We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin’s words ring true in America where millions of Americans are trained by the media to hate ideas the citizens don’t comprehend.
We are witnessing in Dickinson a full-scale attack on the First Amendment, cloaked with deceitful language and subtle sophistry. My goal in speaking in Dickinson was as a friend, coming to warn the citizens of Dickinson so they can avoid the terrible fate that has fallen upon California and which she may never recover from. I have been viciously slandered by Mayor Decker, libeled by the Dickinson press, and slandered by a deceived woman in public. And yet, I’m not disappointed, for whenever evil is exposed, it naturally makes tremendous efforts to castigate any who expose it.
When I first learned of City Administrator Dustin Dassinger’s guidelines for speeches at City Council meetings, it was immediately apparent that it was his and the mayor’s attempts to create laws to criminalize speech they don’t like. Incredibly, we have out-of-control public employees like Dassinger and elected officials like Mayor Decker, who do not understand they are not elected or hired to police speech. I have encountered people like Dassinger and Mayor Decker in many other cities I’ve spoken in over the last thirteen years. The tactics they use are nearly identical to the ones I encountered in many California cities, which makes one wonder if all cities and states don’t have a hidden government behind the scenes. It’s doubtful that Mayor Steinberg of Sacramento would say, “We don’t want to give him a platform,” when I state facts, and Mayor Decker of Dickinson, ND, says the same thing, and it’s a coincidence. Few people in North Dakota don’t understand communist Democrats run California. Still, it’s disturbing when North Dakota politicians use the same communist tactics of silencing speech they don’t like, as Mayor Decker has been doing for the past three months.
Upon reading Dassinger’s recommendations for curtailing my speech, I was reminded of the story of Daniel and the lion’s den in the book of Daniel. It is fascinating that the same story plays out thousands of years later. The Benedictine monks have a saying, “To work is to pray, and to pray is to work,” which is true. When I speak at City Commission meetings, it is my prayer for a better Dickinson, North Dakota, and America. For the problems with crime, illegal immigrants, and schools being overloaded with children who don’t speak English are not my responsibility at all. Oh no, these happened under the watch of Mayor Decker and under Dassinger’s time as chief of police. So it’s interesting that they are trying to silence the exposure of problems they are responsible for while publicly lying and saying that what I’m talking about doesn’t concern the city of Dickinson. In the book of Daniel, a group of men disliked Daniel, who was a righteous man. They were likely jealous of him. So, they conspired in secret, which is what the Mayor and Dassinger are doing, as no public input into their decision to limit speech has been had. They decided to try to pass a law to ban prayer, which they knew Daniel did. So, they got the King, who was impressed with Daniel, to pass a law banning prayer. They then went to the King and told him they caught Daniel praying. Daniel was thrown into the lion’s den and was miraculously spared, much to the King’s delight. And those who plotted against him were thrown into the lion’s den and were destroyed. So just as Daniel was attacked for praying and exposed to danger by men who had evil motives, so too, when I come to work/pray for a better Dickinson, I’m attacked, and laws are passed to criminalize me speaking.
Mr. Dassinger’s memo, which will be examined at length, along with the history of attacks on my right to speak, is fascinating, as he pretends to be concerned with respectful speech. And yet, we learn from the Dickinson Press that Mr. Dassinger was involved in cruel and malicious gaslighting of a city employee who disagreed with him, even going so far as to have him locked out of the city and arrested in freezing cold weather on trumped up charges. I don’t know why a man like Dassinger still has a job after such contemptible and wicked behavior.
It is inexplicable that Dassinger ordered Mayor Decker, the two appear to be in cahoots, to cut the livestream at the last city commission meeting, which the Dickinson Press wholly ignored in its reporting on the story the next day. It’s absurd we hear the Dickinson Press and mayor talk about how I’m not from Dickinson when the owner of the Dickinson Press isn’t from Dickinson, the owners of the television stations in the sets in nearly every home in Dickinson aren’t in Dickinson, the owners of Facebook and Twitter, which thousands of people in Dickinson are on, don’t live in Dickinson, the owners of radio stations, listened to by thousands of people in Dickinson, don’t live in Dickinson. Indeed, based on the logic that you have to live in Dickinson to comment in public in Dickinson, none of the big corporations, especially the oil companies, should have anything to say in Dickinson as their owners don’t live in Dickinson. Doesn’t this sound silly? But, when a citizen who pays taxes and shops in Dickinson comes to comment, the Mayor and the Dickinson Press think it’s a big deal that I don’t live in Dickinson. It’s just like the Pharisees, straining at gnats and swallowing camels.
