Posted on December 11 at 6:09 p.m.

August8 and MarcoBound: the thin blue line is the long, thick blue wall.

It is antithetical to democracy. Look up the big words you don't understand.

Police tyranny is the worst aspect of fascism.

"srewball" doesn't quite make it to a dehumanizing epithet. But your attempt is noteworthy. Be strong. Be brave. Don't mouth the principles of your forefathers: lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification.

Even these handcuffed prisoners have human rights.

On Panel exonerates Marco police officer caught hitting suspects on video

Posted on December 11 at 5:08 a.m.

Community and state support for Mr. Mariani's actions in this case exposes to all the world our latent fascism.

Violence and ruthlessness exercised oppressively and despotically cannot be condoned without espousing tyranny.

It is never morally or professionally permissible to employ such harsh and cruel punishment upon handcuffed and imprisoned persons as is shown in Mr. Mariani's arrest video. Calling them names like “drunken punks,” “young hooligans,” “wimps,” “thugs,” is part of the problem of fascist dehumanization.

The bad language, the boisterous challenges, the coarse behavior of the drunken subjects provides no ameliorative excuses for a professional law-enforcement officer to assume the role of a tyrant. He unrighteously arrogated the powers of judge, jury, and jailer. What the video shows is torture.

Dehumanization hastens the nation toward its destruction. The system dictates the norms. We are the system.

On Panel exonerates Marco police officer caught hitting suspects on video

Posted on April 3 at 4:10 a.m.

I hope that focus on the board members' communicating in secret will not prevent exposure of the other still secret forces that brought CCPS Ms. Martha Hayes, Ms. Mary Gemmill, and Superintendent Thompson. We need to know what the Hinshaw & Culbertson involvement really is.

May the Force be with you, Ray Baker.

On Mediation leads to no settlement between Baker, School Board

Posted on April 3 at 3:33 a.m.

This decision by the board shows a faint movement toward democracy; however, why no public comments "allowed" during a public hearing? Why cannot the issue of drawing back the iron curtain between CCPS Capital Funds and Operating Funds be discussed? Who determines that the issue cannot be put on the November ballot?

I'm glad to see this first conciliatory effort by the board to accommodate meeting times with the work schedules of the public. But I still chafe under the orders to remain silent.

Public school board meetings in Naples will forever be haunted by the image of a sheriff's deputy stealthily and threateningly approaching from behind a speaker during her already severely limited time at the microphone.

Why refuse to allow the referendum on the November ballot to approve moving money from the bloated Capital Funds budget to the lean Operational Funds?

Maybe the slogan "No Teacher Left Behind" ought to be changed to something like the Memphis sanitation workers': I am a man. I ain't going to be quiet no more. Perhaps that insistence on voice is why Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is now so silent. Maybe his ghostly presence will rise up to bring democracy to the MLK center during our meeting.

"Oh, for thy voice high-sounding o'er the storm,/
For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark,/
The blast-defying power of thy form,/
To give us comfort through the lonely dark."--Dunbar

On Collier school district agrees to change date of salary hearing so teachers can attend