The invocation didn’t match what the Commission did at the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 10 September 2013, or at many another session, for that matter.

The invocation included this:

…we can gather here and not have to face the fear arrest or threat. That we can express our opinions openly.

I guess Minister Commissioner John Page hasn’t heard of Ashley Paulk’s Greatest Hits which include a not-so-veiled threat of arrest right there in that same chamber

“I was the sheriff sixteen years; I locked up some of my best friends; that’s the way I operate.”

“If I don’t get those cameras back and the gratuity I’m going to pursue it through the Sheriff’s office.”

Maybe Minister Page has forgotten about current Chairman Bill Slaughter making up a rule to stop people expressing their opinions only a few months ago. Later in the same meeting Page prayed over this time, the Chairman changed the order of the agenda and yet again violated the Commission’s own ordinance. That’s the Lowndes County Commission’s idea of “decently and in order”.

Here’s the video:

Decently and in order? Prayers don’t match Commission behavior
Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 September 2013.

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