VOL. 116 - NO. 26 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 29, 2012 $.30 A COPY 2nd Annual Saint Padre Pio Happy Birthday MASS AND PROCESSION America! from the (Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) Devotees to Saint Padre Pio held a Mass Capuchin Catholic priest from Italy who is Post-Gazette in Italian on Sunday, June 24, 2012 at venerated as a saint in the Catholic St. Leonard Church in the North End of Church. He was born Francesco Forgione, Boston. Following the Mass there was a and given the name Pius (Italian: Pio) when procession throughout the streets of the he joined the Capuchins, thus he was North End accompanied by The North End popularly known as Padre Pio. He became Marching Band. famous for his bearing the stigmata. News Briefs Saint Pio (Pius) of Pietrelcina, O.F.M. Cap., On June 16, 2002, he was canonized by (25 May 1887 – 23 September 1968) was a Pope John Paul II. by Sal Giarratani (More Photos on Page 5) Obama Can’t Let the Stinkin’ Independence Day — Thank the Troops! Constitution Get in the Way, Can He? by Martin C. Boire, Chairman, SupportOurTroops® On Friday, June 15 President Barack Obama, When we all go out and protected by individuals the way they have stepped in one of his many brazen acts of pandering, has celebrate our liberty this stepping up for their fellows up for all of us. We can show offered de facto amnesty to about 800,000 chil- Independence Day, let’s against the dark forces. It them what we are made of. dren brought to this country by their illegal im- each take note that it’s the recognizes a freedom to not We can show them we’re migrant parents. This appears to be a shameless troops who gained that lib- be told by a government with them. That we are will- move to win over Latino votes. Acting more like erty for us in the American what you’ll do for a living, ing to stand with them who the President of some banana republic than the Revolution and it’s the troops when and what you will work stand for us. It’s the simplest President of the United States, he decided that who protect it for us today. at, whether you’re permitted moral equation in the world. since Capitol Hill wouldn’t do what he wanted, he It’s the troops, not the politi- to travel or not based on They Support Us — Let’s would just do an end-run around the legislative cians, and not the courts, their evaluations, how Support Them!® branch of our government. “Who needs a stinkin’ who then secured and today much money will or will not The first step to properly Congress or Constitution?” when you are the protect your freedom. be doled out to you, what you celebrating the Fourth of “anointed one,” eh? Independence Day is a cel- will be permitted or not per- July is to do something prac- Obama wanted the “Dream Act” to pass up on ebration of America’s first mitted to do, whether or not tical for the troops who make Capitol Hill but it wasn’t to be as it remains stalled military victory — an inde- you can engage in a particu- it possible. by Republicans. So, he decided seemingly that the pendence gained for all of us lar business and hundreds There’s a war on. And only way to look good to Latinos was to do an extra- by George Washington’s of other small everyday each of us can answer this constitutional strategy around the legislative log- army assembled from choices and decisions. call to excellence in the way jam preventing passage of his dreamy “Dream Act.” amongst us, and we have And just like George Wash- we best can. Everyone His poll numbers aren’t good as he remains in ever since enjoyed the ben- ington and the Continental should step up and make the not so great shape closing in on Campaign ’12 eficial results of their ac- Army, our deployed neigh- troops as proud of us as we and the election is in November. This latest move tions. bors even today leave their are of them. Show them that looks like a serious case of presidential pander- Independence Day is not families at home and go we are worthy of their ac- ing. Back in 2003, Gov. Gray Davis tried the same merely a party day in which around the world to many tions, — that we are worth thing. He offered driver licenses to millions of we enter into some tempo- different places to look out protecting. illegals to shore up his Latino fans to fight off a rary mental euphoria of for our liberties, livelihoods Individuals can donate to recall vote. This *&^$# off California voters and “feeling free.” It is a recog- and businesses. troop support charities and Gray got the recall instead. Obama says his lat- nition of the hard work, self- And no matter where the send care packages to de- est Executive Order is not amnesty but it really reliance, self-determination, troops are ordered to go, good ployed troops round the world. looks like it to me and millions of others. U.S. blood, sweat and tears of the Americans always stick up They can help with family Sen. Marco Rubio, (R-FL) believes this latest move troops that it takes to gain for the folks who stick up for needs and the funding of spe- will only increase the number of illegals sneak- and maintain a societal con- them. cial summer camps for mili- (Continued on Page 13) dition of many individual What, then, should we do tary kids here at home. personal freedoms. It recog- for him, for her? Why, we nizes a freedom gained and can simply step up for them (Continued on Page 6) 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, JUNE 29, 2012 Res Publica by David Trumbull Independence Day 2012 “In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the THE ROOTS OF YOUR SALAMI predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the Destructive forces of na- concrete to resist the de- know them. The use of the whole. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English ture usually include earth- structive agencies of time braziers added the risk of Colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ... quakes, volcanoes, storms, and weather, better than noxious fumes and were — Edmund Burke, floods, etc. It might seem much of the stone. Still an- serious fire hazards. People addressing the English House of Commons, strange for some of us to dis- other volcano left that inde- often spoke of the good for- March 22, 1775. cover that these destructive structible granite which en- tune of the homeless beg- At ten o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, July 4th, the forces often leave benefits abled them to make those gars who had nothing to fear Declaration of Independence will be read out to the for mankind and that these Roman paving stones that from charcoal fumes or assembled people from the balcony of the Old State House benefits accrue and become have no equal anywhere burning houses. just as it first was in Boston on July 18, 1776. obvious in strange ways. In else in the world. The volca- These early Romans were The document is tripartite. The preamble contains a order to get to the roots of nic eruption that is of most a frugal people, the poorest general justification of self-government. It ends with the your salami we must go concern at this particular classes subsisted on a basic formal declaration of severance of ties to Great Britain and back to an earlier issue time is the one which diet of coarse bread, a por- the establishment of a new sovereign entity, the United when I wrote that there was caused hot ashes and debris ridge made from millet or States of America. Between these lies an enumeration of a time when Rome and its to completely bury a growing polenta meal, and their the outrages of King George III which justify this revolu- suburbs were covered with forest like a giant coal bin, usual drink was water. The tionary act. the quiet blue waters of while at the same time high fire risk and the lack They are — or ought to be — familiar to us. They would the Tyrrhenian Sea. It all shaping the Palatine Hill. In of refrigeration kept cooking have sounded familiar to hearers in 1776 as well, for the started when nature com- time, this buried forest was methods down to a primitive Americans’ bill of indictment of King George echoes in many bined its forces in a series converted into a gigantic minimum and caused even ways the 1689 English Bill of Rights — an indictment of of volcanic eruptions which charcoal reservoir. Nature the great middle-class to King James II after he abdicated the throne. The English formed a cosmic spectacle, was kind in providing the concentrate on low spoilage Bill of Rights declared that the king had subverted the laws so long ago, that no human fuel for those hundreds of foods.