is this the santa they are trying to ban?
randystone
Posted on 11/28/2001 3:33:18 PM PST by MeekOneGOP
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 P.C. Town Bans Santa Claus Is something strange in the water in Montgomery County, Md.? This enclave of leftist thought police is notorious for censoring Indian nicknames of sports teams and trying to criminalize smoking in private homes. Now one of its towns has banned Santa Claus. Kensington Mayor Lynn Raufaste says that a mere two families "felt that they would be uncomfortable" with Santa being part of the annual Christmas tree lighting. So the town council gave St. Nick the heave-ho-ho-ho. These two families, who don't celebrate Christmas, say they feel excluded because - duh - Santa is synonymous with the holiday. In years past, Santa would arrive on a fire truck and light the tree with the mayor. But on Sunday, the mayor will light the tree herself, something she calls "a shame," WJLA-TV reported today. How come kooky, out-of-touch bureaucrats and politicians have no consideration for the majority who are "uncomfortable" with P.C. idiocy? We know there are plenty of good, sensible people in Montgomery County, because some of them have written to us about the Berserkley-like nonsense going on there. It is time for the silent majority to contact their elected officials and roar.
Thanks.
Henceforth Kensington, Maryland, shall be known as Grinchtown, Maryland.
What was it about Santa Claus that was objectionable to the two Grinchtown families? Were they against the stereotype of the jolly obese? Were they humiliated by the red suit Santa wears with black boots? Or by Santa's white hair and long white beard? Or by his belly that shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly? Or by laughter itself? Were they offended by the possibility of Santa "interacting" with their children and possibly (the horror) bring gifts to their children? Dare they admit that Santa Claus gained his jelly belly when Grinchtown proscribed smoking at home?
Who knows. Who knows.
Put up the signs on all roads leading to this one horsesenseless town: "Welcome to Grinchtown, Maryland - "All our Idiocy Is Belongs to Us."
Go for it! !
Put up the signs on all roads leading to this one horsesenseless town: "Welcome to Grinchtown, Maryland - "All our Idiocy Is Belongs to Us."Kind of makes ya wanna laff. . .and cry at the same time, huh?
I would do it if I was there (or even close).
Where do you get "San Nicklaas" ?? It's "Sinter Klaas" I believe, unless 1520 google matches are wrong. A much closer match to "Santa Claus," you'll note.
Christine O'Keeffe's Saint Nicholas page
He's clearly the origin of our Santa Claus via the Dutch in New York.
is this the santa they are trying to ban?
randystone
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of FreeRepublic:
"Dear Editor--I am 8 years old.
"Montgomery County community of Kensington and two families that live within the community say there wil be no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in FreeRepublic, it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth, will there be a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety-fifth Street
Virginia, Montgomery County community of Kensington is wrong. They have been affected by the fascism of a politically correct age. They do not feel comfortable except they offend. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All liberal minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours liberals is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there will be a Santa Claus. He will exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the state of Maryland if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in state and commuinity standards of politially correct offenses. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not have a Santa Claus! They might as well not have wedding ceremonies! They might get government agents to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did arrest Santa Claus, what would that acomplish? A community board bans Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there will be no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men, nor town boards can ban. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? In Maryland, of course you did, but that's no reason to arrest them. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the voting machine and see what makes the chads inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the politically correct liberal democrats that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus in Maryland! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever in FreeRepublic and Maryland. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
I got a real LOL out of: Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? In Maryland, of course you did, but that's no reason to arrest them.
Methinks this particular "Holiday Tree" comes with many splinters.
We've got one liberal mayor trying to outlaw smoking anywhere in public.
We've got a liberal county council trying to outlaw smoking in your own home.
We've got another liberal mayor molesting children.
And now we've got a liberal mayor banning Santa Claus.
This place is insane. Montgomery County, Maryland is the Berkeley of the East Coast. DO NOT MOVE HERE. It sucks!
Ron ought to know that most liberals are innately myopic. I'm sure this dumbass liberal wench hasn't thought that far in advance. Offended by Santa? Guess what? The majority will NOT be tyrannized by the "feelings" of a minority. As a result, that minority will now get exactly the opposite of what they wanted - tons of Santas.
People who are productive, work. People who aren't, become politicians.
Imagine the kids racing by the telly when this story hits the 6 o'clock news.
"Mommy? *sniff* Daddy? Why... w-w-why isn't Suh-S-Suh-Santa allowed in our town? anymore? *snuffle* What did we do?"
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