BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY SEPT. 28, 2016) — Fifty refugees showed up tired, hungry, and broke but otherwise in good health. They were driven out of their homes by war, politics, and the totalitarian actions of a government not interested in their concerns.

Overflow crowd at library auditorium violated every fire code known, but since this was about the “progressives'” do-gooding, officials looked the other way. To the best of THE PLANET’s knowledge, no one yelled “fire.” (PHOTO: Andy McKeever, iBERKSHIRES)

The fifty were former Pittsfield residents who sought asylum at the Fortress of Solitude. They had been driven from their homes by punishing taxes, lack of an economy, and a surplus of services for the “gimme gang.” The refugees who came to the Fortress gates were members of what used to be called “the middle class.” The mayor’s office, city council, and school committee of Pittsfield didn’t have as much as an ice cube for them. The officials are “progressives.”  They  volunteer Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski to give until it hurts but do nothing themselves from their gated enclaves.

In the Fortress, THE PLANET treated the refugees from Pittsfield to bon mots and the witticisms that ensue from much good wine.

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On Monday night, the city of Pittsfield allowed Jewish Family Services of Western Massashusetts (JFS), the Pittfield Area Council of Congregations (PACC), the Berkshire Immigrant Centers (BIC), the New American Program (NAP), Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), and City Officials that Understand Government Hubris (COUGH) to violate every fire law in existence by cramming close to 500 people, sardine style, into the 200-capacity Berkshire Athenaeum auditorium. You try that and see how far you get. Question: How could that happen? Perhaps our Right Honorable Good Friend John (“You Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee”) Krol can inform us. Krol, sources say, signed off on the room.

JFS, PACC, BIC, and NAP told COUGH they would require a space for a public meeting. Told. As in ordered. This alphabet soup of “budinsky” do-gooders let it be known at a 60-minute “informational” briefing that the city would be hosting 50 Syrian refugees. Period. Like it or Not. As in, “Dya’ fallah?”

The Dreaded ‘Public-Private Partnership’

Deidre Griffin of JFS’s NAP tells Pittsfield how great this is going to be. She’s a liberal. She knows better than you do. She’s from Springfield. (Photo Andy McKeever, iBERKSHIRES).

Want to know everything about this deal? THE PLANET summons JFS’s NAP Deidre Griffin,  who let the TOOB (the terrorist out of the bag) when she called “a public-private partnership.” Griffin is from Springfield. She knows what’s best for the hicks in Pittsfield.

“Egads, no!,” said the retiree to the taxpayers. “Not the dreaded public-private partnership.”

You know how those deals work out. The “public” (taxpayers) takes the financial risk while the “private” (everybody else, especially those whose jobs depend on it) make out. How else do you think the JAF president/CEO and treasurer pull down about $300,000 a year in total compensation? Incidentally, JAF CEO is Maxine Stein. Stein was at the meeting measuring the minutes in C-notes.

Griffin claimed without evidence that the refugee program is “very structured” and that each refugee is “thoroughly checked out.” This from a group that couldn’t even organize a simple meeting, or hadn’t you heard how chaotic and unplanned everything was? Griffin admitted that “we are saying yes to something that has a level of unpredictably to it.That is just a reality. There is no way around it.”

THE PLANET begs to differ. There is a simple way around it: Just say no. Why is this not a local decision? Griffen said many refugees become business owners. Just what Pittsfield needs, “Terror R Us” setting up shop at the old KFC on East Street.

 ‘Meeting Was a Propaganda Session’

Here are some thoughts sent to THE PLANET on this topic:

“That refugee meeting was a joke. It is scary how manipulated things are in Pittsfield. Are we becoming North Korea with all information and public opinion stifled?”  — heh heh

“Last night’s meeting was really a propaganda session” — Really?

“I knew in the first few minutes we were being hosed with kool aid. I though I was attending a public meeting in a public building. If I wanted a prayer meeting I would go to a church.” — Paul

“I knew it was a sham when I saw TFB yucking it up with Griffin before the meeting even started.” — LoneGunMan

“The meeting was nothing more than a set-up.” — Spider

“The organizers of the meeting know a whole lot more information than they conveyed. I wonder how many locals are in on the lie.” — 12 Gauge

“FBI Director James Comey announced again that a successful campaign against ISIS will produce a ‘terrorist diaspora.’ The communities with Islam refugees will be natural targets for this network. See http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-27/military-success-against-isis-will-create-terrorist-diaspora-james-comey-says

I hope Pittsfield and Bloomington avoid the risk. I am angry at the moral dictators in both places who have decided that helping the refugees is a superior moral position to protecting Americans. We need to shut these people down.” — Charles Trzcinka

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Meanwhile, those who read the story at The Boring Broadsheet were unable to post comments. Isn’t free speech wonderful?

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“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you want or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” — Malcolm X

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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