To the editor:
By Vicki Disorda
My fellow Vermonters, it’s time for Republican and Independent candidates to band together against the Clean Heat Standard.
In speaking with Steve Berry, who is running as an independent for a seat in the United States Senate against Bernie Sanders, he revealed that he too is experiencing censorship by Vermont newspapers. He can’t get his events advertised or his articles published either, and Steve resides in Manchester! Apparently, Steve’s views are too closely aligned with Republican values. In particular, Steve is against the Clean Heat Standard.
This position, which is news mind you, appears to be too uncomfortable a topic for the supermajority of Vermont news media outlets to cover. What should be objective reporting appears more concerned with pleasing/supporting the political supermajority than actually covering the news and stories of the day, which would mean representing both sides of the issues fairly. So much for freedom of the press.
This begs the question, has the press in Vermont been bought out? Either with money or souls. Are personal narratives guiding the story selection process rather than fairness? It is difficult to say and much harder to prove. But the tolls are coming. We still get to cast our votes. (So far.) Or will the supermajority stop this too if things don’t swing their way?
The one thing that has become clear is that the press can hide the truth…simply by not publishing it.
How did our Vermont policy makers become some powerful that they now control the media? Is it fear? Money? Personal agendas?
Come this January the supermajority will silence everyone by voting to make heating oil, kerosene and propane unaffordable and force hard working Vermonters into poverty where they will have complete control. In the same way they are icing candidates with opposing views out of the democratic process, they will soon be icing Vermonters out of our homes.
If this isn’t a cruel authoritarian government, please tell me what is.
We opposed to the clean heat standard must band together to defeat this injustice.
Silencing the opposition is simply not good government and unamerican.
We need a united front against the Clean Heat Standard and our oppressors in the state of Vermont. Our freedom begins and ends with our freedom of speech. It’s time to stop the insanity now.
Winter is coming…