exposed comments that tried to downplay that heinous comment?

It was anonymous writers that exposed that former Mayor Andy Boy was either living in another town when he was running for office, or just visiting his wife who was living in another town to be closer to her job, or was living with his parents while married and she lived in another town, depending on which newspaper or politician you believe.

It was anonymous writers who first tipped off people about problems with repairs at a Manalapan school.

Bloggers come in many forms. They are modern-day editorial writers - despite what some particular newspaper editors like to think. Newspapers have editorial writers. DaTruthSquad can remember one editorial writer who hoped a certain blogger he doesn’t like would “drive off a cliff,” and he even wrote of his offer to help that wish become reality. That editorial writer is actually held in high regard by certain Manalapan politicians.

I guess it’s OK to wish deadly harm on someone, as long as they have a higher readership than you do.

DaTruth is, there are politicians and their allies who don’t want people to know what is really happening in da town they govern. There are also some people who, for some strange reason, don’t always trust what they read in a local Snoozepaper. There were newspapers back in da day that some might compare by opinion to da local Snoozepaper. They printed what they were told to print by their British overlords. Those newspapers wanted to keep da status quo.

However, there were patriots who had other ideas. They wanted to tell daTruth. They wanted to make a difference. They wanted da people to know there was a way to learn what was really happening. They were da bloggers of their day. They made a difference.

How do we know this?

Simply put - We live in da United States of America, not West Great Britian.

Unfortunately in Manalapan, some political leaders have apparently forgotten about da role anonymous writers, or bloggers, had in shaping da land where freedom lives. A local Snoozepaper forgot that too.

DaTruth is, while technology has advanced over da years, politics remains da same. Da concept of anonymnous writers and anonymity is covered by da Constitution of da United States. Why is that?

Simply ask our founding fathers - some of whom like patriot Thomas Paine, President Madison, Chief Justice Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin "Mrs Silence Dogood" Frankin - were all anonymous writers of the day - the bloggers of da past who helped create da great nation we live in and da Freedoms we enjoy!

Maybe they should have been in Mrs. Honesty’s 3rd grade history class. Maybe if they didn’t miss that history lesson, there would be no need for bloggers to have to expose daTruth.

And that’s daTruth