VOL. 116 - NO. 19 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 11, 2012 $.30 A COPY Massachusetts Group Making a Happy 1,000 Mile Ride by Horse for Veterans The Fly the Flag Project is organizing a is able to walk short distances. It Mother’s Day salute to veterans with a 1,000 mile ride was time to keep his promise and by three horsemen, from Concord, help those wounded warriors he New Hampshire to Georgia, the origi- came to know. Teddy Roosevelt nal thirteen colonies. would have called him, “a Citizen of Lead by Ron Villareale of Easton, the Republic, the man in the arena.” Massachusetts who has ridden from The Fly the Flag Project has con- Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. tacted the Veterans Affairs Commis- by horse, then return to ride to meet sioners of each of the states. The with officials at the United Nation project now has state coordinators in in New York. He next rode across Rhode Island, Connecticut and Geor- America carrying a proclamation from gia. Calls are pouring into the office from the governor of the state, to the governors many parts of the country, said Rhonde Kunz across the USA. Ron appeared on radio and of Norton, a project spokesperson. “We had TV talk shows across the country. He was a very strong veterans’ community out asked to speak at civic and veterans groups, there”, says Peter Hammond of Cape Cod, conventions, schools and many other ven- “willing to step forward and get the job done.” ues. After his travels by horse, of over 4,000 The project has also heard from veterans’ miles he was inducted into the Long Rid- motorcycle groups, such as Rolling Thun- ers, an international equestrian organi- der, Patriot Guard Riders, Blue Knights and zation’s, hall of fame. others. They want to participate and escort Four years ago Ron was struck with spi- the riders with scores of motorcycles into nal cancer and spent three months at the the major cities of the east coast, when the West Roxbury Veterans Hospital’s Spinal horsemen meet with the mayors. The horse- Cord Injury Unit. There he met many in- men will ask the mayors to fly a specially jured servicemen recovering from their war designed Veterans Pride pennant at city image courtesty of http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/ wounds. He decided then to find a way to halls. help them. When he left the hospital he was For additional information, please visit in a wheelchair and could barely walk. Af- www.flytheflagproject.com or telephone us at ter four years of learning to walk again, Ron 508-377-FLAG. News Briefs FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN PRESENT by Sal Giarratani The Annual Duckling Day Parade U.S. Senator Scott Brown th Right Fit for Bay State? on Mother’s Day, May 13 , in the Boston Common While Democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren is Harvard University Band Leads Parents and Children touting her working class roots and blasting Gen- eral Electric for not paying taxes, she conve- through the Streets of Beacon Hill as they Retrace the Steps of the niently forgets to tell viewers on her latest TV Beloved Characters from the Classic Children’s Story “Make Way for Ducklings” political buy that she’s taken campaign funds from The Friends of the Public Garden will a GE lobbyist. Warren is hoping to do what Martha celebrate Mother’s Day with Boston-area Coakley couldn’t do two years ago when Brown families during its annual Duckling Day ran against her. The Democrats running the parade on Sunday May 13th. Registration Warren for U.S. Senate campaign are trying to will begin at 10:30 am and the parade will paint a picture of Scott Brown as part of the na- begin at noon. Based on the children’s tional right wing campaign to get Obama. U.S. classic Make Way for Ducklings by Robert Senator Brown is a Massachusetts Republican McCloskey, Duckling Day is an annual in the tradition of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and event where children and their families Edward W. Brooke. Brown votes his conscience retrace the steps of the beloved characters, and several times has veered off party line course. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and their family He is a moderate conservative and far more open of eight ducklings. Led by the Harvard minded than most of his colleagues on both sides University Band, the parade will begin at of the aisle in the U.S. Senate. the Boston Common on the corner of At least Warren has softened her negative ap- Beacon and Park Street. Children will proach since it wasn’t working in her favor. parade through Beacon Hill dressed like Brown took a recent morning tour around the characters from the story and end in the Bunker Hill Mall in Charlestown guided by some Public Garden near the famous duckling pretty astute Townie political activists. He re- sculptures. ceived a really good reception from many die-hard Prior to the parade there will be plenty of Democrats who like what he’s been saying and family entertainment including a face doing since getting elected in 2010. He has the painter, balloon artist and a magician. Mayor charm of a Yankee like Lodge blended with the Menino will greet families at the end of the political charisma of a Jack Kennedy. He’s in the parade and actors from the Wheelock Senate to stay for a while. Elizabeth Warren meet Family Theater will do a dramatic reading your future and her name is Martha Coakley. from the book. (Continued on Page 14) For further information, please log on to www.friendsofthepublicgarden.org or call (617) 267-7366 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, MAY 11, 2012 Res Publica by David Trumbull Obama Administration Announces New Trade Agreements DIVORTUM Designed to Kill U.S. Jobs The Roman word “divor- and this was necessary for started calling him “smiling tum” generally signified a its creation as well as its Cicero.” A man named The Obama Administration has announced a free trade separation, a divorce, or a continuance. Either party Sempronius Sophus di- agreement with Colombia to go into effect Tuesday. U.S. dissolution of marriage. Di- could declare his or her in- vorced his wife because she import duties will go to zero. However, U.S. producers will vorce was unknown in Rome tention to end the marriage attended public games with- find that their exports to Colombia will be subject to a 16% during very ancient times, and no decree or interfer- out his knowledge. Some Valued Added Tax (“VAT”). th and the first recorded in- ence by any public author- women in Rome kept a Back on March 15 the Obama Administration imple- stance occurred in 233 B.C. ity was necessary. A divorce record of the passing years mented the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. U.S. tariffs when a marriage was ended without mutual consent by the number of their hus- go to zero. Korea will retain a 10% VAT on imports from because of barrenness. whereby only one party re- bands. One author mentions America. There were a number of de- nounced the union was a woman who had eight hus- In both agreements U.S. duties will be bound at zero for grees of marriage, but two of called a “repudium.” In this bands in five years and who the duration of the agreement (which has no termination the most common being case it was customary to claimed that the fruit of date). Colombia and Korea are free to increase VAT on those “with agreement” and first send a “Dear Jane or marriage was divorce. imports from American at any time. those called free marriages John” letter and state a rea- Penalties were imposed on Aside from the debate over the theory of free trade — “without agreement.” A mar- son. The letter was signed in those persons who entered economists are divided on the overall benefits versus cost riage “with agreement” was the presence of seven wit- into divorce without a good of global free trade — these are not free trade agreements. a highly religious ceremony, nesses and the keys were cause and also on those The agreements the U.S. has with Colombia, with Korea performed with solemn rites taken away as the partner whose conduct made divorce and all the agreements back to NAFTA are what my col- before a “Pontifex Maximus” was turned out of the house. necessary. During early league George S. calls, “import maximization agreements.” (high priest) and ten wit- Women were not without Christian times the right They are designed to bring into the U.S. the maximum nesses, which could never their equal rights in the of free divorce was defined amount of cheap foreign products, with resulting loss of under any circumstances be matter; either she or her in the law, but any divorce U.S. jobs. Opening foreign markets for U.S.-made products severed. The so-called “free father had the right to dis- outside of these laws was is not a priority for our government negotiators, as marriages” were dissoluble solve a marriage. Towards severely punished. The witnessed by the unequal outcome (we go to zero tax on (who ever heard of a free the latter part of the “Repub- emperor Justinian pun- imports while our trading partners keep a 10% or 16% tax marriage?).