Ludington Indivisible and Ludington Invisible

[XLFD]

On Monday of this week Brenda Reeber announced there would be a Women's March held this Saturday, January 18th, at Rotary Park in Ludington between 1 and 3 PM.  Reeber, a member of Ludington Indivisible, is among three other groups organizing the event locally, to mirror a similar march being held at the nation's capital.

“(The march) is about so many human rights issues ... (but) it’s also about the 2020 election and getting people to vote,” Reeber announced. “I think (the election) will be the most important one of our lifetime.”

She would have an op-ed in the Reader's Forum the next day explaining a lot more:

Everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion and if your opinion echoes the sentiments of Reeber and an entity I can't seem to locate named Ludington Indivisible (there is a closed Facebook group called Indivisible Ludington with little or no activity), then you have every right to peacefully rally for your cause.  

The unifying theme for this and other 'indivisible' women's march group seems to be caught in the headlines and in the various paragraphs of Ms. Reeber's essay.  A visceral dislike for anything related to President Donald Trump, including his inauguration, his human rights policies, his administration, the issues that led to his impeachment, and his powers.  The list continues to the end of her article, where she honestly notes that the origin of the marches were due to opposition to the election of Donald Trump and the marches continue to keep up the momentum of human rights.  

These groups all seem to operate with one thing in common on Facebook, they seem to be all private.  Not surprisingly, their rhetoric would likely be deemed as too radical for popular consumption.   

Reeber claims that Trump has a terrible human rights record, citing crippling of the EPA, the ACA, Planned Parenthood and low income assistance.  Government agencies and programs are actually antithetical to basic human rights, in practice.  He may lambaste and lampoon the corporate news that can't report fairly, but he doesn't use the powers of his office to refrain them from reporting what often turns out to be false and misleading news. 

Trump supports both the First and Second Amendments,resists globalism and the real human rights abuses he would have to tolerate, appoints judges that seem to be strict Constitutionalists ready to defend the inalienable human rights found in its amendments, and even stalwartly backs the most basic human right to life of the unborn.  These are different human rights than Ms. Reeber espouses, but arguably better.

When I read the original E-article, I sent a letter to Ludington City Manager Mitch Foster to find out whether this woman had came through city hall to get a park permit from him for this political rally.  Mr. Foster shot me back the following scanned application.  It seems Ms. Reeber applied on January 3rd, and Mitch explained what followed:

"Once received, we called the organizer to check on insurance (which we would require for a winter event due to potential slipping issues) at which point they stated it was all volunteer and not overarching group nor insurance. From there we let them know that we would not approve of the application but that if they decided to hold it there without the reservation or blocking of the street that they could."

I appreciate Mr. Foster's transparency in relating the details beyond the records to me.  Some of the LT readership may be wondering why I haven't recapped the Monday meeting just yet.  It's a combination that I had prepared 2/3 of the meeting into a tidy summary before I accidentally hit the wrong button and lost it all, and that I was a bit upset at this meeting about this political rally and how it got approved at the last minute without the scrutiny I received from the previous city manager for a park permit I tried for.  

I vented about this is my two minute comment at the end of the meeting (46:50 in) with links to historical depictions of the 2016 violation of my basic human rights of equal treatment by a government agency:

January 13th, 2020 Ludington City Council meeting from Mason County District Library on Vimeo.

XLFD:  "Ten days ago an Indivisible Ludington member submitted a special event application to the city manager to use Rotary Park for a gathering of over 50 people for two hours to coincide with the national Women's March taking place this Saturday. They were allowed to use the park w/o event insurance and w/o road closures, the approval saying that they were "not requesting use of the park, just going to go there."

I compare this with my own experience in trying to get a small portion of a park during the off-season back in 2016. I submitted my application to City Manager John Shay nearly 50 days before my scheduled event, the day after I notified him and this council at a meeting of my intentions. I did not intend to close any street, like this applicant did, and eschewed any city resources. Shay would not follow the city code and give me a decision, he said he would have to follow a process where this would first go to a committee, and then it would come before council. But even then, he claimed to have veto powers. This was not anywhere in the codified process.

