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“It is when authority in Poestenkill is abused that authority in Poestenkill becomes contemptable!”
“The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!”
“Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything!”
“The press is the scourge of tyrants and the grand palladium of liberty.”
July 4th 2026 Edition
“ON THE USE OF REFERENDUMS AS A TOOL OF OPPRESSION, REPRESSION AND TYRANNY IN POESTENKILL, NEW YORK IN THIS THE YEAR OF OUR 250th ANNIVERSARY FROM THE TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION OF AN INSANE ENGLISH KING – OR A TOUCH TOO MUCH FASCISM TODAY IN POESTENKILL UNDER MICHELLE GARAFOLO FOR THIS LOYAL AMERICAN TO TAKE!”
It is interesting as someone who has lived the majority of his life here in Poestenkill from right after the end of World War II, when we were celebrating the suppression of the tyranny and oppression of fascism in Europe, to see fascism coming creeping into Poestenkill today under this Garafolo regime which has seized control of our government in Poestenkill and has attempted to strike a death blow to liberty of thought and due process of law in Poestenkill today with Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026, an alleged Town Law § 209-h resolution, which Michelle and her gang all rubber-stamp approved on the evening of 23 April 2026, in the course of doing so, unlawfully creating what appears to this licensed professional engineer to be a greatly expanded Poestenkill Water District No. 2 in clear violation of what is known as lawful procedure here in America where I still live and reside, because yes, people, regardless of what Michelle Garafolo, Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi, David Hass, Rodney Rescott and their 88 supporters including especially Greg Pattenaude of Algonquin Estates all think, Poestenkill is not a sovereign state where they can rule as they please while running roughshod over the due process rights of American citizens in Poestenkill as they did on 23 April 2026 with the unlawful making and filing of Poestenkill Resolution #24-2026.
As to due process of law, which I began learning about as a five-year old in Poestenkill elementary school back in the days when we did not have nor want fascism here in America or Poestenkill, it is widely considered a fundamental bedrock of American democracy.
Due process of law is the constitutional guarantee that the government must respect all legal rights owed to a person, protecting individuals from arbitrary government overreach and ensuring fair treatment before depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property.
As we celebrate today the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence from the tyranny and oppression of mad King George III, we see the American concept of due process is firmly rooted in the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence.
Enshrined in § 6 of Article I of the New York Constitution as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, due process serves two primary functions here in America and yes, people, even Poestenkill.
The first function, which Michelle and her gang walked all over on 23 April 2026, is known as procedural Due Process.
Procedural due process mandates that the Garafolo government use fair procedures, such as the right to adequate notice and a fair, neutral hearing, before taking adverse action against an individual.
The second function, substantive Due Process is intended to protect fundamental, unenumerated rights from government interference, ensuring that the laws themselves are fair and just, for without due process, the enforcement of other democratic rights in Poestenkill becomes impossible, as it is due process of law which serves to ensure a “government of laws, and not of men,” or in this case, Michelle Garafolo.
Here in New York, the right of the American people here in Poestenkill to defend themselves against the tyranny and oppression of the Garafolo regime is enshrined in CPLR Article 78, titled “Proceeding Against Body or Officer,” where one finds the words “whether a determination was made in violation of lawful procedure” in § 7803(3).
Here in New York and this is something I was taught in school here in Poestenkill when I was five years old, the words “in violation of lawful procedure” in CPLR § 7803(3) are inextricably linked to the concept of constitutional due process in § 6 of Article I of the New York State Constitution.
Here in New York, the “violation of lawful procedure” prong of CPLR § 7803(3) serves as the statutory vehicle for enforcing constitutional procedural due process guarantees, and in the case of Poestenkill Resolution #24, 2026, which was decidedly ultra vires, the Garafolo gang controlling the Poestenkill Town Board is not lawfully entitled to a timeliness defense pursuant to § 209-g of Article 12-a of the New York Town Law.
So a challenge of the making and filing of Poestenkill Resolution #24, 2026 on constitutional due process grounds is still very much alive, despite what Michelle, Phil and the rest of the gang, including the Algonquin Estates crowd think.
