Jonathan Melle on Politics - Who I am. Also see Denis Guyer & Andrea Nuciforo.

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I am Jonathan Melle and am starting a Blog because I enjoy understanding, analyzing and commenting on politics. My areas of political interest include: HUMAN RIGHTS for ALL Peoples!, Peace & Social Justice, Global socioeconomic equity to end poverty, which is the root of most social probems, and hopefully being elected to a political office in the future where I will truly represent all: Citizens of the United States of America & the World. As well, I follow Massachusetts Politics, especially in Pittsfield and the State House in Boston. I send out email letters with my thoughts on politics to the people of Massachusetts from my new home in Southern New Hampshire. I follow a few Massachusetts politicians closely.

My political enemies consist of two Massachusetts state politicians: Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr., and Carmen C. Massimiano, Jr. These two men have tried to jail me, intimidate me from speaking out on public policies, and slandered my name to the people of the Pittsfield area where they still live in order to cause me to feel fear, violence and dislike.

I will never be intimidated from participating in politics from the local level to the World Stage. I am an American Citizen with U.S. Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties and I will always speak my good conscience for as long as I live! My goal in politics is to help people via the government, from the local community level through the international community forum. I love all of God's Children and believe that Human Rights for ALL Peoples is the real answer to peace, justice, equity and equality. I believe in the U.S. Constitution and our American way of life. However, I believe the Corporate Elite and their inequitable agendas stand in the way of humankind's journey towards human rights. I further believe that the Corporate Elite is subverting our American Democracy. I hope that my leadership will someday turn the tide against War, Famine, Disease, Hate, and the like. I hope that I will be a leader who defends All Peoples for Democracies, Human Rights, Peace & Justice.

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My wonderful mother Beverly had a medical emergency yesterday (10/24/2007), so I drove her down to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. My mom has had cancer now three times: 1990, 2006 and 2007. I blame Pittsfield, Massachusetts' toxic PCB pollution for causing cancer in my mother's body, as well as countless numbers of others who lived there. GE was the main pollutor of this toxic chemical in Pittsfield, and many Pittsfield residents have suffered through high rates of cancer because of GE's dumping of PCBs all around the city.

I have lead an alternative life moreso than most people, but not always by choice. Throughout my life, I have lived through any and all difficult situations. When I meet with my Social Worker to receive my biweekly mental health treatments for my mental disabilities, which may have also been caused -- in part -- by Pittsfield's toxic waste pollution, he and I discuss the virtues of the myriad of difficult situations I have faced in my life thus far, but also how I have always survived them all without causing anyone else harm. In fact, time after time, I have saved many lives.

Due to my mom's recent surgery to treat her cancer, she is unable to drive. I got my mom to her appointment in Boston yesterday at 1:30 P.M. on the dot -- right on time. The medical staff at Dana Farber/Brigham & Women's Hospital treated my mom right away. By 2:00 P.M., we were on our way with my mom all fixed up like new.

Game 1 of the World Series was about to take place that night, and since Fenway Park is a 15-minute walk down Brookline Street from my mom's hospital, I asked my mom if I could feel the setting of The World Series. At first, my mom said to me, "I don't know. I am not supposed to walk too long or exert myself too much right now." I said, "O.K., mom, I understand." We had a snack at "au bon pain" and then my mom changed her mind and let me walk to Fenway Park.

In between my mom's hospital, on our walk, was Emmanuel College (Catholic) and Simmons College (Womens). After the two colleges, there was a mall with a Best Buy, R.E.I. sporting goods store, a movie theater, and my mom's favorite, an art store. My mom made a deal with me. She would spend 30-minutes at the art store while I toured the outside of Fenway Park. So for 30-minutes I got to walk all around Fenway Park yesterday around 3:00 P.M. before Game 1 of the World Series. I was really excited, but I was unable to buy a program booklet because it cost an exorbinant $15.