But let us examine Mr. Dassinger’s dastardly actions in dealing with then-City Planner Matthew Galibert just one year ago. Here is the article. https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/city-commission-disciplines-employees-will-revamp-harassment-policy
Mr. Galibert was an independent thinker and didn’t like being told how to think and act, which is good. From what the Dickinson Press reported, I was appalled by Mr. Dassinger’s conduct and the others involved. A man leaves his belongings at work, and which of us hadn’t forgotten stuff at work or home before, and the police are called because of a threat to other employees? What kind of rational person thinks this? It’s pretty frightening to think people who act and think this way work at City Hall. Mr. Dassinger didn’t appear apologetic about his role either. He seems to be a petty bureaucrat functionary who enjoys throwing his weight around. He obviously hasn’t learned his lesson because, just last meeting, not even a year after he engaged in atrocious conduct towards a city employee, arresting him in freezing conditions on the flimsiest of pretexts, he ordered the mayor to cut the live stream. Mr. Dassinger, let’s be very clear: you have a problem reading your job description; telling citizens what they can and can’t say at city council meetings is not your job. If you have a problem with what I say, get up and use 15 minutes to state what you disagree with, but don’t pussyfoot around and try to change the rules to criminalize speech and ideas you obviously don’t like and understand. And Mayor, Shame on you for allowing lawless behavior like this from city employees. His reckless and tyrannical behavior is a disgrace to every employee of Dickinson and every citizen. If he’s doing this in public, what is he doing in private as police chief and city administrator? The term “thick as thieves” comes to mind because city employees are often well paid, with money from taxpayers, and yet, as we can see, some of you don’t work for the taxpayers; you work for special interests and yourselves.
Let’s quickly follow the chronology of these increasingly frenzied attacks on speech that expose the corruption in Dickinson because make no mistake about it, that’s what this is. It began in the first two meetings I spoke at, with the mayor repeatedly interrupting and stating I was
speaking about issues related to Dickinson’s business. This is a clever end around by opponents of free speech; they try to silence ideas they don’t like by saying they are irrelevant to their city. I had plenty to say relevant to Dickinson, and I’m just getting warmed up. One astounding observation is that when you study the tactics of communist activists, their tactics include, as we learn from Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” smearing the opposition, then attacking and silencing them, which we have watched the mayor and the Dickinson Press do.
Two meetings ago, the Mayor began with these remarks, which were happily reported by the Pravda Dickinson Press the next day.
“I think you have abused our good graces with diatribes against individuals and races of people I believe you have that freedom but we also have the freedom to be free of you.
Right?
Me: You do?
We do, and that’s a right that’s afforded to us.
Any of the city staff that wants to leave, I’m going to afford them that ability. You are not going to hold people hostage with your hate speech. I’m sorry, that’s what it is. You can believe whatever you want, but this is a free country, so if anyone wants to leave, they may leave; they don’t have to listen to you. I will sit here and listen to your nonsense.”
First, free speech is not a right given by the good graces of anyone. It’s a right given to every citizen of America by God. You and I are insignificant men, and you and I will die one day, as every man will. God is eternal, so I don’t listen to petty men; I listen to God, and I recommend you start doing this as well, Mayor.
Then the Mayor publicly slanders me, saying I have diatribes against races and individuals; all I did was state facts that are true and irrefutable. Unable to disprove my remarks, the mayor resorts to dismissing them as “hateful” and “nonsense.”
The Mayor then states a desire to get rid of me. This is pretty incredible stuff. A public official who runs the police department saying he wants to get rid of someone is a few steps removed from the NKVD, knocking on people’s doors in the middle of the night in Russia, and they are either shot or sent to concentration camps.
The Mayor then says I’m holding people hostage with hate speech. All I’m doing is exposing corruption. The mayor is angry at me for exposing corruption. Still, he’s not bothered by illegals running wild in Dickinson and the exploding crime and education rates and costs associated with it. He’s not bothered by the two North Dakota senators receiving $300,000 from AIPAC, representing a foreign nation, which is treason; he isn’t bothered by illegal income taxes affecting every one of Dickinson’s citizens, which is theft. So real crime doesn’t bother him, but exposure of that crime bothers him tremendously.
