Today at the Editor’s glance: It’s the next-to-last day for early voting in the special election for Palm Coast mayor, culminating with Election Day on July 27. Early voting is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at three locations: the Supervisor of Elections Office at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast, and the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. If you are a registered voter in Palm Coast, whether Democratic, Independent, Republican or belonging to any minor party, you are eligible to vote for mayor. You may also choose any one of the three early voting locations. Early voting ends at 6 p.m. on July 24. More details at the Elections Supervisor’s site. For more background on the election and links to all the FlaglerLive candidate interviews and articles on the candidates, go here. On Free For All Fridays, host David Ayres welcomes Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly, who has requested 10 additional deputies from Palm Coast and 15 from the county in an unprecedented surge for policing, with a discussion on hate crimes. Also in the studio, Mike Tucker, the county’s new fire chief, and Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder on the ongoing fourth wave of covid, all starting a little after 9 a.m. with my commentary on the covid wave and the cohort that is causing it. The Flagler Humane Society has a dog adoption event today at PetSupermarket from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday at Petco from 9 to noon and at Tractor Supply from 9 to noon as well. The Scenic A1A Pride meeting normally scheduled for 9 a.m. this morning at the Hammock Community Center has been cancelled. The 29th Annual Southern Open chess championship begins this evening, running through Sunday at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, with numerous cash prizes and more than 300 participants expected.
Vaccinations: Appointments for the Pfizer-only clinic at the health department are preferred, but walk-ins will be accepted. Please call 386-437-7350 ext. 0 for scheduling or questions. Eighteen pharmacies in Flagler County offer COVID-19 vaccinations, and 12 of these offer Pfizer, which is approved for individuals ages 12 and over. The department is at 301 Dr. Carter Blvd.in Bunnell. For more information about COVID-19 vaccination and testing efforts, please visit https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/.
The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. You can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
For the full calendar, go here.
“To courageous, self reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Only an emergency can justify repression. Such must be the rule if authority is to be reconciled with freedom. Such, in my opinion, is the command of the Constitution.”
–Justice Louis Brandeis in a concurrence, joining Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Whitney v. California 274 U.S. 357 (1927).
The 2021 Special Election for Palm Coast Mayor
Ray W. says
Brandeis was still operating under the belief that our founding fathers were correct, that the liberalism inherent in a constitutional democracy (freedom, the rule of law, and individual human rights, including freedom of speech) would foster men and women of virtue. But Brandeis implicitly recognized that mob rule, the imminent “incidence of evil”, as he put it, was what our founding fathers greatly feared. This is why they inserted checks and balances into the Constitution, so that no one person would ever have unlimited power for an indeterminate period of time. Were our founding fathers correct? Or was Putin right when he claimed that liberalism is obsolete? Remember, only 25 or so countries have governments based on constitutional democracy. Ours was founded with the full knowledge that our constitutional democracy would be an experiment; it certainly was not the norm back then and it seems not to be the norm right now. There will always be those who are willing to ditch the experiment and latch onto a “great leader” whom they believe is the only person capable of saving the day. But what happens when the mob selects a leader who lacks virtue?
Pogo says
@Order in the court
Whitney v. California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_v._California
Brandenburg v. Ohio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.’
— Sextus Empiricus
erobot says
Brandeis is correct. Democracy is mob rule as is unfortunately being proved over and over again today. Globalist elites and gazillionaires use bribery and/or threats to get us proles to “shut up and deal.”
Take heart fellow Americans of all colors and creeds. There are more of us than them and we are beginning to understand that it’s up to us take back our country.
Pogo says
@Irony is dead
“Brandeis is correct…” Brandeis, Douglas, and Black: Meet Koch, Murdoch, Zuckerberg, and trump, et al. A humorless reactionary fuming about “…Globalist elites and gazillionaires use bribery and/or threats…” and waving a bloody shirt to rouse “us” to,”…take back our country.”
Wow. And all the while enthroned on the front steps of an edifice that makes Vatican City a homeless camp in a comparison of the resources of each. Only in AmeriKKKa, Inc.
https://www.google.com/search?d&q=ratio+of+lobbyists+to+legislators
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
— Harry S Truman