Ironically, my mom and I then watched a movie at "Fenway Stadium" that mirrored GE's pollution of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, called "Michael Clayton" starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, & Sydney Pollack. This fictional agricultural chemical company had killed 486 people with one of their agricultural chemicals -- just like GE has killed countless thousands of people with their dumping of cancer-causing PCBs all over Pittsfield -- and this fictional company was now involved in a $3 Billion class-action lawsuit and hired George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson's law firm to cover the whole thing up so as to limit the financial damages to their bottom-line. This fictional company goes onto kill Tom Wilkinson's character, and they then try to ice George Clooney's character too because these lawyers are suffering a crisis of conscience about the monster's they were defending. George Clooney's character survives the assassination attempt, and then successfully sets up a sting against the company. It was a really good movie!

After 6:00 P.M., my mom and I walked back down Brookline Street towards her hospital, and she treated me to a dinner out. My mom looked really happy. She had not looked so at ease in a long time. I told my mom how happy she looked, and she said that she feels good but was exhausted, and that her outlook looks rosy. Around 8:00 P.M., my mom navigated for me as I drove out of Boston and back to my parent's home in Southern New Hampshire.

My mom briefly sat with my dad and I as we watched the Red Sox game on TV, and then went to bed. While my mom sat with my dad and I last night as we watched the Red Sox game on TV, I told my dad how my mom took a stand for the Red Sox in the art store earlier today. There was a woman who was on her cell phone and she said, "Go Rockies." My mom then corrected her and said, "Go Red Sox." The woman said to my mom how she flew to Boston all the way from Colorado. My mom responded to the woman, "You are in Red Sox country now." My dad loved the story and we shared a collective smile as we rooted for our hometeam.

I sat with my dad for the next 90-minutes and together we watched the Red Sox take a commanding 13-1 lead, which ended up being the final score of Game 1 of the World Series. My dad told me that I was a good man for helping mom today. I said to my dad that it was my pleasure, and that I do not have a job so I am the perfect person to help out in these kinds of situations. I told my dad that my mom was in a really good mood and we had a nice day together in Boston.

-Jonathan A. Melle

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12/15/2007

Dear Bloggers:

I hope to be a future U.S. President. I am only 32-years of age. I have mental disabilities for which the current U.S. President ordered me a hearing before the VA one city block from The White House in mid-July, 2004 for protecting lives in the U.S. Army, but I am also very intelligent and have a Master's Degree in public policies and administration from U Mass Amherst.

Someday, I hope to serve the people of the United States of America and peoples of the World as a future U.S. President. When I am U.S. President, I will serve the People (and Peoples), not the Corporate Elite, for which I expect many economic criticisms from George Will. When I am a future U.S. President, I will END poverty across the entire globe. For I believe poverty is the root of all societal problems we face in the World. If we are truly a civilization and not just cogs in the Corporate System, then poverty would NOT exist.

Mark my words, as a future U.S. President, I am going to end HOMELESSNESS. No one in our World will be without adequate shelter. I am going to continue my protection of human lives that has given my praise from The White House in Washington, D.C. by ensuring social services to all.

Lastly, I am going to END genocide in the World. I cannot believe that genocide still exists in the 21st Century. When I am a future U.S. President, my legacy will be the end of genocide. I hope that between my age of 32 and my future age as president, someone beats me to the punch.

In Truth,
Jonathan Alan Melle
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3/19/2008

My mom took me on a 3 day vacation to NYC this past weekend. We went to several museums, including the JP Morgan Library and then the Met. Also, we ate out an Italian Restaurant in Little Italy, which was called Pellegrino's. Saturday, March 15th, 2008, was a beautiful Spring-like day; we walked to uptown & then back to midtown. We saw Megan Mullally (from Will & Grace) in a Broadway Play: "Young Frankenstein". She has a beautiful voice. We visited with two of my family members who live in the area, too. It was a wonderful time.

-Jonathan Melle

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1/24/2008

Re: Deval-uator's FY2009 Massachusetts State Government Budget proposal.

