Burlington is persecuting a good man
you can help
On this week’s Disaffected, we interviewed my friend Bill Oetjen. He’s a retired schoolteacher facing civil fines from our woke city government for speaking out against the trans medical abuse of children and the destruction of women’s private spaces.
Oh, the city claims they’re merely ticketing Bill for “property defacement” because he put stickers on lamp posts. What did those stickers say?
”No one was born into the wrong body”
”Lifelong medical dependency is not kindness”
Never mind that thousands of other people put up stickers on Burlington lamp posts every day and are never, ever cited for “property defacement.” Never mind that some of those stickers explicitly call for the death of women, feminists, and “TERFs”. That’s just good community, see, but what Bill says is “hate speech.”
Bill has been given $1,200 in fines, and he’s not going to pay them. But he needs help with legal costs to fight this viewpoint discrimination. Burlington is actively hostile to the Constitution and American principles of free speech. We have very little financial or moral support from anyone locally.
Disaffected kicked in $500. Can you spare a few bucks?
If you want to help, we have a fundraiser for Bill here. It’s at GiveSendGo.
Here’s a cut-and-paste link to the fundraiser:
https://www.givesendgo.com/GB78J
If you want to know more before you consider donating, here’s our show’s coverage of the problem. Please do click through to that Twitter link—it takes you right to the relevant segment of our show, and it plays right on Twitter at that link.
https://twitter.com/DisaffectedPod/status/1717203712467226979
A great way to raise money would be to print and sell a bunch of those stickers. I’m sure many people, myself included, would like to have some to put up around our own cities.
Placing bills in public spaces has been been an American tradition since before were a nation. Opposition from our overlords is another equally long tradition. Resistance is called for, though the cost of the fight must be understood. Particularly sad the overlords have come to such power in the once free New England states. The voters apparently wish to be led.