Imitator
Oh this is too funny. The wingnuts rabid commenters from the News-Times are attempting to enter the blogosphere. Everyone, please welcome the last radical conservative in the area, DanburyDan to the scene.
I would place a link to his site but it seems he's little blog still has the training wheels on and I don't want my readers to go to his site and goof on how bad his site looks (like his pitiful use of hyperlinks, idiotic failure to use blockquotes, crappy photos he probably found via a google search, his use of a blogger template that's been used by about 1,000,000 other blogs, etc, etc, etc, etc).
Just another person who thinks he can read the News-Times in the morning and babble his jargon through his keyboard. Expect to see more of these sites as we approach 2007. Personally, I could care less, the more stuff about Danbury online the better it is for everyone BUT time will tell if these blogs have anything to say besides repeating the same garbage they spout on the News-Times boards (which is mostly radical conservative garbage). In a Democratic majority liberal city like Danbury, people like DanburyDan/BigDawgDan and the foaming at the mouth readers who pollute the News-Times board are of the minority opinion who usually meet at the Concordia Club for their anti-immigrant meetings. Again, I not wasting my time or giving him one bit of traffic by posting his link (his two way conversation with rydon is quite amusing).
And Dannyboy, if you claim is to give us the real truth about Danbury, how about starting with not lying about when you started your site? Last time I checked, it's still December 2006. Just sayin'
Nothing to see there, lets move along...
UPDATE: From DannyBoy: It [his blog] will not be a shill for the local Democratic Town Committee as the other blog is, nor will it be a cheerleader for the local Republican Party.
Links from DannyBoy's blogroll (Danbury and Political Links to soothe your soul...in this sea of blue.) include Danbury GOP, Michelle Malkin, Media Attache, and Real Clear Politics...all right winged wacked sites. Not that I don't have a problem with those sites because they individuals don't have a problem labeling themselves as conservative unlike a person who claims to be balanced YET claims a "left-winged" conspiracy and links exclusively to conservative sites.
You're not just a cheerleader, you're the captain of the squad...and oh, it's nice to see that you realized that it's STILL 2006. Now if you can only fixed the 20 other amateur problems with your site, maybe you could lose the training wheels label.
I'm not holding my breath...welcome anyway.
UPDATE 2: Okay guys, enough with the emails and comments bashing Dannyboy and his site. I don't need screenshots of his site before and after he fixed his errors and please don't even send me anymore stuff as I'm just going to block it. You guys are simply too funny with all the background info on this guy (wow, I didn't realize about his past posts on other sites and his rant on a post on CTConservative that I ripped apart earlier this year).
This isn't going to turn into a gutter match folks, save that type of talk for the News-Times board, it's childish and not needed. The internet is a vast place where everyone is entitled to their opinion and I've said my peace. There's simply too many issues in Danbury to cover so lets move on and keep the conversation going.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
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Danbury Area Coalition for the Rights of Immigrants v. U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security 3:06-cv-01992-RNC ( D. Conn. )
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