I am very disappointed that the state is choosing to balance its fiscal books on the backs of its cities and towns AGAIN!

In previous years, Senator Stan Rosenberg emailed me about how the state did not have to borrow money to cover its operational or general fund costs, while he omitted, of course, the part of the many billions of dollars in debt incurred by the state from "Big Dig" borrowing.

I wanted to run for State Senator (against "Luciforo") in 2004 before moving to Southern NH because the state cut its aid to its cities and towns for 3 consecutive fiscal years: FY2002-FY2004, while Legislators like "Luciforo" and Stan Rosenberg voted for and/or accepted 3 legislative pay raises.

Now, the "Big Dig" settlement will net the state less than 1/2-Billion Dollars after costing taxpayers $15 Billion. What a rip-off!

Deval Patrick SUCKS as the Governor of Massachusetts. The Legislature is no better. The "Big Dig" is going to someday collapse under water.

I wish I was able to have run for Berkshire State Senator in 2004. At least there would have been one good man out of the group who would have saved the cities and towns from this financial destruction served up on Beacon Hill's State House.

In Dissent!
Jonathan A. Melle

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"Paul, Pearl City, HI" - May 31, 2008 -

Do you and your Dad still hoop suck when playing basketball like you use to at the YMCA? Never got back on defense and were always there for the long pass and the easy basket. You are quite the little Democrat now aren't you. I remember you when you and your brother use to come down into the weight room when you were in high school. Word to the wise stop being a limp wrist, panty wearing, whiney Democrat like many of the robots in Massachusetts that think Ted Kennedy (aka Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons)is "Mr. Wonderful". Unfortunately, Mayor Ruberto does what all good democrats do when faced with a shortage of cash and that of course is to hit the RICH, you know anybody that owns a home or small business. Three years ago he and the city council made that "tough" decision to raise the property taxes back then and are still doing it without increasing the quality of life for the people of Pittsfield. The thing is, I'm sure the people would not mind so much except they get nothing back for their money. I voted for Mayor Ruberto because I thought he would bring fresh ideas after being away from Pittsfield for 20 years but he unfortunately has done very little. One last thing does your Dad still play pick up basketball. His favorite shot was the set shot from the outside.

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"Melle is a loser", Pittsfield, Massachusetts, May 29, 2008

You should really stop spamming the Topix forums with your blogs. Noone wants to read them.

You are a nobody and nobody cares what you have to say.

You are insignificant and you have only two claims to fame:

1) you got waitresses at Hooters to take a picture with you (you probably think that now she's your girlfriend), and,

2)....well, I guess that's it. You're a loser.

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"Publius", Holyoke, Massachusetts, May 29, 2008

What spam? First I've seen of it.

Must be I have better things to do than look for Hooters pix. You must be a Hooters reject.

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Jonathan Melle at Fenway Park (above).
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July 23, 2008

Please look at the following map/graph:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/UserFiles/Image/Blog/ftsbs-large.jpg

No wonder Massachusetts has a +$1 Billion state budget deficit, while NH has a +$200 Million state budget deficit. The federal government is screwing us out of our own tax dollars by redistributing the money to other state governments!

On another note, today is my 33rd Birthday. I am in good health, but I only have $1 to my name. I broke with my usual contempt for the state lottery (regressive taxation), and I bought myself a $1 powerball ticket for tonight. I am blessed by good family and friends, which matters most in one's life.

I guess if I wanted to be like our nation's tax system, I should be like New Mexico and have $2 to my name instead of like New Hampshire and having 67-cents to my name. My $1 is only worth 59-cents compared to when President Bush #2 took office when I was nearly 25.5-years-old, or about 7.5-years-ago.

Our country's public financial system is as terrible as my net worth! At least those fellow 33-year-olds in China & India have jobs!

