So the City Council has decided that the Rule of Law doesn’t apply to the Church Street Marketplace District. In total secrecy the public body decided that the police can banish whomever they want from this district with no due process and no chance of appeal. The cop’s word is the only law.
Despite Miro’s promise of transparency, the City Council is making the brazenly fraudulent claim that no one can know how they came to this resolution, despite Vermont’s Open Meeting law, by claiming attorney-client privilege! Their preposterous claim is that because they received council from the city’s lawyer, they are not allowed to tell anybody what happened.
Only now are the Progressives realizing the grave mistake they made in agreeing to this draconian power authorized to the police. The Democrats on the council however are fighting tooth and nail to keep the council’s doing secret. Why? Because they are actually Republicans pretending to be Democrats. That’s the only explanation I can come up with.
1) The ordinance is in itself illegal.
2) The demand of secrecy on the council is also illegal, based on a false premise of ‘privilege’.
Burlington has come a long, long way from the days of the People’s Republic of Burlington…
Still mystified at how they were able to pull this off with no constitutional legal challenge & contain their evil deeds under a cover of darkness.
I’m pretty unimpressed with the antics of this bunch going back at least a couple of years. They make rightwingers look sane by comparison & are clearly oblivious to the fact that their own excrement smells as rank as anyones.
Appears to be another example of “absolute power corrupts”.