I was lucky. If I began my turn 1/15th of a second earlier I would have been in a hospital or worse. The accident was my fault but construction equipment blocked the usual line of sight. The construction equipment was my fault too. It’s part of my legacy.

We moved back to hometown Coatesville partly by accident, partly because it made economic sense but mostly because most all of our family members still lived nearby. 

I was enthused by the flurry of economic activity proposing a revival of the City of Coatesville. A revival that promised to return Coatesville to the economic and social place it had in Western Chester County in the 1950s & 1960s. The “back in the day” Coatesville we grew up in.

My interest in municipal government came in a meandering way. Dave Baker, Tom Lennon and I had just began fishing at a fly fishing only section of Bushkill Creek (its was later closed to fishing by the property owner). I noticed my long johns were on backwards. That was not a problem since I wouldn’t need a stream side bathroom, we were close to highways.

After just 5 minutes of fishing an 8 inch diameter pipe began spewing brown sludgy water into the nearly crystal clear stream and we folded up our fly rods. That moment began my interest in municipal government. 

In Pennsylvania stormwater regulations are enforced at the local level by local municipal government regulations. 

In Pennsylvania nearly all land use is under the jurisdiction of municipal government. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and EPA stormwater regulations are enforced by our 2,500 + local government entities. 

If I wanted to stop nonpoint water contamination like that 8 inch diameter pipe spewing brown sludgy material into an otherwise pristine creek I needed to get into municipal government. 

I learned about zoning as a planning commissioner in Lower Frederick Township Montgomery County, PA. 

But I also learned about the drug business, marijuana growing and how most of the elected officials in Northwestern MontCo got high on hemp after work. 

Other planning commission members cautioned me in the dangers of  looking into the local KKK/Skinhead cross lightings along the Perkiomen Creek. 

That the KKK/Skinheads were powerful enough to be a threat to local municipal officials only got my interest. I began investigating and never stopped. 

All of that led to the construction equipment that blocked my line of sight so I couldn’t see a car coming. That construction might never of happened if we didn’t move back to Coatesville where I had a chance to become a planning commissioner and help write the zoning overlays used to permit construction of the 6 story apartment/condo/retail building the construction equipment was there for. 

I was not only a planning commissioner. I combined my knowledge of the drug business, KKK, Skinheads, JBS society, the Philly Mafia, stormwater regulations and knowing 100s of Black & White people in and around the City of Coatesville to stay one step ahead of people who wanted to stop developments like the one blocking my line of sight. 

I was fortunate to work with Tom Hogan since back when he was a Federal prosecutor. I was able to inform Governor Rendell about the shenanigans at Coatesville City Hall so that later when the fires began Ed Rendell knew what was happening here and ordered Harry Walker to call in the PA fire commissioner & ATF to investigate. 

Even if I had begun my turn 1/15 of a second earlier and wound up in a body bag, I would be a lucky man. I have a legacy that will live on when I am gone. 

Electronic Billboards City of Coatesville Catalyst Experiential

UPDATE: IT'S CATALYST EXPERIENTIAL NOT CATALYST EXPERIMENTAL. 

Also, you might say Coatesville residents can go to city council meetings & learn what's happening. Except that most people are afraid to go to Coatesville City Council meetings. There's a history of intimidating residents not going along with John Birch Society efforts. And a historical presence of drug gang members in the meeting room.

SEE:

Several years ago in the Lobby of the City of Coatesville City Hall I was surrounded by about 10 people screaming "Communist" at me. I had dared to say the City Council meetings were a place where individuals could get together as a community. I had no idea I was part of a Communist plot called Agenda 21. 

I think the story is the Coatesville City Council operates in an opaque bubble. Opaque to the public, because there is no press or media present. Now and then something spectacular happens and that opaque bubble is pierced.

