2015 Columbus Day Parade the Elephants Dine by Matt Conti in the North End
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VOL. 119 - NO. 42 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OCTOBER 16, 2015 $.35 A COPY When the Circus Comes to Boston ... 2015 Columbus Day Parade The Elephants Dine by Matt Conti in the North End (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) The North End Bi-Annual Pressley, Michelle Wu and come back the Order Sons of Columbus Day Parade was held Michael Flaherty along with Italy to the North End parade Sunday October 11, beginning candidate Annissa Essaibi- this year. at City Hall Plaza and making George. A special highlight of this (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) its way through downtown Bos- Leading the first division were year’s event was the Giostra ton and the waterfront and into Boston Police and Fire honor Cavalleresca di Sulmona from the North End. Boston Mayor guard, U.S. Air Force and other the Abruzzo region of Italy. The Marty Walsh was Grand military. Of course, there were group brought their medieval Marshall accompanied by Dis- plenty of marching bands, drum Gostra (Joust) costumes, trum- News Briefs trict 1 City Councilor Sal & bugle corps, antique cars, pets, drums and flag throwing by Sal Giarratani LaMattina and State Rep. North End feast floats, Italian- performers. Also representing Aaron Michlewitz. All four City American organizations and Italy was the Boston Consul Councilors-at-large marched, community groups. The parade General Nicola De Santis and Obama-Hillary Target Gun Makers? Stephen Murphy, Ayanna organizers were happy to wel- his Family. The latest word is that both President Obama and (Additional photos on Page 9) Hillary Clinton may support an end- run around the Constitution by allowing folks to sue gun makers if a mass killer strikes again, like in Oregon. Tie gun manufacturers up in court with lawsuits and In Honor of Columbus Day ... payouts. Eventually this industry may shrink and the end result is fewer guns being made. The Second Italian Flag Raising and Joust at Boston City Hall Amendment becomes useless if you can’t legally pur- chase a gun. by Matt Conti Rather than go after those who make the guns, why not go after those who own illegal guns and use them illegally. If someone who owns a vehicle kills someone while driving drunk, who or what takes the blame? Isn’t it the person driving under the influence responsible? We don’t arrest the vehicle, do we? No one sues Ford or General Motors, they sue the driver. The Bill of Rights doesn’t list the rights government gives us, it lists the rights government may not take away from us. Wanna See a Great Movie? The other evening I was changing the channels on my TV and came across my favorite movie from back in 1992. It is named Illegal Entry and stars actor Ray Liotta, who was a big-time actor in the ’90s. In this movie he plays a very creepy psychotic cop who wears a pair of great aviator sunglasses. I like those glasses so much I bought a pair and wore them to work. I was a police officer and those glasses looked so cool with my uni- form. (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) I still wear the same kind of sunglasses and refer to them as my Ray Liotta Psychotic Cop Sunglasses to For the second time in history, the Italian year’s event was the Giostra Cavalleresca di this day. Check out this movie, it’s a classic. flag was raised at Boston City Hall next to Sulmona from the Abruzzo region of Italy. The the American flag. The October 9th ceremony group brought their medieval Gostra (Joust) (Continued on Page 14) kicked off the Italian Heritage events for costumes, trumpets, drums and flag throwing Columbus Day weekend. Highlighting this performances. (Additional photos on Page 8) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, 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, OCTOBER 16, 2015 Res Publica by David Trumbull Obama’s Trade Deal with Socialist Vietnam VESTA In the earlier morning hours Democratic candidate for Vesta was the Roman goddess dess, and devoted to her a space of October 5th, the United States president, Hillary Clinton, has of the hearth, similar to the of ground just in front of his own reached an historic agreement come out against TPP. Of Greek goddess Hestia, but she dwelling house. It is also inter- giving the Socialist Republic of course, what candidates say was worshipped by the Romans esting to note that at this time Vietnam better access to the and what elected politicians do during ancient times indepen- in history; about 700 B.C, the U.S. market than we give to are seldom the same when it dently of any connection with king was the high priest, and in most of our trading partners, comes to international trade Greece. this office he was known as including Italy and the rest of policy. The worship of Vesta goes “Pontifex Maximus” or “Pontiff.” Western Europe. The pact, As a candidate Senator back to the time when it was dif- There were at least five suc- known as the Trans-Pacific Obama was critical of the North ficult but necessary to obtain cessive temples here in Rome Partnership, or TPP, includes American Free Trade Agreement fire. Then, as well as even now that were built in honor of this ten other nations, but most of (NAFTA) signed into law by his among some primitive tribes, goddess, and all adhered to the them either already have trade Democratic predecessor Bill they developed the custom of same style of architecture. It arrangements with the U.S. or Clinton in 1993. Now as always keeping a fire alive for the was always a small circular edi- are too small to matter. In seven President — and with three de- use of the community, and even fice with a domed roof that was years in office, President Obama cades of American job losses to carry it to new settlements. supported on columns. This was has negotiated one trade agree- due to NAFTA and similar trade This custom was preserved in thought to typify the round ment (compared to 12 negoti- pacts — Mr. Obama offers the religion of later Greeks and earth and the vaulted sky. The ated by President Bush) and it’s us more of the same failed job- Romans even after more mod- interior contained a low circu- with a socialist nation. destroying policy. ern technologies had been lar altar upon which burned the According to Mr. Obama’s own Speaking of Clinton, as a can- developed. perpetual fire. The maintenance State Department: didate Bill Clinton criticized the The sacred fire, the source of of this fire was the chief duty of The Socialist Republic of Viet- first President Bush on trade. He all Roman life and power, was the six vestals. nam … is an authoritarian state said that Bush’s policy of giving kept alive in a structure known Numa’s temple stood for about ruled by the Communist Party of China temporary access to the as the Temple of Vesta, and it three centuries until the Gauls A statue of Vesta. Vietnam … During the year U.S. market was kowtowing to was constantly tended by a burned Rome in 390 B.C. It was [2009] the government increased the “butchers of Beijing.” But as group of virgin priestesses that have her attendants live in soon rebuilt and the second edi- its suppression of dissent, arrest- president, Mr. Clinton arranged were known as the Vestals. They guarded seclusion in a structure fice stood for about fifty years. ing several political activists … for China’s permanent access to resided near the temple in the we now call “The House of the The third temple to Vesta stood Several editors and reporters our market and entry into the Forum Romanum. The whole Vestal Virgins” or “Atrium until the great fire under Nero, from prominent newspapers World Trade Organization. concept goes back into antiquity Vestae.” and the fourth lasted for about were fired for reporting on Mr. Obama’s TPP now goes to where the Vestals represented The temple was a round struc- one hundred years. The remains official corruption … Police com- Congress. It will be taken up the daughters of the primitive ture, probably reminiscent of which now mark the conse- monly mistreated suspects dur- under a controversial rule called tribal chief, and they kept alive the tribal chief’s hut, and this crated site belong to the last re- ing arrest or detention … Indi- Trade Promotion Authority, the State fire in their father’s edifice was the most venerated building by Septimius Severus viduals were arbitrarily detained or “Fast Track.” Under Fast hut. The public worship of this of all temples in Rome. and this work is contemporary for political activities and denied Track, there can be no amend- goddess was maintained in the Tradition tells us that the first with the great arch of Septimius the right to fair and expeditious ments, just a yes or no vote. Fast temple of Vesta, but her private temple to Vesta was built by Severus at the opposite end of trials. The government continued Track also sets out a specific worship was preserved in every Numa Pompilius, the successor the Forum. to limit citizens’ privacy rights calendar.