Hate Slate Attacks Ad Nausea

The Hate Slate, a band of five remnants from the now-defunct local neo-nazi hate group, serves their daily dose of hate. It is truly nauseating. Here is their history and their latest targets.

The now-defunct local neo-nazi hate group was formulated as an unregistered PC (Political Committee, or more commonly known as a Political Action Committee) under the misnomer of celebrating Marco Island. It quickly became apparent that they were nothing more than puppets of certain puppeteers that sit at the city council and makeup certain big business organs on the island. Their purpose was nothing more than to denigrate and to personally attack anyone that disagreed with the city, or anyone that the city just did not like. In this offensive behavior, they truly celebrated.

Their kick-off rally was a classic. Caught on video, it is as if we were in 1939 Germany. They verbally denigrated a citizen for civilly and respectfully exercising his constitutional rights. The vociferously advocated the shooting of those that they didn’t agree with. They shouted hoary racial tropes at a person of a different culture. The city manager applauded approvingly. Later, they even went as far as to hire a “minister” to slander an activist.

With this instant infamy, their true purpose was exposed. So rather than do the intelligent and ethical thing, their puppeteers merely allowed the group to fade into their rightful oblivion.

But five denizens of this clan persist. These five make up the Hate Slate of candidates vying to perpetuate the present city governance’s practice of denigration, character assassinations, besmirching, civil rights violations, harassment, and outright despicable behavior.

With their sordid history to haunt them into perpetuity (or prison), they continue their intellectually and morally void diatribes in the local paper. Usually anonymously, or at times using their wives to feign popularity, their hate is unmistakable.

Their goal is simple, their purpose clear: No one can have opinions that are different that theirs. And if so, disparage the person, pillory that man or woman, deride the human being. They employ puerile acronyms to further their offending rants.

The Hate Slate are ethically-challenged people offering nothing in the public arena of problem solving. They have summarily refused to be part of moderated debates on any and all issues. They are the henchmen of the present city governance that do nothing more than attack those that dare speak out or act in any way that is in disagreement with the city. Just like their handlers in the present city governance, discussing the issues is not an option – vilify those that dare ask is the way.

Yet through their hate they are pathetic. They use a plethora of silly user names to their spiteful postings so as to make it appear that there are many comprising the Hate Slate. But in their zeal to attack and attack, it never occurred to them that technology shows us that it’s the same five using assorted posting names to promulgate their hate.

And they never give up. Some time ago they attempted to have Ed Bania, local political reporter for the local paper fired. Why? Because he was writing the truth – which of course they did not like. Thankfully, the reporter’s managers knew their obligation as the fourth branch of government and told the Hate Slate to take a hike.

But guess what? The same circus troupe is trying it again. Just this week the same Hate Slate contacted the paper again and accused the same reporter of ethical misconduct!

You really can’t make this stuff up. Can anyone believe that the Hate Slate, run and directed by the present city governance, is accusing anyone of ethical misconduct? Really? Such accusations by this crew have the same moral equivalence as Stalin accusing you of verbally reprimanding your dog.

But yes, it’s true. The ethical misconduct the Hate Slate is accusing the reporter of is that he socialized with some of the people that he covered in past stories. The fact that this reporter’s stories are fair and balanced, and always has all sides quoted and portrayed is inconsequential to the Hate Slate. We trust that this fact does not escape the reporter’s managers and that the allegation is viewed for what it really is: another false and meaningless accusation in a long line of character assassinations by the Hate Slate.

Fortunately it is just a matter of time before these throwbacks to the old south completely disappear. Once their handlers in the present city governance have been voted out of office, recalled, or indicted, then and only then will Marco Island be free of the divisiveness.