“Catalyst Experiential plans to build three electronic bill boards measuring 15 by 40 feet, 10 by 30 feet and 13 by 30 feet, and had planned to include steel tridents fabricated in Coatesville that supported the World Trade Center. An outdoor amphitheater and veteran’s memorial are also envisioned. 

Mike Trio, city manager, and city council members, said that the tridents were never destined to be used for the sign project...” 

“Scott Huston, president of the museum board of directors, said he was “surprised” when the forks were included as part of the commercial plan. 

“It’s a major attraction…at Coatesville’s front door whether the amphitheater goes here or not. 

“When people enter Coatesville, it’s one of the first things they see.” 

Jim Ziegler, executive director of the museum, said the local steel work is something everyone is proud of. 

“A 40-foot billboard will obscure the view of the historic district—a gem in Coatesville,” he said. “We just want to be part of the community and we want the community to be a part of us.” 

MORE AT
Electronic billboards a 'done deal' in Coatesville
Bill Rettew brettew@dailylocal.com 

"CATALYST AGENCY LIMITED was incorporated on 29-MAR-2016 as a Private company limited by shares registered in Hong Kong. 

The date of annual examination for this private company limited is between Mar 29 and May 09 upon the anniversary of incorporation. The company's status is listed as "Live" now.  Catalyst Agency Limited has been operating for 3 years 3 months, and 29 days.  

Company Name: CATALYST AGENCY LIMITED CR No. 2353366 Date of Incorporation: 29-MAR-2016 Company Type: Private company limited by shares Company Status: Live Date of Annual Examination: Mar 29 - May 09 Remarks: - Register of Charges: Unavailable Name History: 29-MAR-2016 CATALYST AGENCY LIMITED updated on 2019-05-18 "

Senator Andy Dinniman 

Some clarification on this story:

1. The ultimate decision on the Coatesville digital billboard/amphitheater project is up to city council. I and state Rep. Dan Williams called this week’s meeting to inform and hear from the public because it seemed like there were a lot of unanswered questions and not many people (besides those on council) knew exactly what was planned for this significant piece of public land. 

2. While council members say the project is a “done deal,” there are additional approvals needed, including those regarding design elements and PennDOT permitting. 

3. Not mentioned in this article were comments from David DePetris of DEPG, the developer working on the Coatesville Gateway Project on the corner directly adjacent from the proposed digital billboards. He asked council to take another look at the digital billboards and expressed reservations about them as the current development plan calls for a hotel and two restaurants with outdoor dining immediately across the street. 

The meeting was an opportunity for people to learn more about the project and express their views. In addition, city officials backed away from initial plans to try to include the World Trade Center steel “trees” as part of the digital billboard/amphitheater project. They also committed seeking public input on the design aspects. While I understand council’s desire to realize revenue from the project ($44,000/ year according to a lease agreement), I do hope they will seek public input, involvement, and engagement going forward. 

Finally, I have concerns about three large digital billboards essentially serving as the welcome mat to the City of Coatesville, as well as their potential to obscure everything planned for the Lukens Historic District (including the National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum). I have also seen and experienced how these digital billboard companies operate some municipalities and the impacts they’ve had on residents and local communities. 

Digital billboards do have their place in settings like Times Square or Las Vegas. In our area, they tend to be targeting motorists and drivers on heavily traveled thoroughfares and intersections. I have doubts that those proposed for Coatesville will target or draw visitors and foot traffic. 

It seems to me that these digital billboards are something you pass on the way to a destination. I think Coatesville and its revitalization should be THE destination.

TESTIMONIALS CATALYST EXPERIANTIAL : https://www.catalystex.com/testimonials/

Prince Andrew’s teen sex is the appetizer Epstein-Mogilevich-Maxwell AND Trump is the main course.

Teen sex with Prince Andrew will garner the most headlines but the Jeffery Epstein-Semion Mogilevich-Chislane Maxwell-Member of Parliament Robert Maxwell & business partner of Semion Mogilevich AND Donald Trump are the meat of the story. 

