World Class Lawless City

World Class Lawless City

[This letter was published in the Cambridge Chronicle on August 14, 2008.]

Big difference between Boston and Cambridge. (Raymond P. Ausrotas, "It isn’t easy being a green room," Cambridge Chronicle, Aug 04, 2008) The Attorney General former DA for Middlesex is married to a Deputy Superintendent of the Cambridge Police Department. The Court Clerk is/was a Sullivan City Councilor for 40 years. Open Meetings law violations are enforced by the DA and the courts. Besides the City Councilors, their aides often block doors to meetings saying they are private. This happens especially when Harvard seeks special exemptions from city and state laws. The councilors have private discussions with selected citizens who are Harvard affiliates or grads. They did that with the sale of city land on Hingham Street and the grad dorms there. There are so many law violations with the running of the city it deserves the title a World Class lawless city. Each week they run council meetings in violation of their own rules, Robert's Rules of Order, and state laws. Much of what the council does may not be legal. But there is no one to challenge their lawlessness. After 10 years of making them aware it is clear that this city has no regard for law except to use it to silence their critics. Cambridge has few deep pocketed activists. Most of the city supports a lawless government. Trust Fund babies are not supporters of the rule of law.

Roy Bercaw - Editor ENOUGH ROOM

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x2043522362/Guest-commentary-It-isn-t-easy-being-a-green-room

It isn’t easy being a green room
By Raymond P. Ausrotas
Cambridge Chronicle
Mon Aug 04, 2008, 11:40 AM EDT