SouthBoston TODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door MARCH 6, 2014; Vol.2 Issue 16 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE To South This Week’s Boston and Our Veterans – Poll On We’ve Got Page 2 Your Back A Note To Mass Equality et’s cut to the chase. The South Boston Today South Boston Parade, L first and foremost, is and has always been a celebration of the birth of our nation, our Irish ancestry and the role of patriots in our history. Millions of visitors, cloaked in Kelly green, have made @SBostonToday this community a destination to celebrate these traditions with us, as the winter season heads into spring. For many years, the crowds Go to our South Boston Today have been larger than those of the page to vote on our weekly poll. Boston Marathon. Make sure you like & share CONTINUED ON page 8 Tired of Watching the Buses Pass You By? Tired of Being Late for Work? Tired of Being Packed in Like Sardines? Southie Shuttle Express Service to Back Bay & South Station Starts Soon! AA LimitedLimited NumberNumber ofof SeatsSeats areare Available.Available. CallCall UsUs atat 617-268-4110617-268-4110 oror EmailEmail atat [email protected]@SouthieShuttle.com toto Inquire.Inquire. 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com March 6, 2014 EDITORIAL “You’re not Special” This letter to the Editor the club’s past decisions? asked only that I not wave “don’t they all think when you’re “special” appeared in a daily It’s right of the private the gay flag as a political alike”? Here’s another you can say anything you newspaper March 1st. It organizations to select their statement to distract from shock. Gay people are want to get your own is our decision to omit the participants. I know of gays this day, just as they ask not special. They’re way even when it turns author’s name. It speaks who are marching with their the same of anti-war and Republican, Democrat, out the “contingent” of for itself. straight neighbors, and I anti-abortion protestors. Conservative, Liberal and vets didn’t have enough Gays Don’t Need to Wave Flag know of more than a dozen For St. Patrick’s Day I go everything else under the vets for a 4-person color to Revel in Southie Parade gay parties by their rules, and for Gay sun just like everybody guard. Eighteen months ago, In Southie for the St. Pride they follow ours. The else and isn’t that the Grow up. Gay people Condoleezza Rice joined Patrick’s Day Parade. only people boycotting the goal? Isn’t that the have been our friends the Augusta National Golf We clearly will not be parade this year are those point? Like extremists and neighbors for a Club, one of the first two boycotting, despite the paid, or charged, to be of every persuasion there long time now. We live women admitted. Should wishes of many observers politically correct. Either are those who think together 364 days and she have refused? Augusta (“Walsh pushes for gay that or they can’t recognize they’re a little better, you people are nowhere is still a private organization groups in parade,” Page progress when they see it. they’re a little special. to be found. For one day choosing whomever it likes. A1, Feb. 27). At some They probably would’ve To them it’s not enough every year the extremists Should she have deferred point we have to stop turned down membership to be simply admired as try to pit us against each until the club reflected being gay activists. I’ve to Augusta National and a an Iraq-Afghan veteran. other. Nobody’s special. the diversity of America? fought my entire life to chance for change. No, to them if you’re a Everybody’s the same, Should she have worn a be accepted, to fit in, and A South Boston Resident gay Iraq-Afghan Veteran except for Southie residents MalcolmX T-shirt on her to belong. The Allied Spoke Up: you deserve “special” of course. Now they’re first day of play to protest War Veterans Council has Some will be shocked, recognition. Of course something special. “Of the 4 wars in my lifetime, none came about because America was too strong”-President Ronald Reagan - Veteran This Week’s Poll Do the Allied War Veterans deserve more respect than they are getting from the daily press, special interest groups,and others? YES Make sure you like & or share South Boston NO Today with your friends! www.SouthBostonToday.com South BostonToday @SBostonToday www.southbostontoday.com SouthBoston PO Box 491 • South Boston, MA 02127 TODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door South Boston Today is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond the cost of Publisher Editor In Chief Managing Editor the space occupied by the error. All South Boston Today produced artwork, design, and layout John Ciccone Brian R. Mahoney Brian P. Wallace remain the sole property of South Boston Today. Reproduction in whole or part is strictly forbidden. South Boston Today reserves the right to cut, edit or reject any copy without notice. [email protected] • [email protected] South Boston Today is a Series of the Today Publications Series LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Deadlines 396 West Broadway • 617.268.4032 • Office hours: Mon-Fri 10:00am - 2:00pm Press Copy - Tuesday at 3:00 P.M - Advertisements - Space Reservation - Monday at 5:00 P.M. Ad Material - Tuesday at 3:00 P.M. Camera Ready Ads - Wednesday at 9:00 A.M. March 6, 2014 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com 3 InformationThe Center Pushback on the Parade: We Stand with our Allied War Veterans SOUTH BOSTON TODAY John Ciccone Note: talk back to John Ciccone by email at [email protected] efore we get to our main gain access under false pretenses. be ‘enlightened’. This earns them when it comes to their parade. topic, we have another Well well! We can’t say we are little, if no, respect, nor should it. There are rules and conditions in B request from the great shocked. It’s a tactic that would-be Will there be gay persons in the place for everyone. One of those veteran John Mullen of the Thomas parade crashers have tried in the parade marching in the units? Of rules which is clearly articulated F Fitzgerald Veteran’s post. John past. In the 1990’s, it was found course, there always has been, is that no group, organization or respectfully asks that no more that the gay rights group that did they are welcome and no one has a individual that wants to be in this flowers be left at the World War II get into the parade had among problem with it. celebratory parade will be allowed Memorial on the beach. Though its membership some of the very Most South Bostonians already to display any sexually themed or placing of flowers there is a same people who were disrupting know this, but for the few who radically themed messages. Gay, thoughtful and beautiful act, it’s church services around the city don’t and for the people out of straight or whatever, it doesn’t causing a mess; especially with all and throwing condoms at priests. town who only hear what a self- matter; absolutely no message the bad weather. So at least until Then of course there is the so serving trouble causing press wants referring to sexual orientation will further notice, please no more called Veteran’s for Peace’ who them to believe, the South Boston be allowed. Don’t like the rules? flowers. Thank you! originally claimed they wanted to Allied Veterans have a policy CONTINUED ON page 4 Last weekend, Mayor Walsh march to celebrate St. Patrick’s made a statement regarding the Day but as it happens, their real annual media circus that always goal is to turn Southie’s parade into swirls around South Boston’s St. a protest against our military. And Patrick’s Day/Evacuation Day now we have Mass Equality as yet Parade. He said he has “already another group who seems to have spent too much time on this issue”. no problem misrepresenting itself Right you are Marty, way too much to gain access. Not only are we time. This is an issue deliberately told that they probably could not stirred up each year at this time even come up with 20 legitimate to gain publicity for the ‘agenda veterans to march as they said they driven’. Some people see it as would, but when pressed, some Mayor Walsh being baited by the of them didn’t even know what a press and manipulated by some of color guard was. Busted!! These the radical organizations looking groups never learn. They try to for publicity and pushed along by portray our veterans as stupid, but the progressive left higher-ups in the vets always outsmart them, his administration. And we believe don’t they. we know exactly who those higher But the biggest problem is not ups are. the radical groups with disruption And as of this past Tuesday, as their goal, it’s some of this city’s the decision by the South Boston and this state’s elected officials, Allied War Veterans is this: No! No members of the press, and a to the Mass Equality group who few of our own neighbors, who applied to bring in a group of gay immediately take the side of the veterans to march in this year’s attackers and demand our vets give parade.