Editor: Let me get this straight; C-K council has enacted a policy guide regarding “interacting anywhere with anyone associated with the Municipality of Chatham-Kent,” and that includes emails, Facebook, X, etc., that could result in someone being charged with trespass?
Does that include letters to the editor of local news publications? Isn’t that why councillors/politicians are elected? To interact with the citizens they represent? So they have made it illegal to protest too much?
I suppose they would say only in the most egregious of situations, but who gets to decide that?
If the perpetrator wants to argue/protest their decision, there is a $200 fee to do so. Aha! A tax on protests!
We’re on the slippery slope here, friends.
I suspect there are some on council who want to expropriate the old town jail and use it to house “egregious protesters.” I say that with tongue-in-cheek, but don’t laugh too hard; this is how things rapidly got out of hand if you look at past history.
Joseph Goebbels would be so proud of our esteemed council.
Bryan Marino
Chatham
