VOL. 116 - NO. 16 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 20, 2012 $.30 A COPY PATRIOT’S DAY 2012 THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL The Old North Church hosted the 237th Anniversary Annual Lantern Ceremony on Sunday, April 15, 2012 that Law and Justice Day Breakfast set in motion the American Revolution — which gave us by Adriana Guida one of the most famous phrases in American history: “One if by land, Two if by sea.” This year, The Old North Church honored the work of the Red Sox Foundation and Massa- chusetts General Hospital’s Home Base Program, which assists veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. The 2012 keynote speaker was General (Ret.) Fred Franks. The lantern carriers were children of soldiers on active duty in Afghanistan. HONORABLE ASSISTANT DR. KAREN OFFICER EDWARD M. VIOLA DISTRICT ATTORNEY PANETTA ROBERT DeNAPOLI Justice Award MICHAEL FABBRI Public Service Distinguished Law Award Award Service Award The Twenty-Ninth Annual Law and Jus- Medford Court. Since his retirement, Judge tice Day Breakfast sponsored by the Com- Viola has continued his community involve- mission for Social Justice of the Grand Lodge ment as a CCD teacher at St. Patrick’s of Massachusetts, Order Sons of Italy in Church in Watertown. America will be held on Sunday, May 6, 2012 This year’s recipient of the “Law Award” at The Crestview, 36 Montvale Avenue, is Assistant District Attorney Michael Woburn, Massachusetts beginning at 9:00 am. Fabbri. ADA Fabbri serves as the Chief Trial The Commission is pleased and honored Counsel for the Middlesex District to announce the following recipients of this Attorney’s Office (MDAO). Over the course year’s awards. of his two-decade long career, he has held The recipient of the “Justice Award” is The several positions in the MDAO, including Honorable Edward M. Viola, Ret. Judge Viola Chief of the Special Investigations Unit, was first appointed as a Special Justice to Deputy Chief of the Appeals and Training Lantern Presentation: Arthur Coviello (Chair, Old North the Natick District Court in April 1973. From Bureau, and Framingham Regional Super- Foundation and Executive Chair, RSA, Security Division that point forward, he served with distinc- visor. He has also served in the Office of of EMC presents the lantern to Gen. (Ret) Frederick M. tion in courts throughout the Common- the Attorney General as an Assistant Attor- Franks, Jr. wealth, presiding over criminal, civil, juve- ney General in the Criminal Bureau, and (Continued on Page 8) nile, and other cases until his retirement as Deputy Chief of the Medicaid Fraud Con- in 1999. He also has the honor of being the News Briefs first Italian-American judge appointed to the (Continued on Page 15) by Sal Giarratani North End to Honor its Historical Prado Can Obama Get Re-elected This Year? and the Sculptor of Paul Revere Sadly, I think he can and might pull it off. According to most polls, the NY Times/CBS poll says, Obama’s approval rate is now 41 percent. CYRUS DALLIN, According to the Washington Post/ABC poll that number is even lower at 38 percent. Either way, HIS PAUL REVERE STATUE AND THE PRADO this president should be facing the same electoral predicament that Jimmy Carter faced in 1980 but Community Celebration: will he? For most of us with eyes to see and ears Sunday, April 29, 2012, 12-4 PM, Paul Revere Mall, Boston’s North End to hear, this Obama Administration can’t seem Public Lecture: to do anything right yet does a great job of spin- th ning with the liberal media’s assistance. Thursday, May 17 , 7:00 PM, Old North Church, Boston’s North End Personally, I think liberals would like to see all Boston’s North End/Waterfront community of us driving tiny little cars and drive them much will host a fair on Sunday afternoon, less. I don’t understand things in Washington. The April 29, from Noon to 4:00 pm, at the Paul price of gasoline goes up because we continue to Revere Mall on Hanover Street in com- be held hostage by our enemies who have oil. The memoration of the great American sculptor only way to drive down the price is to drill for more Cyrus Dallin, his Paul Revere Monument, oil on our soil and to stop being dependent on oil and the Paul Revere Mall, designed by the from countries that basically hate us. However, famed landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff Obama seems to be an enemy of drilling and this and architect Henry Shepley. creates the crisis we now see as prices soar at The public will have the opportunity to the pumps. When the supply is increased, the learn about the perseverance