Jim Mageau’s House of Horrible Paranoid Fantasies

(house photo from Charlestown Tax
Assessor database)

Very scary!

By Will Collette

If any kids go trick or treating at Jim Mageau’s house on South County Trail, they’re in for a great treat – Jim will be handing out copies of Mageau v. Anderson while supplies last.

That’s Mageau’s most recent favorite all-purpose legal action, a golden oldie from 1987 that, in Mageau’s way of looking at the world, supports every position he takes on whatever issue he chooses.

Yes, Charlestown’s most famous curmudgeon loves Halloween when everybody sees goblins behind every rock and bush.

Of course, Jim sees them every day. And he seeks to exorcise them with rambling rants to the Westerly Sun written in his mystical Jimmie-speak dialect ("as the public record clearly shows," "intellectual dishonesty," "incontrovertible evidence," "they should all resign," "egregious violation," "violated my civil rights").

They’re called Charlestown Democrats. Or maybe the “corrupt and evil” town administrator William DiLibero. Or the Charlestown Citizens Alliance. Or the RI Statewide Coalition. Or all of the town council members. Except Lisa DiBello.

Or Deb Carney. Or Frank Glista. Or Paula Andersen. Or Donna Walsh. Or Cathy Collette. Or the state Democratic Party. The Republicans, too. Or “progressives” of all types.

Or Friends of Ninigret Park. Or the town police. Or town hall employees (well, most of them). Or the various town committees and commissions and all the people who serve on them. Or the “intellectually dishonest” Progressive Charlestown.

Hanging around his neck along with a bag of garlic and a silver cross is a satchel full of Jim’s collection of court suits and administrative complaints he has filed against Charlestown. And all of them vindicate his belief that he is the smartest guy in town, a true crime-fighter, the town’s all-time greatest crusader for justice and fair play.

Boooooooooo!