Sincerely,
Jonathan A. Melle

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* OTHER BULLIES IN JONATHAN MELLE's LIFE:
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Pittsfield's political inbred, dark prince: Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr.!
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www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/05/andrea-nuciforo-jonathan-melle-month-of.html
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Carmen Massimiano II
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P.S. Please keep protecting all of the bullies: Commonwealth of Massachusetts and State of New Hampshire, respectively, among all other included but sorry top-down, elitist authorities/institutions. THE ONLY ANSWER FROM THE STATE SO FAR IS TO PERSECUTE JONATHAN MELLE UNTIL I COMPLETELY LOSE MY SANITY! Do not stand up to the bullies, but rather, PERSECUTE ME! However, ALL OF THE "ASSHOLES OF THE WORLD" WILL BE JUDGED BY GOD! I will have the last laugh in Heaven! -Jonathan Alan Melle
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Re: The passing of my 99 year maternal Grandmother

9/26/2008

Dear Friends,

My Grandmother Frances Tremblay -- (Born Filomena Marie Marchetti) -- died yesterday at 11:15 A.M. with my mom watching over her at my Uncle's home in R.I. She was 99 years. Next Friday, 10/3, & next Saturday, 10/4, the funeral services will be held in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

When I lived with my Grandmother for about 7-months from August 26, 2003 - April 6, 2004 in my native hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, after my parents moved away from Becket, Massachusetts, to Southern New Hampshire, I was able to help her with her elderly life, and I was able to meet and know her doctors, family and friends. I was able to spend time with her, too.

Prior to moving to Southern NH, I was able to save her life, as the doctor's office called and apprised me that she had a diabetic attack with a blood sugar level over 600 points; while a normal count ranges between 60 - 120 points. I ensured that she be admitted to the local hospital and they brought her back to me in good health.

I will miss my grandmother, and I believe her passing yesterday (9/25/2008) was merciful and ended her suffering during her hospice care treatment.

In Truth,
Jonathan A. Melle

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Re: I have failed my native home "commonwealth"!

October 17, 2008

I should have braved the corruption and wickedness of Pittsfield, (Massachusetts), politics in early-2004 and waged a viable campaign for Berkshire State Senator against then-State Senator Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr. (now Berkshire State Senator Ben Downing). Instead of focusing on the city and "commonwealth", my anger at "Luciforo's" abuses of power and his corruption diverted my otherwise good intentions, and I unfortunately dropped out of the race.

Only a mere +4.5-years-ago, I collected over 300 campaign signatures, without one state representative and the like signing (Peter J Larkin, William Pignatelli, Daniel Bosley; Carmen Massimiano, et al), to place my name on the September '04 primary ballot.

My reasons for running were two: one good and the other personal or negative. The latter was that I strongly dislike "Luciforo". To read more about my negative feelings on Pittsfield's political prince of darkness, please view my Blog pages:

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Luciforo%22+blogurl:http://jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/

For this above reason, I have failed my native home "commonwealth"!

The former reason was my good intentions. You see, in early-2004, I was upset with former-Acting Governor Jane Swift and then-Governor WILLARD Mitt Romney and the closed door, special interest and CORRUPT self-serving Massachusetts State Legislature.

I lived in Berkshire County for the first 28.5-years of my life: From July 23, 1975 to April 6, 2004. From the "Thanksgiving 2001" FY2002 Massachusetts State Budget to the "Summer 2003" FY2004 Massachusetts State Budget, Governors Swift and Romney with the Legislature CUT LOCAL AID 3 CONSECUTIVE FISCAL YEARS! Please note, that in this same time period, the Legislature voted themselves 3 pay raises during the 3 years of budget cuts to their districts.

So it was early-2004, still FY2004, and the state government had decimated the financing of my then local area's local governmental units to record low levels! As a result of what Beacon Hill's State House did, property taxes went up by 33% to 40%, which forced elderly citizens out of their homes. Moreover, then-Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey once stated that "Seniors were overhoused" and that they should be forced to sell their homes and live in inner cities in small apartments for greater efficiency.

