This is the second secured message board. The previous secured
message board was suspended by the
Pennsylvania State Police on October 7, 2005 after Sara Hailstone
and her father complained that her name was mentioned. The PSP was immediately sued for violating our constitutional
rights to free speech and association.
THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE ARE HAVING DISCUSSIONS
ON SCRANTON POLITICS. YOU CAN GET THE TRUTH HERE, UNLIKE WHAT YOU READ IN THE SCRANTON TIMES TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER.
THIS MESSAGE BOARD IS FOR CREATING AND GENERATING TRAFFIC FOR THE BENEFIT OF GIVING YOU INFORMATION, AND OBTAINING INFORMATION,
ABOUT OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
This is a secured
Interactive Message Board. One intent and purpose of this secured Message Board is to expose,
investigate and discuss any possible corruption, deceit, lies, theft, fraud or other misconduct of
the current city and county administrations, to include any and all questionable conduct of any and all employees of
any capacity, or the misconduct of any contractors, vendors, suppliers or professional services who do work for our government
and are paid from any government revenue or funds. Another purpose of this message board is to advocate
and promote the eradication of corruption in any way or means available, to include taking legal actions against
corruption, or to support, to any degree, a candidate or candidates believed to be more capable of serving the best interests
of the people. The promotion or advocacy of any candidate within this message board is within the sole discretion of
the Administrator of this forum. Posts that support or advocate for any specific candidate are subject to
the Administrator's discretion in terms of allowing the posts to stand or be deleted, without explanation of either.
The secured message board will also provide
an opportunity to share political related thoughts and opinions involving the numerous political elements
of city government. You may participate by posting politically related messages and opinions, responding to messages of others,
or by simply reviewing the opinions and factual statements of participating posters. There is no fee for participaton or viewing.
Freedom of speech is free.
As a participant, you are respectfully requested
to keep your content politically related to the intent and purpose of this Message Board. It is not the purpose or intent
of this Message Board to personally attack other posters, so stay focused on the messages and not focused on abusing the any
of the messengers. That abuse can result in being banned from participation. As the Administrator, I will not dictate
content any further than those requests. The secure Message Board provides the Administrator with the option of deleting messages
that are offensive and/or nothing more than a personal attack on other posters. In addition, the Administrator has the option
of banning posters from this Message Board who demonstrate departure from the purpose of the board or the abuse of other posters
or non-political persons.
Where political officials and/or candidates,
city employees, contractors, vendors and professional services are concerned, their moral and ethical character is subject
to opinion as relates to their job performance and conduct. Their job performance may be influenced by their personal life. I
simply ask that you phrase your scrutiny using words and terms that would address their conduct as it relates to
your view of any proposed or alleged immoral or unethical conduct. We are all adults. I am not going to even try to take your
preferred adjectives and adverbs away from you regarding your views and opinions, however, profanity or sexually oriented
expressions should be excluded from posts. If they appear, they may be deleted. If they are repeated, the poster may
be banned. I don't want to ban anyone. Please try to use good judgment and fairness when expressing personal feelings
about any city employees or people who deal with the city.
You can post on this message board by clicking the
links at the top of this page, which takes you to the message board. Registration allows you to select a ficticious
user name. I request that you select a non-offensive user name. Offensive user names will be deleted, then banned if
repeated. However, a ban will attach to the computer's IP address, and also the user name.
NOTICE TO ALL POSTERS
As a poster here, you can be identified through your IP address.
Youwill not be anonymous. Therefore, you can be held responsible for the content of your posting(s). You have a Constitutional right to Free Speech provided
by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Click here to read it. Vulgarity, threats, fighting words or inciting words are not always "protected
speech". However, the truth is very often privileged and protected speech. Factual things that you may state on
this board about anyone can be vulnerable to defamation (libel) and other legal actions if they
are not true. If you're going to call someone a corrupt thief, for example, you should provide the proof that it is true,
or you risk legal consequences. Candidates and city employees and their past or present conduct, which conduct may shed
light upon their ability to conduct themselves morally, ethically or professionally as public officials or employees are
fair game for discussion in my view. We pay them tax dollars, so they should be accountable to us.
Please use minimal wording in the New Topic
area to describe the content of your post. Enjoy your freedom of speech. It's all we have to defend ourselves
and fight for what belongs to us. It's all we have to hold all public employees accountable.
One last thing, the identities of participants
using ficticious names is protected. It is confidential information. If you know, or think you know, who is posting
under a particular ficticious name, you are not allowed to post it, or even make a suggestion. You don't have to like
everything written here, but you do have to respect it.
Joe Pilchesky
BOARD NAVIGATION TIPS
TO POST:
Click on the link below to get into the message board.
You must now register: Click on the " registration" link at the top right corner. An information window will appear.
Fill in the information on the "Registration Page". Where
an asterisk appears, you must provide the information. Scroll to the bottom of the page and submit the completed
registration. Please note that you may not register under a real name unless proof is submitted after you've registered
that you are that person. Or, if a real name has already been used in a topic or post, you may not use any part of that
real name to register and add to the thread of that post, as to appear that you are that person, unless you can prove to the
satisfaction of the Administrator, upon his demand, that you are that person.
There is also a request for profile information, which
is optional.
The Administrator must approve your registration
before you can proceed. You will receive a confirmation email. Click on that link to activate your account.
Once approved, which should only take a few hours, you will be
able to log-in to the board, and you will see the various categories for discussion. You're now in the message board. Click on the category you're interested in.
You will see a listing of posts with topics that were
posted by other posters, just click on the topic of your interest.
To respond: Hit the "Reply" button within the post or
the "Reply" button at the top of the message box.
To post your own topic and message: Hit "new topic".
The text window will come up. Enter your topic and enter your text, the "submit" button is at the bottom.
The Main Page area shows 60 postings per page
at a time, starting with the most recent postings. At the bottom of the page is a small window where you can click
to the next page, or go back as far as you please into the posting history. The higher the page number, the further you go
into the posting history.
To get back to the Main Page, (or the 60 most recent
posts) at any time, just click on the category name link, or the "Scranton Political Times Index" link. That gets
you out of wherever you may be within the posts, and resituates you on the Main Page.
TO ONLY READ THE POSTS:
Click on the link below to get to the message board.
To view the poster's offerings, just hit any category you
want to read.
Then click on the topic you'd like to review. That's
it.
The information expressed on this site represent those of the authors who express these constitutionally
protected thoughts in this forum with the express intent of fostering discussion.