This could put the dagger in Trump’s heart.

Epstein appears before a magistrate in New York on Monday. If Epstein is granted bail he will disappear. 

The links should open on the PDF below:

   


My original post misstated teen sex with Prince Edward. I corrected it to teen sex with Prince Andrew:  

"A few things about this stuck out to criminal defense lawyer and Law&Crime trial analyst Gene Rossi. First and foremost, it’s “extremely bad news” for Epstein that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is involved. 

“They don’t play nice,” Rossi told Law&Crime in a phone interview Sunday. 

Also, it means that other charges are possible. It could mean money laundering, public corruption, or tax-related charges. 

'Who knows?” he said. “The sky’s the limit.” 

MORE AT: 

Why It’s Really Bad for Epstein He’s Being Prosecuted by SDNY’s Public

A WOMAN CAN BE PRESIDENT! HILLARY CLINTON LOST because her election CAMPAIGN was run as A MACHINE DEVOID OF HUMAN COMPASSION

I worked with the Kerry campaign. Their paid staff were compassionate, caring and considerate of others. People here routinely walk between moving cars. I noticed that Benari Poulten @BenariLee  was extremely careful driving through Coatesville’s streets.

The Obama for President paid staff were amazing. They had human compassion I hadn’t seen since I was involved with Father John McNamee in Philadelphia. In particular Omar Woodard @OmarWoodard was an outstanding campaign manager and outstanding human being. 

Obama 08 was an exciting time in Coatesville, PA

Clinton’s paid staff were robots working on laptops. 

A staff member looked up when I asked if they noticed the Coatesville PD across the street and said he did. I told them that 6 hours before they opened that morning there was a double murder. He giggled and went back to his laptop. 

We are accustomed to gunfire in Coatesville  Most people know to get down. I was warning the Clinton people that there would probably be retaliation for the double murder. 

I never expected indifference to the violent deaths across the street and the possibility of more gunfire. 

There was retaliation and more gunfire just down 6th Avenue. 

SEE:

Police tape was across the street from Clinton Campaign Headquarters in 2016 at Coatesville, PA. I came in early, told them be careful there was a double murder across the street & might be retaliation. They looked up, giggled & went back to their laptops. 

"In a news release, the Coatesville Police Department said detectives are investigating whether Wylie's shooting death is related to a double homicide at about 3:20 a.m. Wednesday in a rear apartment on the 500 block of East Lincoln Highway. The apartment is about a block away from the alley where Wylie was found.

In Wednesday's double homicide, police have said that David Wayne Fitzsimmons, 56, of Coatesville, and William Chance, 46, of Philadelphia or Coatesville, died after being shot."

MORE AT:

Man, 50, shot dead in Coatesville; police see possible link to earlier double killing

by Julie Shaw, Posted: September 29, 2016

Republicans stage a statewide version of the long lines of Lincoln U students at Lower Oxford Polls in 2008. GOP VOTER SUPPRESSION BILL on Governor Wolf’s desk

Republicans are trying to create long lines to deny Democrats in large communities their right to vote. 

Republican Chester County Commissioner Terence Farrell was instrumental in stopping black Lincoln University students and professors and stopping only black people from voting in the 2008 Presidential Elections at Lower Oxford East.

"The state of Pennsylvania is on the cusp of approving a major piece of voter suppression legislation ahead of the 2020 election, despite a Democrat serving as governor. 

The bill, passed largely along party lines with nearly universal opposition from Democrats in the state legislature, is on the governor’s desk. If signed into law, it would ban what’s known as “straight-ticket” voting, which allows a voter to cast a ballot for all Democrats, or all Republicans, at once. Because precincts in Democratic areas of the state, particularly in Philadelphia, are heavily under-resourced relative to the size of the voting population, banning straight-ticket voting would mean much longer lines at the polls, as each voter needs more time behind the curtain. Studies have shown the longer lines depress Democrat turnout significantly.