Finally, if you think it’s a chore to listen to the opinions of citizens who have researched these matters for years, and if you have city employees who are disturbed at having to listen to the views of the citizens who pay their paychecks, maybe you should find a new line of work, and invite the employees who feel this way to join you. You and the employees are servants of the people; you are not masters and overlords of the people, a concept you clearly have not learned in over 5 decades on this earth.
Immediately following this meeting, the Dickinson Press released a scathing article critical of me without ever getting my side of the story. It’s irresponsible journalism to give your negative and uninformed opinion of someone without researching both sides. They then published an article by Rob Port, who doesn’t live in Dickinson but noses into the business of cities across ND with his corrupt and ignorant opinions, again criticizing me with no serious attention being given to evaluate what I said.
Prior to this, at the second meeting I attended, the city council was asked to change rules about speakers. Several comments were made about restricting speakers, and even mention was made regarding eliminating public comment altogether. Without naming me, this was aimed at me to intimidate me into being quiet.
Mayor Decker mentions that city employees are disturbed by what I’m saying. Now, if any employee of the city of Dickinson has a problem with what I’m saying, or if you do, Mayor, you can have 15 minutes to state what you disagree with and to refute what I’ve said. But, I haven’t heard you disprove anything I’ve said, and I haven’t listened to a single employee of Dickinson get up to speak to disagree with me. There is a fundamental misunderstanding about the roles of elected officials and city employees. Elected officials and public emplyees are not elected to office or hired to police speech. What you did not mention, Mayor, is that the employees of this city, and in every town in America, and the police, and the military, and state and government employees are held hostage by the Jewish-controlled media who will ensure they are fired if they tell the truth as I’m doing. No city in America will hire people to tell the truths that I’m telling. Since way too many American men are cowards who fear losing money and their jobs more than the dishonor they bring upon themselves by shirking their duty, we don’t have many other men getting up in public to tell the truth. And those of us who do face frenetic and desperate attacks to try to silence us.
Also, it’s very obvious that you and city employees are gossiping and backbiting about me in private. In public meetings, you have all this to say about how city employees don’t like what I’m saying. Well, they don’t have a choice. Anyone who agrees with me will be fired. It’s hard to respect the opinions of people who say what you want them to because they are paid to do that. Why are you and public employees gossiping in private? If you or they have issues with what I’m saying, then say it in public, like a man. You are handling this like a woman, trying to privately gossip and change the rules to get rid of ideas you don’t like. If men like the Mayor had founded America, the country would have collapsed in its first decade. This nation was founded by men who had difficult conversations and who hashed out their differences. They did not try to change the laws to silence their critics as you do now.
Let us conclude by examining Dassinger’s memo, which likely was written or vetted by the city attorney, who doesn’t demonstrate a remote comprehension of the First Amendment. The memo is couched with terms like respectful, integrity, and professionalism, which are meaningless when you examine the document, as it’s an attack on free speech, which is as disrespectful, corrupt, and unprofessional as you can get. When a man isn’t allowed to speak to defend himself and his ideas at public meetings, it isn’t long after that that he can be jailed or put to death, and he isn’t allowed to defend himself.
There are no good reasons for this memo in the first place. It’s a blatant attempt to silence their exposure of corruption at city hall. How are citizens supposed to call out corruption among city officials if we have to ask your permission to speak? That’s like asking the fox to guard the henhouse. You are under the citizens of America. You are not over us. We are your bosses. You are not our bosses.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with public comment on matters not on the agenda. Listening for fifteen minutes to ideas some elected officials either don’t understand or want to suppress is too much, and so that’s what this memo is about. At the last meeting, we saw Mr. Dassinger cause disorder and unprofessionalism by cutting the live stream. Yet, here he is trying to pretend as if he cares about orderliness and professionalism when all he is, as he has repeatedly demonstrated, is a two-bit tyrant who tries to slander, humiliate, and eradicate all who disagree with him. If Mr. Dassinger does this publicly, what does he do behind closed doors with city employees? It must be pretty brutal; I wouldn’t want to work for any organization with a tyrant like him running it. Anyone who believes Mr. Dassinger cares about orderliness, respectfulness, and professionalism is a fool. So are those who can’t see he’s attacking the First Amendment by cloaking his evil intentions with harmless-sounding language to make it sound like he cares about the public good. If he cared about the public good so much, he wouldn’t allow companies bringing in illegal immigrants to operate with impunity in Dickinson. But he does; Tzadik Properties is still doing business in the city, to my knowledge. This doesn’t disturb dastardly Dassinger but me coming to city hall to expose it disturbs him to no end.