and vision of price must drop. It is called the law of supply and Dallin, Shurcliff, and other individuals who demand. were responsible for planning and preserv- Perhaps, we all should just ride around on bikes ing this public treasure, which is among the or segways? Every time I hear the White House most visited and photographed sites in or Department of Energy sermonize about energy America. Other historical presentations (Continued on Page 13) throughout the afternoon will focus on the Paul Revere Statue (Photo by Matt Conti) patriot Paul Revere, and on the history of Boston’s North End neighborhood. (Continued on Page 10) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 20, 2012 Res Publica by David Trumbull Our First, Most Cherished Liberty GETTING THE TROUSSEAU OVER THE TORSO The United States Confer- mandate as unconstitu- Continuing with our cov- parted by using the point of came the signing of the ence of Catholic Bishops re- tional. It is unconstitutional. erage of ancient Roman a spear, reminiscent of the “tabulae nuptiales” or mar- cently published a statement In the early days of our marriages, we are told that old custom of marriage by riage tablet, in the presence on the attacks, by local, state Republic Thomas Jefferson on the day prior to the cer- capture. Lastly, the bride of the “signatores” (wit- and federal government, on assured an order of nuns emony the bride placed all carried a wreath of flowers nesses), while the bride and religious liberty now hap- who served mostly a non- her childhood belongings and sacred herbs which she groom were questioned re- pening across America. Catholic population by run- before the household gods had gathered by herself. The garding their willingness to They cite case after case. ning a hospital, an orphan- and put on a garment called bride’s house was decorated accept the vows. The second • The Obamacare mandate age, and schools that the a “tunica recta” or “regilla.” with wreaths of leaves and part was the giving away of that Catholic institutions principles of the Constitu- This dress was worn at the flowers. Friends and relatives the bride, wherein a married pay for medical proce- tion were a “sure guarantee” wedding in addition to a also assembled for the wed- woman in her first marriage, dures they find morally that their ministry would be “flammeum” the most im- ding. The solemn marriage acting as a “pronuba” or pa- impermissible. free to govern itself accord- portant part of the wedding ceremony was called “con- troness of marriage, led the • The singling out of ing to its own voluntary outfit. The name flammeum fereatio” and it was usually bride up to the bridegroom Christian student groups rules, without interference was derived from the bril- performed in the presence of and joined their right hands. for expulsion from the cam- from the civil authority. th liant yellow or flamelike a “Pontifex Maximus” (high A cake made from spelt puses of public colleges. Such was the law in the 19 color of the garment. It was priest) and at least ten wit- (coarse wheat) was offered to • The banning, as in Mas- century and such was the th large enough to cover her nesses. A sheep was sacri- the gods while both bride and sachusetts and other states, law through the 20 century, st from head to toe, and during ficed and then the omens groom sat side by side on of Catholic organizations and into the 21 century the ceremony it hid her sad were consulted. On these stools that had been covered from assisting in adoptions until the Obama Adminis- expression of virgin modesty. festive occasions, care was with the skin of the poor of children. tration announced that She also wore a woolen belt taken to protect oneself from sheep that had just been • A City of New York “crack- Catholic institutions would or sash which was fastened evil omens. For example sacrificed. A prayer was pro- down” on small Protestant have to operate as Washing- in the style of the “nodus when sacrifices were being nounced and directed to five churches. ton bureaucrats dictated Hercules” or knot of Her- made, silence was com- of the Roman mythological • Actions in several states rather than in according cules. This was intended to manded and the bride’s head gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus, to prohibit Catholic, Episco- with the teaching of the promote a fruitful union was veiled. Music was played Suadela, and Diana. Next pal, and Methodist churches Catholic Church. because Hercules had many in order to drown out any came the formal congratula- from performing their long- The bishops have an- children.