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As a native of Berkshire County, I saw how much the majority of Berkshire residents relied on their state taxpayers being returned to them via local aid to fund the units of their local governmental services: Public Education, Public Safety, Public Works, and the like. Unlike Boston and its wealthy suburbs, a majority of Berkshire County residents rely on their state representatives and one state senator to advocate for their needs.

I saw a majority of Berkshire residents being SCREWED by their state representatives: Peter J Larkin (now Chris Speranzo), William Pignatelli, Shaun Kelly (now Denis E Guyer), & Daniel Bosley! I also saw my then-State Senator, LUCIFORO!, representing INSURANCE COMPANIES in private law practice, while at the very same time chairing the very legislative committee that regulated them. I was upset and saddened for my native hometown and Berkshire County...FOR GOOD REASONS! Berkshire County was being sold out by bought off Berkshire area Legislators, including Amherst's State Senator Stan Rosenberg, too.

I have lived in Southern New Hampshire's Hillsborough County since April 7, 2004 through today (10/17/2008) and onwards. I am now 33-plus years of age. For the past +4.5-years, I have watched Massachusetts State Politics and followed the Berkshires, too. Please note, that (Amherst, NH &) Manchester, NH share Boston's news media. I like living in Southern New Hampshire, except for me facing 7 FALSE criminal charges before the NH Superior Court - North at my re-scheduled trial by jury on 2/17/2009. Please note, New Hampshire has PERSECUTORS just like Massachusetts!

Now, I read that Governor Deval Patrick is following in his predecessors' footsteps in reducing finances for governmental units. One would ask, what is wrong with that? My answer is that just like Jane Swift and WILLARD Mitt Romney, Deval Patrick is making inequitable cuts to governmental units that a majority of residents depend on for their well being, WHILE (at the same time) KEEPING IN PLACE TAX BREAKS and public or taxpayer subsidies for the state's already wealthy SPECIAL INTERESTS...just like before!

You don't believe me? O.K., I will prove my point! Please visit my Blog pages on the Deval-uator and the (not so) great Tim Murray:
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&, My least favorite story is North Adams State Representative Daniel "Bureaucrat" Bosley sponsoring a secret budget rider to the FY2009 Massachusetts state budget that would have given hundreds of millions in off-shore tax breaks to large corporations, which was called "The Bosley Amendment"! Fortunately, "The Bosley Amendment" was defeated prior to the FY2009 Massachusetts State Budget was passed into law.
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Please note that "Bureaucrat" Bosley also voted to abolish "Clean Elections" in the FY2004 Massachusetts State Budget. Please note that "Bureaucrat" Bosley also was a loyal Lieutenant of former-Speaker Tom Finneran and is now at the beckon call of Speaker Sal DiMasi! Please note that "Bureaucrat" Bosley takes in many thousands of dollars per year from special interests that are far east of his legislative district. Please note that "Bureaucrat" Bosley is Orwellian in his support and opposition to gambling public policies. He supports the state's monopoly on the Lottery system, but strongly opposes the state licensing private casinos. To read more about Daniel E. Bosley, please view my Blog pages:

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Bosley%22+blogurl:http://jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/&sa=N&start=0

You can see how I have failed my native home "commonwealth" by not being elected Berkshire County State Senator about 4 years ago due to me dropping out of the race and moving away. I get distracted by all of these CORRUPT Pols, and I become very angry with them, and I lose my focus on what I wanted to do to make society a better place for a majority of the people to live, work and enjoy.

If I had not failed my native home "commonwealth", I would have worked hard to ensure the brutal fiscal realities to day would have been history, footnoted to Jane Swift and WILLARD Mitt Romney. I would have ensured Berkshire County and Western Massachusetts, and the like received equitable levels of local aid. I would have ensured effective, efficient and accountable governance.

However, I am sorry Massachusetts, I have failed you long ago in early-2004. I shed tears for you and feel sorry for the people for having a government they certainly do NOT deserve!

