To The Daily Sun,
After years of oblivion, Mike Sylvia’s modest and frugal lifestyle has become a cause celebre, complete with a superior court judge with his thumb on the scales of justice.
Why the change?
Representative Sylvia had the temerity to try to bring the Belknap County budget under control, a motive which brought objections from county commissioners. The commissioners communicated their displeasure to the town of Belmont and to others as well. That the commissioners held sway shows up in my county tax assessment.
Now comes Ms. Larson, spouse of one of the commissioners, with her hypocritical assessment of the fifth amendment. Why hypocritical? As a typical ACLU lawyer, she employed it with regularity. The other “h” word, harridan, always comes to the fore when anything pertaining to Larson rears its benighted head.
Dick Burchell
Gilmanton Iron Works
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I needed to grab the old dictionary and dust it off for this gem. To save others the time of searching, I’ll assist in deciphering some of Burchell’s terminology;
“Held sway”- wield power
5th Amendment~ The Fifth Amendment says that we cannot have our life, liberty, or property taken except by due process of law. This means that the government cannot simply punish us because it wants to. Right to remain silent and not self incriminate (although silence can speak volumes).
HARRIDAN. A hagged old woman; a miserable, scraggy, worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree: derived from the French word HARIDELLE, a worn-out jade of a horse or mare.
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