The ban is a longtime goal of Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel. In late 2015, Republicans succeeded in banning straight-ticket voting in Michigan, spurring litigation that lasted for a couple of years."

MORE AT:

Democratic Governor Considering Signing Major GOP Voter Suppression Legislation in Pennsylvania

Akela Lacy

July 2 2019, 4:00 a.m.

"15. Defendants Carol Aichele, Terence Farrell and Kathi Cozzone are elected members of the Chester County Board of Commissioners and the Chester County Board of Elections. All three are sued in their official capacities; Defendants Aichele and Farrell are sued in their individual capacities as well."

In predominantly white Chester County, Pa., Lower Oxford East Township contains the largest concentration of African-American voters, largely because of Lincoln University, one of the oldest historically African-American universities in the country.  

The township made national news following the 2008 presidential election, when some voters were forced to wait literally all day in pouring rain in order to vote. Many voters had to leave without casting their votes, disenfranchised by inadequate polling facilities.  

Despite numerous warnings before the election that the cramped polling place would cause problems, the County Board of Elections had refused to change the location of the polling place – a tiny community center that could accommodate only two lines of voters, a small number of privacy booths, and a single ballot scanner.  And even after the 2008 fiasco, the Board of Elections rejected a petition to move the polling place to the campus of Lincoln University, where it had previously been located for years."

- See more at:

PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA Voting Access in Chester County

Realignment of Lincoln Highway and 1st Avenue in Coatesville PA begins!

http://www.coatesville.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Route-30-82-Construction-Phases.pdf

Nobody talks about the first Jewish president. If Berne Sanders becomes president it would be the final act in a play that began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt deciding to run for president.

In the 1950s and 60s Coatesville, PA sometimes called “The end of the Main Line”, the old money estate owning and fox hunting Main Line, a marriage between a Catholic and Protestant was a “mixed marriage” almost as forbidden as a black and white mixed marriage or a Jewish and Christian mixed marriage.

In 1959 most of the discussion about Kennedy vs. Nixon was his Catholicism in our heavily immigrant and black populated Coatesville, PA. 

You had the majority white Catholics on the pro-Kennedy side and a smaller Protestant and sometimes KKK on the pro-Nixon side. 

The first Catholic President was the most talked about part of the Nixon vs. Kennedy race.

In what white people call “back in the day” the United States was a Socialist Democracy experiencing economic boom times. Parents, white parents and even some black parents took for granted that their sons and daughters would be better off than they were. 

But if you called our Socialist Democracy a Socialist Democracy you risked being called “Communist” by the right wing of the Republican Party. I listened to black leaders begin with "I'm not a Communist" when talking about things as mundane as street cleaning.

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Only 20 years before JFK ran for president politicians here were siding with Mussolini and Hitler. 

German American Bund
 rally poster at
Madison Square Garden,
February 20, 1939

Many Republicans in pre-World War II Times liked fascism. They hid their views after Germany declared war. 

Now pro-fascist Republicans are at the top of the Republican Party.

Some Republicans, among them Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were negotiating with Nazis after Germany declared war working out a non-aggression pact that would give Hitler England in return for not attacking the United States. 

Charles Lindbergh later came around and helped the United States war effort. His close association with and knowledge of the German aircraft industry helped our war effort. 

American GIs were startled when they saw Nazi Army Ford troop transit trucks. Henry Ford kept profiting from his German Ford division going 8 months after Germany declared war on the United States. 

SEE:
Ford and the Führer
by Ken Silverstein

The Nation magazine, January 24, 2000

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All fascists campaign on racial purity. 

In Trump's case it's keeping the white race pure. Narendra Modi campaigns on keeping India Hindu. 

"The country is changing — it's getting browner, as population growth slows among whites. Non-whites now make up a majority of kindergartners; by the next presidential election, the Census Bureau predicts they will be a majority of all children; and by 2044, no one racial group will be a majority of the country." 