In Dissent!
Jonathan Melle

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12/13/2008

Those were the days, my friend. Hanging out every weekend at the Pittsfield YMCA. We would play basketball for 3 to 4 hours, sometimes lift weights, sometimes go upstairs to the nautilus room where people would play volleyball and other games. That was when Pittsfield was cool. We all used to stick together like a cult of gym rats who had each other's backs. Unfortunately, it only takes a few bad apples to ruin what we had in our youth. Just like the haters who ruined the "Y", I am dealing with Manchester Police Officer John Cunningham who is filled with so much anger and hate that he is trying to ruin my life by lying about illegally using multiple kinds of force against me. All we have is our memories. Looking forward, we have to remember who we truly are inside and we can get through everything and anything. The good people still have my back and that is all that counts.

- Jonathan Melle

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The Manchester Express, February 9 - 15, 2009, Volume 4 No. 7
"Politics this week" ~In Part~
By JOSEPH KELLY LEVASSEUR, Manchester Express Columnist

Political gadfly Jonathan Melle has moved out of Ward 3 (in Manchester, NH). (Jonathan) Melle purchased a condo in Amherst (New Hampshire) to be closer to his parents. The feisty Democrat has publicly pounded on Democratic Ward 3 Alderman Peter Sullivan and Republican Mayor Frank Guinta. (Jonathan) Melle, not impressed with Guinta, has called him the “worst mayor ever.” But the mayor and aldermen won’t see Melle around City Hall anymore.

“Since I no longer am a resident of the ward, I will no longer make public comment at City Hall,” Melle said. “But I will still blog my opinions.”

In an e-mail, Ward 8 Alderman (& NH State Senator) Betsi DeVries reacted to Melle’s move:

“Jonathan, I just wanted to express my regrets that you have decided to move to Amherst (New Hampshire), and wish you all the best,” DeVries wrote. “You will always be an individual who watches and comments on government and stays involved. This is to be applauded. Again I wish you the best.”

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April 18, 2009

Re: Massachusetts guts local aid dollars AGAIN!

One of the reasons why I wanted to run for Massachusetts State Senate back in early-2004 was because the state government had cut local aid dollars, including public education monies for 3 consecutive fiscal years from the "Thanksgiving 2001" FY2002 state budget through the FY2004 beginning on July 1, 2003. As a then resident of Becket, Massachusetts, I watched my then state government make cut after cut after cut to any and all programs and public services that served my then regional public interest in Berkshire County and Western Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the Governor (from Jane Swift to WILLARD Mitt Romney) and Legislature kept voting themselves pay raise after pay raise after pay raise. Moreover, the Legislators reported many thousands of special interest dollars in the campaign coffers, and while they cut services that benefited their constituents, they kept in place hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for Boston area big banks and insurance companies, among other already wealthy corporations. It was impossible to run against my State Representative or State Senator because they had six-figure campaign "war chests", while their constituents had to pay more state and local taxes and fees far above the rate of nominal inflation. Now, 5 years later, I read from my perch in Southern New Hampshire that Beacon Hill is proposing a record setting 25% cut in local aid dollars on top of the already 10% "emergency" cut in local aid earlier this year. These continual cuts will be devastating for most of the people and regions of the commonwealth of Massachusetts who do not benefit from the corporate elite's business interests. However, the State Representatives and Senators, whom all received a sizeable pay raise of over $3,200 earlier this year, will be more secure in keeping their incumbency in tact. To me, it all boils down to: "if there is no bread, then let them eat cake." I wish I could have stuck it out in Massachusetts politics, defeated "Luciforo", and brought real representation to the people of Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