§ 6 of Article I of the New York State Constitution, which all the members of the Garafolo gang took a false oath to support, ensures that no person here in Poestenkill is deprived of life, liberty, or property without “due process of law.”
And that takes us back to 15 January 2026 when in her “Dear Neighbors” letter, Michelle stated as follows:
On June 27,2024, residents within the proposed Water District #2 overwhelmingly approved the creation of the district.
And as with just about everything else that comes pouring and tumbling out of the mouth of Michelle Garafolo, who is “truth-challenged,” that statement is simply false, because on 27 June 2024, what those 88 residents within Algonquin Estates overwhelmingly approved was the following language in the proposition Eric Wohlleber and Frank Burzesi gave them on 26 June 2024 to vote on, to wit:
Proposition
Shall the Qualified Electors of the Town of Poestenkill, in the County of Rensselaer, New York, approve Resolution #11-2024 adopted by the Town Board on the 25th day of April 2024 for the Establishment of Poestenkill Water District #2 and providing that such Resolution and Order be subject to Mandatory Referendum in Conformity with Town Law Article 12-A.
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So, what each and every one of those 88 voters Frank Bursezi turned out to vote on 27 June 2024 voted overwhelmingly to approve was each and every word of Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 in the six Whereas clauses on p.1 of Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024, each and every word of the nine Whereas clauses on p. 2, and each and every word of the four Whereas clauses on p.3, and each and every word thereafter on pages 3 and 4 of Poestenkill Resolution and Order No. 11, 2024 wherein is stated in the fifth Whereas clause at p. 2, as follows:
WHEREAS, the maximum amount to be expended for the construction of the water system in proposed Town of Poestenkill Water District No. 2 remains estimated to be $5,550,000.00.
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In other words, what those 88 people in Algonquin Estates really voted to approve was a BLANK CHECK to the Poestenkill Town Board to raise that estimate whenever they so chose, for no reason, because it was not a firm ceiling as OSC 2026-2 and Article 12-a of the New York Town Law require.
And by doing so, willingly and willfully, what those 88 people in Algonquin Estates really voted to approve on 27 June 2024 was the elected members of the Town Board of Poestenkill, the hapless Democrat Tom Russell, and Republicans Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi and June Butler denying and depriving 18 American citizens who are property owners and taxpayers in the Town of Poestenkill outside the territorial limits of Algonquin Estates due process rights pursuant to § 6 of Article I of the New York State Constitution and the 14th Amendment to the United States.
That, people, is what fascism here in Poestenkill today is all about where fascism is defined as a system of government in which each class have their distinct place, function, and representation in the government, while the individual is subordinated to the “state” of Poestenkill and control over the people is maintained by rigid censorship, and governmental regimentation of finance.
Wouldn’t Hitler be proud of them today as we loyal Americans in Poestenkill outside Algonquin Estates celebrate the Fourth of July?
I for one think so.
Stay tuned, this is a developing story, news as it happens, live and late breaking, so don’t touch that dial!
About the Author
“ON FAIR PLAY AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD FOR ERIC WOHLLEBER, FRANK BURZESI, MICHELLE GARAFOLO, GREG PATTENAUDE AND THE REST OF THEIR POESTENKILL GANG WHO DENY THE SAME TO US LESS PRIVILEGED HERE IN POESTENKILL!”
As an American citizen who left his home in the town of Poestenkill to fight and bleed for what is known as our American Way of Life, including such fundamental and intrinsic human rights as freedom of thought, freedom of expression, liberty of conscience, and freedom of speech, even though they are denied me here in Poestenkill by the dictatorial Poestenkill town board, which town board recently successfully asserted its right to strip Patrick Wing of Poestenkill of his right to petition for redress in Poestenkill, yet another basic human right that is not universal here in Poestenkill, I would like to extend an invitation to Poestenkill residents Eric Wohlleber, Frank Burzesi, Michelle Garafolo, Greg Pattenaude and anybody else here in Poestenkill interested in the serious charges I have raised in the Cape Charles Mirror, to come down to Virginia, where unlike Poestenkill under Michelle Garafolo, freedom still does ring, to answer those charges in a public forum and to refute them if they can in a forum where censorship does not prevail as it does here in Poestenkill.
