Re: Sharon Bulova single handedly ruled ICE cannot speak in Fairfax about MS-13
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Date: April 05, 2018 11:15AM
Whynot Wrote:
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> Facts and Fake Facts Agree Wrote:
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> > Rush, Chris and Larry are full of BS.
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> > Both Republican Supervisor Cook and ICE
> officials
> > confirm that ICE was given the opportunity to
> > speak. ICE chose not to. ICE was pissed
> because
> > Fairfax had declined to allow a particular
> Trump
> > appointee at ICE to speak, and ICE said if she
> > can't speak, then nobody would.
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> They refused to allow a person to speak in a
> public forum where others were allowed to speak?
> What was the reason?
It would help to know this. However refusing to allow specific individuals the opportunity to speak, especially when those individuals are paid or are from outside the community is nothing new.
In the past groups I work with have had requests to be put on the speakers list be denied. We were allowed to attend and to discuss our concerns with other attendees on an individual basis. People who agreed with our position were put on the list and allowed to speak, so our positions were presented. even political neophytes know only so many people are going to be allowed to speak, and each speaker will only be allotted a certain amount of time. If you don't get on the speaker's list, you find the people who did, and you work with them to get your views presented.
The County didn't prevent ICE from participating. ICE chose not to. Maybe they lacked even the basic knowledge of local politics to contemplate that their preferred speaker would not be put on the list. Maybe they thought they could score more points by pouting like 5 year olds rather than going to plan B. Either way this is on ICE.