In Dissent!
Jonathan Melle

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July 16, 2009

Re: I have no intention of running for US Congress

There has been postings on the Internet that I may run for US Congress someday. I have no intention of doing so. First of all, it would cost about $10 million every 2 years, which would mean that I would have to raise $5 million a year for 2 decades, which is $100 million over a career on Capitol Hill. That would mean that I would have to do the bidding of lobbyists, corporate executives and their PACs. However, I have a good conscience, which means I would NEVER take their special interest money to obtain and retain high political office. There are over 40,000 registered lobbyist in Washington, D.C. compared to 535 members of US Congress on Capitol Hill, which means there are about 70 lobbyists for 1 member of US Congress. Who really runs the show? In theory, the people via their national "elected" delegates. In reality, the corporate executives through their lobbyist and PACs. Moreover, I live below the poverty line as a Disabled Veteran who served our nation Honorably in the US Army. While I am poor, at least I can live with myself and sleep at night. Politicians who take special interest money are nothing more than whores in suits! I want to a good person who wont sell the people out for high political office. I would, however, like to be a future US President so I could bring back the humanitarian values of the Enlightenment and Founding Fathers, which means standing up for Human Rights for ALL Peoples both in the USA and citizens of the World. I would like to end genocides, wars, poverty, and many other needless social injustices. I can only HOPE!

- Jonathan A. Melle

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July 30, 2009

"No tax on Medications" - "Ten things you did not know about jonathan melle
1-he thinks he will be elected president of the united states
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3-the army discharged him from service as unfit
4-he is love with a hooter girl called tiffany
5-his middle name is homer
6-his favorite food is split pea & ham soup
7-he hates 12,447 elected public officials
8-he was rejected as contestant on the tv show "I LOVE NEW YORK"
9-he thinks there is a conspiracy to get him
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JONATHAN MELLE's RESPONSE:

1 - Yes. I want to be a future US Prez!
www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/09/jonathan-melle-on-politics-who-i-am.html

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3 - Yes. The US Army Psychiatrist found me mentally unfit for military service. I received an Honorable Discharge, Disabled Veterans Benefits, and the regards of a US President.
www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/11/us-army-to-va.html

4 - I have never been in love with any Hooters lady.
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However, I do, indeed, like going to Hooters.
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5 - My middle name is NOT Homer. It is Alan!
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6 - My favorite food is NOT split pea & ham soup. It is ICE CREAM!
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7 - I do NOT hate 12,447 elected public officials. I do not hate Denis E Guyer anymore!

8 - I was never rejected as a contestant on on the TV show "I LOVE NEW YORK". However, I am a North Street reject!
www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/11/pittsfields-revitalization-via-perverse.html

9 - Yes. I do, indeed, believe that there is a conspiracy that is set out to make me look like a bad person! It centers around Pittsfield's Inbred, Dark Political Prince: Andrea F Nuciforo II (aka "Luciforo"!).
www.jonathanmelleonpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/05/andrea-nuciforo-jonathan-melle-month-of.html

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- Jonathan Melle

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May 6, 2010

Re: Hardball court tomorrow

The Prosecutor, Brett Harpster, is going to ask the Judge, James O'Neill, for the maximum penalty of 12 months in jail against me tomorrow (Friday) morning when I go to my sentencing in Laconia, NH. His reasoning for "throwing the book at me" is because he believes a criminal act against a police officer must be met with jail time. I asked my Attorney, Tom Ficarra, to stand up to Attorney Brett Harpster, and explain that I am a mentally disabled man/Veteran who did not understand or was unable to adequately communicate with the hostile police officer, named John Cunningham. I did not intend to hurt anyone, nor did anyone get hurt (except for me when Cunningham illegally sprayed and beat me). And that I take responsibility for my actions of misdemeanor reckless conduct and misdemeanor disobeying a police officer and will fulfill the obligation of my sentence. I do not believe that Attorney Brett Harpster is being reasonable. He made a mockery of my mental disabilities in court by telling the jury it was a "crutch" and to throw "that card out"! He suppressed the witness' statement that Police Officer John Cunningham yelled "I do NOT care if he is disabled"! Attorney Brett Harpster is playing hardball against me. I will not be intimidated by these unfair tactics. I believe that my Defense Attorney will stand up to his opposing counsel's shameful tactics and the Judge will see reason when he sentences me tomorrow morning.

