Gloucester, VA Officials Honor Animal Cruelty Criminal?

It's a sad day when you see something like this.  The chair of the Gloucester County, Virginia Board of Supervisor's, Louise Theberge, honoring a person whom we had just shown to be one of Gloucester County's biggest criminals in our view.  A person who was responsible for protecting animals in Gloucester but has been shown to actually be abusing animals in a very cruel and inhumane manner, according to Gloucester County Animal Control Ordinances, as shown in a previous post prior to this meeting, which we know the Board of Supervisors saw before this meeting, as we sent them the post link as well as a PDF version of the story.  The post based on Gloucester Animal Control's own laws and pictures showing how they do not follow their own codes.

  What next?  Why not just open all the jail cell doors and let all the other criminals out and give them all county government jobs with letters of recognition for their contributions to the community?  Actually, when you see this kind of behavior, you have to wonder if the criminals in the jails are criminals or just people who got sucker punched by a corrupt system?  This is what you see in a dictatorship.  Does Louise Theberge consider herself a dictator?  It looks that way.

Here is the PDF version of the story sent to a large list of Gloucester and other government officials a day before this meeting.

Gloucester Animal Control In Violation of Ordinances? from Chuck Thompson

The above PDF file is 9 pages long.  To read the story in full screen mode, just left click the icon at the very bottom right hand side of the SlideShare container.  To escape full screen mode, just hit your escape key on your keyboard.

But then again, these are the same people who allow their employees to run all over the county, in government vehicles, using those vehicles for personal use against county policy and all at taxpayer expenses.  And of course during this board meeting, you see how these same people could care less about raising your taxes save a few minor arguments.  Someone has to fund all of this nonsense.  Since it's our tax dollars, can anyone just call the county and get a ride to wherever they need to go?  A taxi service since that is what county employees are already doing anyway?  Seems fair to us if they are going to continue to abuse the system at every turn.

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Gloucester, VA Board of Supervisors Guilty of Suppression?

Suppression:  It takes many forms and has many acts.  The reason for the question?  It was discussed in one of our own meetings why some county Board of Supervisor meetings have open discussion of topics allowing the public to speak on said topics and what has been observed is the time limitations that the Board of Supervisors put on people for how long each person has to speak.

Some topics have open discussion from the public for 5 minutes per person while others we have seen have 10 minutes of time allocated to the public.  The questions we started to ask is what gives the Board of Supervisors the power to make and or change these times for public speaking?  So far we have seen no law that supports time limitations for how long any member of the public is allowed to address any topic before the Board of Supervisors.  All we have been able to ascertain is that the time limitations are only requests made by the Board of Supervisors to give enough people the chance to speak and nothing more.

Stopwatches should never be used against the public as we have seen Louise Theberge use time and time again.  What we have been able to determine is that Louise uses the stop watch and request as though it is a mandated law and that she is the dictator in charge of suppression over anyone who would dare speak out against any plans that either she or anyone else on the board wishes to push through.  What Louise and other Board members seem to fail to remember is that the time limitations can only be requested of the public.  Neither the Federal nor the State government imposes these time limitations on anyone, why should anyone allow county officials to get away with this?  It's an act of suppression and a tool of tyrants violating the public trust.



Here is one Gloucester citizen that went to speak before the Board of Supervisors and had the same 5 minutes to speak as everyone else.  He was not even accorded 4 minutes before he was so rudely interrupted by Louise Theberge causing him to lose his concentration.  That was very clear suppression.  Louise  Theberge did this again in August to Theresa Altemus during the School Bond hearing.  We have the video posted at the bottom of this site and you can see where Theresa Altemus is cut off by Louise Theberge from continuing on with her arguments in opposition to the Board's plans to pass the new school bonds.  Theresa Altemus was once a member of the Board of Supervisors and privy to a lot of information that most others would be very pressed to get.  That meant that Theresa was a threat to the present Board of Supervisors and probably why she was suppressed in her arguments against the school bonds.

We are asking the Board of Supervisors and Twitching Ted, (I'm not an attorney) Wilmot, county attorney, to show where in Virginia Code they have a right to limit, hence, suppress the people from speaking for longer periods other than the county's request for self limitations in order to give others a chance to speak.

  In other words, we want to see these abuses stopped once and for all.  County government is not a dictatorship by the few for the few.  County government is granted by the governed and is for the governed and at the consent of the governed.  Would be dictators need not apply.