By Selwyn Duke

Few things get my dander up like the betraying of children’s trust.  Guilty of this is an attorney named Marsha Weinerman, executive director of the Cambridge, Ma., election commission, who has done the Boy Scouts dirty.   

In a tale of how no good deed goes unpunished, it all started when the Cambridge Boy Scouts decided to raise money to buy care packages for our troops.  Writes Boy Scout troop committee chairman Jamisean Patterson:

The Cambridge scouts earned some money in an unexpected fundraiser
and at first they thought about spending it on trips to Water Country,
Six Flags, white water rafting or skiing. But then the discussion
turned toward a service project — collecting donations for the troops
at the polling sites on Election Day. The adults were somewhat amazed
to the fact that these kids were choosing to spend the money on others
when they could very easily just go on a fun trip.

But on
Election Day, Marsha Weinerman, executive director of the Election
Commission, removed the boxes from all the polling stations because one
woman, a poll worker who does not deserve to be named, complained it
was a political statement.

Now, after the scouts got approval
from the Election Commission twice, made 25,000 flyers and distributed
them, e-mailed everyone they knew, putting up flyers in city buildings,
schools, libaries and local businesses and distributed boxes the day
before the election, the youths’ work — not to mention over $1,500 in
advertising and materials — were all for naught.

This is positively disgraceful.  I have to disagree with Mr. Patterson on one point, however: The malcontent who sparked this injustice deserves to be named, scorned, ostracized and, if possible, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.  Social pressure works, after all.  So, if anyone can tell me her identity, I promise you it will appear on my site. 

This action by the election commission tells the kids that one’s word means nothing.  I suppose that you could turn lemons into lemonade, however, and use it to teach a life lesson.  Namely, that sometimes you suffer when you do the right thing, but you should do it anyway.  Perhaps also the youths are learning the hard way about the people who are the enemies of Western civilization — and we all know who I’m talking about.

If you think that insanity such as this would have no defenders, think again.  On the O’Reilly Factor, Laura Ingraham (she was sitting in for O’Reilly) interviewed a man who unabashedly stated that the election commission did the right thing.  It was one Geoffrey Nathan, a defense lawyer out of Massachusetts.  And wait till you hear what this skunk said.

First, Nathan asserted that it was the Boy Scouts’ fault for not getting written permission from the commission.  That’s great, counselor, really classy.  Nailing kids with a technicality is definitely the mark of a real man.  But Nathan was just getting warmed up; it gets better.

When Nathan sought to explain why he supported the commission, he said that the Boy Scouts’ message of "support the troops" was political in nature.  Why?  Well, here is the pièce de résistance: Because to support the troops is to support the war.

To Laura Ingraham’s credit, her refutation was perfect.  She pointed out that the left has been telling us for ages that you can support the troops without supporting the war; "We support the troops," say they, "We just don’t support the war."  Well, it’s great that a leftist has finally come clean.

To spit in the faces of kids who are sacrificing for their fellow man is beneath contempt.  Marsha Weinerman and Geoffrey Nathan, you illustrate why someone once said, "A good start is 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea."

I think we should start this dumping in Boston harbor.

Important information:

If you’re able, please consider helping these scouts recoup the money they lost by making a donation.  The contact address is:

Troop 45, BSA

P.O. Box 381241

Cambridge, MA 02238

Also, let the un-American Cambridge Election Commission and Marsha Weinerman know what you think of them.

Cambridge Election Commission
Email to:Elections2@Cambridgema.gov

51 Inman Street
First Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 349-4361
Monday: 8:30 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Tuesday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m. – Noon