You couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day. Not a cloud was in the sky . Even the Chemtrailers took the day off.; however, there was still a dark pall that hung over the city following the recent decision of the City Council to uphold portions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Those portions specifically call for the indefinite detention of American citizens suspected of terrorist activities or associations with terrorists. Members of Restore Constitutional Governance Resolution (RCGR) gathered at the front of City Hall on Saturday July 12th to inform the citizens of Worcester the gravity of this decision.
Many Worcester residents stopped to ask questions. Rich Aucoin was able to speak to me on camera about the next RCGR event being held July 25th at 335 Chandler St, the Nu-Cafe’ at 7pm and his hopes for some candidates to show up in support of their efforts. Both he and Susan Serpa made the rounds at the July 4th fireworks last week passing out flyers and engaging two of the prospective candidates for Mass AG on their thoughts concerning NDAA.
I also had the chance to speak with Ronal Madnick who attended both the City Council meetings and wrote the resolution presented to the Council. Ron is host of the Worc. WCCA ch.13 cable access television show Civil Liberties, Know Your Rights. He was a little perplexed at the idea that the rules committee was engaging in the same application of points of order as the City Council itself. Those points of order being that the public is only allowed two minutes to speak and public comments can be cut off at any time (which they were). Why was Ron perplexed over this? He helped draft some of those points of order back when HE served on the City Council. Mr. Madnick was also concerned that two of the Council members (Rivera and Rushton) mysteriously went MIA during the roll call vote.
But it was Susan Serpa who had the best news concerning NDAA in the city. In a letter drafted by her neighbor to the Worcester Police Department was outlined the concern over indefinite detentions of Americans. After a couple of months the police responded to the letter reassuring that they would uphold Due Process and NOT detain citizens without warrants or Probable Cause. However, Susan is concerned that the image presented by their group may ruffle the feathers of some Progressivists. She is not far off the mark considering the ambivalence displayed towards these citizens from the City Council and one certain (to be unnamed) publisher of a well known periodical distributed freely here in the city.
The City Council has allowed a 90 day appeals process concerning the result of the NDAA vote. Rich Aucoin and Susan Serpa have filed that appeal. To date Oxford, Rutland, Webster and Paxton voted down allowing indefinite detentions to come their communities. RCGR is growing and beginning to show up at more city and town meetings throughout the state.
