{"id":1799,"date":"2019-02-10T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2019-02-10T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T20:31:39","slug":"the-eternal-battle-between-the-corrupt-collective-and-the-smallest-minority-the-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"the eternal battle between the corrupt collective and the smallest minority&#8211;the individual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>To the Honorable\nFort Smith Mayor George McGill and members of the City Board.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; 2\/10\/19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, February 8, 2019 The Times Record led: Mayor: \u201cLet\u2019s\nresolve lawsuits\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor McGill led with a litany of topical reasons to rid the\ncity of lawsuits.&nbsp; His conclusion was: \u201cWe\nall need to put the interests of our city first. I strongly believe those of\nour residents (taxpaying citizens) who have taken us to court truly love this\ncity and want the city to do well,\u201d McGill said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor McGill we do not live in a cultural Marxist society,\nwe live in a Constitutional Republic where the individual and family comes\nfirst, not the collective, which the Democrat &amp; Republican parties now\nrepresent, as you well know after being schooled in the Democrat party for\ndecades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McGill goes on to say \u201cMaybe taking us (government) to court\nwas a way for them (taxpayers) to express their frustrations with the city\ngovernment.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mayor also said he believes \u201csitting down and listening\nto each other is the best way to vent frustrations and overcome differences,\u201d\nnot always taking legal action.&nbsp; How will\nthat prevent crime &amp; corruption in the secret back rooms of elected &amp;\nappointed officials who are sometimes caught, indicted, &amp; convicted for\ntheir illegal activities? E.g. Fort Smith &amp; the State Legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your position is most disturbing.&nbsp; If the city comes first, why the plethora of\nillegal activities conducted in the dark with no public transparency?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What forum is left to law-abiding taxpaying citizens other\nthan the courts to protect citizen\u2019s rights and interests?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe McCutchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Honorable Fort Smith Mayor George McGill and members of the City Board.&nbsp;&nbsp; 2\/10\/19 Friday, February 8, 2019 The Times Record led: Mayor: \u201cLet\u2019s resolve lawsuits\u201d Mayor McGill led with a litany of topical reasons to rid the city of lawsuits.&nbsp; His conclusion was: \u201cWe all need to put the interests of our city &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the eternal battle between the corrupt collective and the smallest minority&#8211;the individual<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-government-offenses","category-city-politics","category-corruption"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}