And it is very easy, all any of them need to is to simply click on this link and access to the wider world outside the confines of Poestenkill is immediately available and accessible, which should please a storyteller like Eric Wohlleber who has been dying to make it into the “big time” with his fabulous stories for a long time now:
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/paul-p … e/#respond
It costs nothing to join, you don’t have to be in the “right” political party to voice your opinion, nor do you have to fear retaliation and repression as is the case here in Poestenkill.
So come to Virginia, speak to the world, not just 88 people in Algonquin Estates, and make your case before the people of America and those of the candid world who watch and wait to see what direction the American people are going to go, whether towards the light of freedom or the darkness of tyranny.
This is the moment you all have been waiting for!
Come to Virginia and prove Paul Plante wrong in the eyes of the world!
If you can!
And they didn’t because they couldn’t!
I hope and pray you and yours are well!
The CCM had this from me this morning and I have come to realize that to younger generations, the phrase “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” which is visceral to me, not something I think, but something I believe, having grown up in a small town loaded with WWII and Korean vets, one of whom, my assistant Boy Scout leader, was an ace in Europe flying a Mustang, is little more than a trite saying with no intrinsic value to them in their lives because vigilance takes far too much time and way too much work.
For them, freedom was no cheap slogan to be mouthed on the 4th of July, it was something they had fought and bled for and that was DUTY – the strong do not prey on the weak, period!
It is interesting that this thread on this “rag” from “Commie Central” has garnered 5135 views to date on another site where it has been posted under the head “FREEDOM IS NOT FREE,” which is an American statement, not a Commie statement, since the Commies aren’t into FREEDOM!.
It is of passing interest to me as an elderly disabled Viet Nam veteran who can honestly say what a long strange trip this has been since I stepped off a so-called “Freedom Bird” on some Air Force base near San Francisco coming back from Viet Nam, that in these times of grave concern here in the very beating heart of the Commonwealth of Virginia that is downtown Cape Charles, that grave concern being the question of where golf carts actually belong in Cape Charles, or whether they don’t, or should they be confined to state-registered and approved golf courses, instead, for the greater good of society-at-large , along with e-bikes that go fifty miles an hour on hiking trails so as to allow the fools who ride them the opportunity to score more points running down more hikers than those on the older, slower e-bike models, which hikers really should know better than to hike on trails for e-bikes; how the saying of Solon, that “the most perfect government is that where an injury to any one is the concern of all” has gone so far out of style here in modern-day America where literacy has become a useless societal appendage.
When the going gets Weird; the Weird turn Pro…
Hunter Thompson
And has it ever!
And I think the Doo-Dah Man has gone up the country where the water tastes like wine!
Live by the GolfCart,
Die by the GolfCart…
Recent studies indicate that GolfCarts may be the cause of the Blue Crab population decline.
It is said among the intelligentsia in America who have dedicated themselves to a long-term study of Cape Charles, Virginia as the Avant Garde microcosm of political life here in America as well as the harbinger of things yet to come in the world that exists outside the territorial boundaries of down town Cape Charlles where golf-cart fever rages hot and heavy, with antagonists and protagonists galore on both sides, plus those who just love a good food fight watching in, in anticipation of the next blow to be struck, pro or con, and especially now that this linkage between excessive golf cart usage in Cape Charles being a major contributor to the Blue Crab population decline, that in a future yet to come, the golf cart, especially those with fringe surrey tops and fox tails on whip antennas with dice hanging from the rear-view mirror and the requisite curb feelers to be both in and cool at the same time, will be sen as the cause of the decline and fall of society all across America.
Who’d a thought it all would start right here before our eyes in the venerable and trustworthy Cape Charles Mirror which has been doing yeoman service in keeping this golf cart issue alive so the people of the world can really have a clue as to just how serious this golf cart controversy in Cape Charles really is!
