Are you
visiting here because you have seen the brilliant and talented fiction of John Goodman and Michael Chambers? Are you curious about how this website, which the
Charlestown Democratic Town Committee has no influence over (despite continuing
claims by Goodman and Chambers to the contrary), compares the CCA to the “final
solution”?
For you,
prospective regular reader, here are some resources so you can judge for
yourself instead of blindly accepting what others write. We just ask that you
share this with others who may be gullible enough to accept what Goodman and
Chambers write, at face value.
There is
continuing propaganda on the CCA website, emails and letters in the Westerly
Sun that we compare the CCA, conservationists, hikers and puppy lovers to
Hitler.
Folks who frequent online commenting boards are no doubt familiar with
Godwin’s law, which states: "As an
online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis
or Hitler approaches
1."
The CCA actually has its own codicil of Godwin’s law, which states: “Anytime Progressive Charlestown criticizes the CCA, the CCA
response will be to claim that Progressive Charlestown compared someone to
Hitler.”
You can see every article on
Progressive Charlestown that mentions “Hitler” with this link. As an
exercise please count how many of them refer to the groups listed above (CCA,
conservationists, hikers and puppy lovers) in comparison to Hitler and how many
were written by Will Collette or Tom Ferrio. We bet you will find a very small
number, like zero.
You can also
see every
article that mentions “final solution” with this link. (Actually it’s a
list of articles with those two words, not necessarily together.)
And then
there is the word “pogrom”, which was used as hyperbole in one article by Tom Ferrio in 2012.
Hyperbole is a difficult concept for Michael Chambers because we received a
complaint from him in less than an hour. (He certainly is a loyal reader of
Progressive Charlestown!) We were naïve about Chambers’ tenacity at that time
so we reacted to the complaint by removing the word from the article promptly. But that
“incident” is relived regularly by Chambers as an example of what a terrible person
Tom Ferrio is. You can see the actual article and the debate in the comments here. Chambers hopes you will agree with him that he is justified in still bringing it up regularly, and with great indignation.
A recent
article contained a picture with a very commonly used, indeed clichéd, quote
attributed to Hitler. That image was replaced with another when the author
heard of the over-the-top reaction, because she judged the image as
inconsequential to the meat of the article. You can read
that article here.
If you would
like to know what the quote in the image was, you can see it in this
article from Michael Chambers in 2013. It is at the end of the article,
which happens to be attacking the Charlestown Democratic Town Committee. Notice
that it is not on Progressive Charlestown. It is actually on the CCA website
(unless they have removed it since this was published). It is an article by
Michael Chambers. The same Michael Chambers who vilifies Progressive
Charlestown for comparing him and his friends to Hitler (which we don’t). Of
course, the CCA is the model of civility, that’s what they say, so anything on
their website must be inoffensive.
For your
convenience here is the introductory paragraph of Michael Chambers’ article and
the quote, from the end of the article:
“Sometimes an argument is so inane that it is difficult to piece together the logic used by the other side. Such is the case with the Charlestown Democratic Town Committee (CTDC) bloggers recently blaming the departure of the past Town Administrator (TA) on the Charlestown Citizens Alliance. Granted, the dissatisfaction with the past Town Administrator’s actions and decisions was decried by CCA candidates, but unless I have my facts wrong, the CDTC blog’s contention that CCA ousted the past TA is more smoke than fire. A half lie is the most cowardly of lies as Mark Twain said. …”
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”― Adolf Hitler
So now,
please tell us how the CCA is pure as driven snow and the Progressive
Charlestown writers are the epitome of evil?
From
Progressive Charlestown’s Day One, the CCA Party has called it the “hate blog.”
We think that’s because they hate it for exposing their own lies, backdoor
dirty deals and hypocrisy. In every Progressive Charlestown story about
Charlestown politics, you’ll see direct quotes, links to documents and video.
In other words, actual proof, which is not what the CCA leaders are used to. The
facts often interfere with the narrative they prefer.
They also seem to hate the idea that we have a sense of humor. Jealous, I guess, because they
don’t have one.