This council allowed that unfair charade, just as it now allows this event and many years of West Shore Pride events to not come before committee or council. In 2016 the hate of city officials manifested itself in denying me an opportunity to hold my altruistic and information-providing event by allowing John Shay to corrupt the process with your full support. I hope someday a new and improved city council will apologize for this social inequity."  

For all of you marching in this event on Saturday, where were you back in 2016 when these definite human right abuses were happening on a regular basis to regular people in your hometown?  And why aren't you doing anything about it now that you are actually the privileged class?

[Freedom Seeker]

https://indivisible.org/about

Here's a website I found. Seems to be starting out of Washington D.C. and organizing groups anywhere across the nation it can to resist Trump. They have job openings in D.C.

[Freedom Seeker]

https://www.kqed.org/news/11501427/whos-funding-the-anti-trump-move...

Another interesting article.

[Freedom Seeker]

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-indivisible-project-i...

Founded by Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg in Washington D.C. and raised $7.5 million dollars. Not a small operation with a budget about the same as the City of Ludington.  

[Freedom Seeker]

https://www.indivisibleannualreport.org/

2017 Annual report with a $7.5 budget with support from Pelosi, Hillary, Harry Reid and other liberals.
They are like the grassroots liberal Tea Party.

[Willy]

Excellent article X and comments regarding this misguided attempt of the Ludington Indivisible group to spread ignorance. Thanks Freedom Seeker for the links you posted. Brenda Reeber is as ignorant as they come. It is said that ignorance is bliss but in the case of Reeber and her ilk this kind of ignorance is dangerous to us all. She is a tool like many of the ignorant, who fall in lock step to the oppressive, communists and leftist ideology. She and others like her have not taken the time or made an effort to find the truth about what has been going on for the last 3 years. Has she not noticed the criminal behavior of the Clintons, the FBI, CIA, IRS and other members of the deep state? If these people had their way we would be another Venezuela. From her ignorance she has come to the conclusion that Trump, who is a supporter of the Constitution, Civil rights, Free enterprise and who is also a lover of America, is as she states, a danger to America because of his beliefs and ideals but she has no negative opinions about how the deep state has tried to frame and overthrow a sitting President or how Hillary Clinton illegally corrupted the 2016 election including eliminating Burnie Sanders as a candidate by illegal and fraudulent actions. I can't understand what goes on inside these people's minds. Don't they understand they are supporting communist and fascists ideals which also includes their tyrannical methodology. 

[Du Wright]

It's totally ironic that this group that calls itself "indivisible" is at the core of "dividing" the nation, backed by Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. No respect for the office of the President of the United. States. Very sore losers at losing the election. No grace in defeat.

[XLFD]

They're probably sore about today's weather too, undoubtedly here as a result of climate change and Trump policies.  I went by the Rotary Park amphitheater around 1:03 PM and they had about a dozen or so massed underneath the protection of that structure.  It'll probably be hundreds by the account of the COLDNews when it reports on the event.  

[Du Wright]

Thanks for the update  X.  At less their dozen or so supporters shouldn't cause unlawful assembly without a permit!

[XLFD]

I checked back in again shortly after 2:00 PM and there was nobody around for the gathering that was supposed to last until 3:00 PM.  MCP and the COLDNews probably dropped by, took a few pics, interviewed the faithful, and when they left, there was no more reason to brave the elements.

A side note, back in 2016 it just so happened that the late September night of my planned event that never transpired was quite blustery, rainy and cold; Shay may have done me a favor without knowing it.

[Du Wright]

X, thanks for braving the elements in the cause of reporting! One never really knows how the hand of "fate" can turn one's plans.

[XLFD]

I wasn't that worried about the cold, the ice, or the snow, but I was a little worried about having to deal with a bunch of flakes and a bunch of snowflakes protesting in order to take away the basic human rights of everybody.

[Freedom Seeker]

Ha ha ha! Winter wonderland with all its glorious types of flakes! Not one the same.