Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman, Salisbury, Maryland

March 16, 2009

Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman
City Hall
125 North Division Street
Salisbury, Maryland 21801-4940

Madame Mayor,

The indulgence I granted to all of Maryland for not electing Kathleen Kennedy Townsend – The word twit does not do her justice. She was/is/shall be the poster girl for fathead mooncalves - governor is hereby revoked. I can do that because I have “rights from beyond the stars”. One of those is “Free men speak with free tongues”. You may want to familiarize yourself with it. It is painfully obvious that is an alien notion to you.

The Internet and what would John Adams have done about it is an intriguing question. Back when it took up to 3 days for a message to get from Boston to Washington he signed the Alien and Sedition Act into law. If he had to face the Internet he would have made Abu Ghraib into a rest home.

You say that “malicious blogs endanger Salisbury”. I rubbed my eyes when I read that because I thought it surely must be datelined the other Salisbury, the one in England. That’s the one with the big stones where the Druids gather every June 21st to welcome summer. They wear long robes and kill cats and chant “OOOM” when ever there is an eclipse. So far it’s worked. The sun has always, ALWAYS, come back. That Salisbury.

Have you ever heard of the Committees of Correspondence? Silly me! Of course you haven’t. They were groups of men who gathered in taverns up and down the colonies before the American Revolution. Whenever the King and his lackeys did something particularly egregious they would, like Revolutionary bloggers before Microsoft and Mackintosh, communicate.

You say that these people are “suspicious”. Further, they are “mean spirited” and that they “focus on the negative”. Why don’t you get some sycophants – that means “asskissers”, even in Salisbury – and start a blog to answer your critics? Start with stuff like “We Love our Mayor even though she is a Horse’s Ass”. Perhaps “Barrie: Our Boob with Boobs”.

The essence of a free society is that people can be “suspicious” about its government. They can be both “mean spirited” and “negative” about it. The government does not have the “right” - governments have no “rights”, they have duties and obligations - to hinder, harass, or suppress those who do so.




Would Cuba or Nazi Germany have been better served had there been an active blogosphere for its time?

Did you know that possession of a photocopy machine in the USSR was a capital offense?

You are in your last month as Mayor.

Try not to stain the rugs on your way out.


PS – In the words of your Delmarva neighbor Vice President “Curley” Biden – “Curley” because he was the smartest Stooge – “Give me a fucking break”.