Another memo phrase, “Comments shall pertain to matters that are within the scope of municipalty business,” bears scrutiny.
This is a clever attempt used by city leaders in many cities to silence criticism of problems in their city that are far larger than the city itself. This is why the First Amendment has no restrictions. It was designed so that citizens can call out corruption related to any city, no matter how far-reaching it may be. Just because the city officials are powerless to stop the corruption does not mean citizens shouldn’t be able to expose it. I have a suggestion: how about elected officials and city employees focus on doing their jobs and stop trying to regulate speech they don’t like?
Moving on to the next clause of this absurd memo, we read, “May not interfere with the orderly conduct of the regular meeting.”
Any talented and courageous First Amendment lawyer can sue and win on this clause. It is very problematic. First, the effect this has is if a speaker says something unpopular and unruly, and rowdy members of the crowd interrupt, then the speaker can be called disorderly and silenced. Under these guidelines, Socrates, Jesus, Patrick Henry, and America’s Founders can all be silenced. This is an attack on the spirit of the First Amendment, which was designed to allow unpopular speech.
Next, we move on to Mr. Dassinger saying, “Presentaters and videos will not be allowed during the comment period.” Now, the city uses videos and presentations constantly, and the citizens should also have the right to do presentations and videos. Within the last two months, Dave Beaudoin gave a presentation on climate change, which I disagree with, but I think he has the right to state his opinions. When I called and asked to do a presentation, Ms. Binstock was decidedly hostile and not helpful at all. She said I could submit a PowerPoint to the city, and they would decide if I could present it. The purpose of free speech is not to let city employees or elected officials regulate that speech, as has been repeatedly noted above. So, this clause is absurd and wastes the city’s time and money. Let the citizens say and present what they want. As long as they aren’t using profanity, racial slurs, or pornography, none of which are protected by the original spirit of the First Amendment, it’s permissible.
Then we move on to the final part of the memo, “The comments made are not to be personal toward the commission nor any city employee
The comments shall not be defamatory, abusive, harassing, or unlawful.”
This is another violation of the First Amendment. Of course, citizens shouldn’t slander or libel elected officials or employees, but I never have. When I called Mayor Decker a coward, I meant it, and I have lots of evidence to back it up. Perhaps I went too far when I said he should start shopping in the dress aisle, and I’ll retract that. However, this clause means no personal criticism of the commission is allowed, which is absurd. This is a glaring violation of the First Amendment, which gives citizens the right to grieve or complain about anything or anyone they wish.
Also, “abusive, harassing, or unlawful comments” is a totally subjective clause. Anyone in power can call anything they don’t like listening to “abusive” and silence the speaker. Precisely, what is an unlawful comment? We know threats of violence are not allowed, but no one has done this in Dickinson. I think Mr. Dassinger is a tyrant and a coward. Under this clause, I could be silenced in a public meeting for not saying nice things about Mr. Dassinger.
I want to thank Commissioners Baer, Odermann, and Ridl for patiently listening to me speak over the last three months. I have no doubt you had strong disagreements with some of what I said, but it takes self-control and humility to listen to ideas we strongly dislike and not interrupt or express one’s displeasure. You three are to be commended. Also, I requested the campaign donations for the entire commission and was pleasantly surprised that if the reporting was correct, none of you took campaign donations. That is truly impressive. Now, there is another side to that. Because the media, television, radio, social media, newspapers, and more influence people’s minds on how to think and vote. If candidates come into office who oppose the agenda of the media owners, we will all know about it. I don’t expect this from any of you at the moment, but as more details about who is really running America, North Dakota, and Dickinson emerge, you will be expected to act prudently on that information, and you are going to have to bravely stand against a firestorm of criticism and hatred from the media and those brainwashed by it. I pray you have the courage to do your duty as men.
In conclusion, if this memo is voted into law, it will result in lawsuits, and I will go to jail for violating it. Nonviolent resistance is called for when governments pass tyrannical laws. As Augustine said, “An unjust law is no law at all.”
Augustine said, “ ‘The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
So, let’s let the truth emerge at this council and shine a light of freedom for all the other cities in America.
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics…derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”
Benjamin Franklin