If somebody doesn’t endeavor to persevere to do something about it, and quick, it will be the end of the world as we know it!
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Freedom? https://deflock.org/ What a mess.
I am shocked at the sheer number of these invasive cameras on The Shore, but the placement is astounding. They would have lasted just long enough for them to be removed/destroyed in the 80’s by citizens or their teen aged kids that absolutely would not stand for it. On the new politically correct Shore, they will remain and the new citizens will report them being destroyed.
Freedom is being doled out by the NEW PEOPLE in Cape Charles mighty stingily it seems, with their obvious, overwhelming and mind-crippling fear of those who were here before them so that they must their movements by a plethora of highly invasive cameras lest the people who were here before them do o9r say something the NEW PEOPLE do not want done or said.
Winston Smith would say this is straight out of Orwell’s 1984 and who could argue against him?
The NEW PEOPLE with their invasive cameras?
If you are saying that freedom in America is becoming as scarce as hen’s teeth, you’ll get no argument from me on that score!
No Worries Tom, prior to commiting your next felony, if you have time in advance, just tape over your liscense tag and wear a hoodie…
You are, obviously, part of the overall problem.
Is that general condemnation of your fellow American citizens or just a condemnation of one of them?
Connie, can you please end the suspense and let us all know what the overall problem is that somebody, or maybe a host of somebodies, are a part of?
This sounds very serious, and it is exactly the kind of issue that should get aired in here so as to give it a full and fair hearing.
No. Maybe you could reread, carefully, thru the comments and see if you can’t figure it out for yourself. Maybe AI could assist you. LOL!
I tried AI, Connie, several different versions, actually, and each of them said they never heard of you and thus, did not and could not have a clue as to who or what you are referring to as part of the “overall problem.”
What exactly is the “overall problem” that you are referring to?
Tom Haskins being allowed in Cape Charles?
Based o their review of all the comments in here, that is the collective surmisal of all the AI’s out there, who incidentally, find you an interesting case study.
Use your real name when you address me, understand?
No Tom, Do YOU understand?
My goodness, Twinkle, Twinkle!
Such animus!
Such hostility!
You harbor that kind of hostility long enough it will really screw up your inner workings as a human being!
And think of the bad name you are giving Cape Charles here, which touts itself as a city of brotherly love!
Paul, Paul, Paul. Let us not get ahead of ourselves here! And please address me with the more formal Ms. Little Star
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, Ms. Little Star!
How we out here in the world wonder who you really are, whether Connie West or somebody else!
Up above Cape Charles so high,
Like a video camera in the sky.
With your all-seeing eye that keeps tight tabs on Tom Haskins and who knows who else!
So Twinkle, twinkle, Ms. little star!
And we will continue to wonder just who in Cape Charles you really are!
As to the overall problem specific to downtown Cape Charles in the now-gentrified section, as opposed to the overall problem in the Commonwealth, or the overall problem here in the USA or out there in the known world where the venerable Caper Charles Mirror, an international publication as it is, is enjoyed by the masses the world over who see downtown Cape Charles as the harbinger of things to come in the outer world, the Cape Charles Overall Problem is once you have gentrified yourself, what do you do with all the people who were there before the gentrification took place?
Let’s face it, people, once the area has been gentrified, those people who were here before it became gentrified no longer fit the specific demographic standards necessary to denote an area as truly gentrified, as opposed to faux gentrified.
Hence Connie West seeing Tom Haskins as emblematic of the overall problem of what to do with people like Tom Haskins who don’t fit the new cultural mode in Cape Charles, or to put it into the vernacular, his kind are not wanted in downtown Cape Charles, period, end of sentence, end of story!
And thus, progress progresses along not only for the greater good of society at large, but for Tom Haskiins and Twinkle Twinkle as well, and all will then be right with the world according to Connie West reporting in from on the scene itself in downtown Cape Charles, and thank you Connie West for your candid on-the-scene hard-hitting report on the overall problem facing people like yourself in now beleaguered Cape Charles, Virginia!