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March 2, 1998
SAN BRUNO CITY CITY COUNCILMAN PALLAS
"OUR FOREFATHERS SAID WHEN THE 4th of JULY COMES, GET YOUR GUNS OUT, SHOOT THEM....."
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It is THE SAN BRUNO BEACON'S opinion that Councilman Pallas is the San Bruno City Council's master of "irritainment" (annoying entertainment that attracts a viewers attention). We think that some of the statements Councilman Pallas makes have a very high "bozon" (a "bozon" is a unit of stupidity) count. At the February 9, 1998 City Council meeting, when a large group of homeowners whose homes had been lost or damaged by mudslides were present, Pallas, who loves to grandstand in front of a live audience, started getting on his "high horse", demanding to know what the costs of the damage were and what the City could have done to prevent the mudslides. Pallas' demagoguery was quickly shut down when one of the homeowners from the affected area accused Pallas of grandstanding and stated that Pallas had never said or done anything about the mudslide danger. The usually verbose Mr. Pallas became uncharacteristically silent after being rebuked for his hypocrisy by one of the very same people he had targeted with his demagoguery. At the next (February 23, 1998) City Council meeting Pallas changed his tune and instead of demanding to know what the City could have done to prevent the mudslides and resulting damage Pallas now said that, "...we cannot put blame on anyone now or look at what we should have done. Let us not put a blame on anyone let's look and see what we can do today and look into the future." Pallas continued, "The only person I guess we can blame is the Almighty, he's causing all of this and we are just little people on this earth." Do you think that Pallas changed his mind about demanding to know what the City could have done to prevent the mudslides and instead started blaming the "Almighty" when he found out that he and the other councilmembers could be named in the homeowner's lawsuits and be held personally liable for this disaster? Perhaps Mr. Pallas now feels that it is better not to put the blame on anyone except the "Almighty" since he may be a potential defendant in these lawsuits. At the February 23, 1998 Council meeting Pallas provided viewers with a very large dose of his trademark irritainment when he started defending the City's dangerous, liability laden policy of allowing the sale of fireworks in San Bruno. Councilman Pallas was babbling on about how profitable the sale of fireworks are and how if it wasn't for the Fourth of July the City wouldn't be selling fireworks when he said: "Our forefathers said when the 4th of July comes get your guns out, shoot them...." What would provoke an elected official (i.e., Councilman Pallas) to make such a dangerously stupid statement knowing that people throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been killed and injured by people firing pistols and rifles into the air on the Fourth of July and New Years Eve. In Redwood City the problem of people firing pistols and rifles into the air got so bad that the Redwood City Police Department purchased a high tech system for tracing the discharge of weapons. Pallas' statement is an excellent example of the type of dangerously defective, twisted logic supporting the sale of fireworks in San Bruno. San Bruno's City Council should immediately ban the sale of fireworks in San Bruno so San Brunans can celebrate their independence from the dangers that fireworks pose to San Bruno's residents and their property. Igniting these dangerous pseudo-munitions in any neighborhood is not patriotic, it is dangerous. ![[Home Icon]](webtnfl.gif)
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