From: 

How The Browning Of America Is Upending Both Political Parties 

Domenico Montanaro

Population growth has slowed. That's what is behind the anti-abortion and anti-birth control politics of the Republican Christofascists.

About 1/3 of Americans are terrified that white people will not continue to dominate U.S. society, politics & commerce. The other 2/3 don't care. Trump makes the fearful more terrified guaranteeing they will support anything he does. 

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FROM: 
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them 
by Jason Stanley

September 11,1941, Charles Lindbergh charged that British, Jews & the Roosevelt Administration are leading the America into War:

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After World War II the fascists among the Republicans mostly stayed in the wings. They failed when Barry Goldwater was defeated by Johnson. 

Nixon did not favor fascism. But was racist and laid the foundation of mass incarceration of Black men. 

Then came Ronald Reagan a B actor who could be manipulated by the fascists among Republicans as long as something was in it for him. 

When a Black man ran for president and became president fascists quickly rose to the top of the Republican Party. 

The Republican Party joins the fascist revival with Marnie LePen in France, Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland, Viktor Orban in Hungry, Sebastian Kurz in Austria, Matteo Salvini in Italy and Narendra Modi’s Bharatya Janata Party, a Hindu Nazi party, in India.

Fascism and Nazis are making a big comeback. A Jewish U.S. president could counter the Nazi revival.

Fascism and the far right in Europe: country by country guide, 2019

By Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin | 19 May 2019

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Also see: 

“That this tough-guy, get-mad-and-get-even approach has gained him an increasingly large and enthusiastic following has probably surprised Trump as much as anyone else.  

Trump himself is simply and quite literally an egomaniac. But the phenomenon he has created and now leads has become something larger than him, and something far more dangerous. 

Republican politicians marvel at how he has “tapped into” a hitherto unknown swath of the voting public. But what he has tapped into is what the founders most feared when they established the democratic republic: the popular passions unleashed, the “mobocracy.” Conservatives have been warning for decades about government suffocating liberty. But here is the other threat to liberty that Alexis de Tocqueville and the ancient philosophers warned about: that the people in a democracy, excited, angry and unconstrained, might run roughshod over even the institutions created to preserve their freedoms. As Alexander Hamilton watched the French Revolution unfold, he feared in America what he saw play out in France — that the unleashing of popular passions would lead not to greater democracy but to the arrival of a tyrant, riding to power on the shoulders of the people. 

This phenomenon has arisen in other democratic and quasi-democratic countries over the past century, and it has generally been called “fascism.” Fascist movements, too, had no coherent ideology, no clear set of prescriptions for what ailed society. “National socialism” was a bundle of contradictions, united chiefly by what, and who, it opposed; fascism in Italy was anti-liberal, anti-democratic, anti-Marxist, anti-capitalist and anti-clerical. Successful fascism was not about policies but about the strongman, the leader (Il Duce, Der Führer), in whom could be entrusted the fate of the nation. Whatever the problem, he could fix it. Whatever the threat, internal or external, he could vanquish it, and it was unnecessary for him to explain how. Today, there is Putinism, which also has nothing to do with belief or policy but is about the tough man who single-handedly defends his people against all threats, foreign and domestic. 

To understand how such movements take over a democracy, one only has to watch the Republican Party today. These movements play on all the fears, vanities, ambitions and insecurities that make up the human psyche. In democracies, at least for politicians, the only thing that matters is what the voters say they want — vox populi vox Dei. A mass political movement is thus a powerful and, to those who would oppose it, frightening weapon. When controlled and directed by a single leader, it can be aimed at whomever the leader chooses. If someone criticizes or opposes the leader, it doesn’t matter how popular or admired that person has been. He might be a famous war hero, but if the leader derides and ridicules his heroism, the followers laugh and jeer. He might be the highest-ranking elected guardian of the party’s most cherished principles. But if he hesitates to support the leader, he faces political death."

FROM: 

This is how fascism comes to America

Robert Kagan