AT THE 2021 STERLING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 100-110 SHEEPLE SHOWED UP AND GAVE IT TO THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELSE IN TOWN “GOOD AND HARD”

Massachusetts citizenry, for the most part, have devolved from April 1775 Revolutionary spirit, the “shot heard ’round the world”, and Revolutionary War doggedness, to their current much-reduced status as government-official-following herd “sheeple,” an accurate term devised many years ago by, I believe, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr.

The New England Town Meeting form of government is often described as “the purest form of democracy.” However, this is what the late H. L. Mencken said about democracy: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Approximately 100-110 sheeple showed up on the evening of 14 June 2021 for Sterling’s Annual Town Meeting and gave it to themselves, and all 7700 other Sterling residents, “good and hard.” NOT ONE spending Warrant Article was defeated and BOTH pro-taxpayer Warrant Articles were defeated. Only about 150 voters showed up, total. Voter apathy and ignorance in Town are wide-spread and appalling, and those who fail to educate themselves and attend Sterling’s Annual Town Meetings have no one to blame but themselves for their ever-escalating property tax bills. SHAME ON THEM.

SIDEBAR ON THE “SECOND CONSENT AGENDA” APPARENT VOTE TALLY FRAUD

There were multiple witnesses to the so-called “SECOND CONSENT AGENDA” apparent vote tally fraud perpetrated during this year’s Annual Town Meeting. I was one. I have contacted the appropriate Massachusetts State officials about it and have prepared, signed, and submitted a detailed Affidavit, executed under the pains and penalties of perjury, recounting the pertinent statements and events. Stay tuned. That apparent vote tally fraud, and the fact that the reprobates on the Select Board, Planning Board, and Z.B.A. combined to pack the bogus and abusive so-called “SECOND CONSENT AGENDA” with complex and technical Protective (Zoning) By-Law Amendments, confirms what many of us had already figured out–Sterling Town Government is being run as a Mini-Banana Republic.

J.G.