- Jonathan Melle

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May 7, 2010

Re: many weekends in jail and other consequences

My sentencing today will incarcerate me at the Hillsborough County NH Jail in Manchester from Friday evening through Sunday evening for many consecutive weekends in jail starting on May 14th, 2010. My other punitive obligations include a $500 (+ $100) fine, 1-year of probation, community service, a letter of apology to Manchester Police Officer John Cunningham, an evaluation by the DMV concerning my ability to drive, and follow-up with my medical (mental health) treatment at the VA Hospital. My crimes are misdemeanor reckless conduct and misdemeanor disobeying a police officer. I spoke at my sentencing, stating that the prosecutor discriminated against me for having mental health disabilities and the police officer sprayed and beat me, as well as yelled at one of the witnesses: "I don't care if he is disabled".

- Jonathan Melle

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April 28, 2011

I am not a statistic, nor a reflection of the sad realities facing Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Instead of contributing to job loss, I worked every and any job given to me throughout my life. I served our nation Honorably in the U.S. Army and am a Disabled Veteran. As a young adult, I went to college for 6 straight years instead of being part of the teenage pregnancy welfare complex that is Pittsfield & North Adams. I only have 2 misdemeanors for a criminal record and served my time, fines and fees. I don't abuse alcohol and I don't do drugs. I am averse to violence of any kind. While I have been a victim of bullies, I refuse to live at any of their low levels of behaviors. I speak out against insider politics and the corrupt politicians who use the Good Old Boy network's political machine for their own gain at the expense of many. I blog about politics, politicians and the system to try to understand, analyze and speak for changes. I email my political thoughts and personal struggles so people would understand my good conscience and well meaning for our World. I support quality public education and dissent against all of the politics that have taken away from teachers educating students to think critically and be good citizens. No one wants Pittsfield to change more than me. It is my native hometown and I get angry to see its downward spiral into job loss, teen pregnancies & welfare caseloads, violent crimes and drug use, corrupt & insider politics, and poorly performing schools. Rinaldo Del Gallo, III, used to speak out about the real Pittsfield back in 2003 - 2005 era, too. Rinaldo was not listened to because The Berkshire Eagle, the Good Old Boy network & political machine, & WHEN voiced many falsehoods and propaganda that has neglected the need for economic growth, family values, community, public schools, and stopping violent crimes. I don't know what happened to Rinaldo's voice for Pittsfield. Maybe he got discouraged, but Rinaldo was right about everything he spoke out about. Rinaldo is intelligent and should run for political office once again. I like the work Dan Valenti is doing on his blog. Maybe Valenti will make a difference in Pittsfield.

- Jonathan Melle

http://planetvalenti.com/2011/04/planet-exclusive-bianchi-is-running-for-mayor-plus-vincelette-looking-for-another-spin-in-ward-4/comment-page-1/#comment-25786

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December 10, 2014

Re: It is (not) all my fault that I am a financially insecure nearly 40 year old man

It is all my fault that I never had a +$20 per hour plus benefits living wage job with job security where I could save for my retirement, and get married and afford a residential home in a nice neighborhood and have two children and one dog and one cat, and then save for their college funds, and have a nest egg for emergency expenses. It is my fault that I am almost 40 years old next summer without attaining the American Dream. I mean, millions of jobs have been outsourced to Asian nations like China, India, and the like. I mean, income inequality and flat wages for the average worker is the new normal in our 21st Century American economy. I mean, everything is more expensive than ever before. Housing, Healthcare Insurance, Education, Debt, Negative Income, Insufficient Retirement Accounts, Job Insecurity. But, it is all the fault of Jonathan Alan Melle of Amherst, New Hampshire!

- Jonathan A. Melle

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February 21, 2015

Re: Big banks are planting the seeds of political extremism

I have been following the Greek financial system and its 4 month extension of bailout aid that gives Greece more time to negotiate an agreement with its creditors, including its biggest creditor: Germany, to avoid defaulting on its debts. I believe our financial system is planting the seeds of political extremism. The same seeds that were planted at the end of World War One, which lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler and other dangerous dictators. The big banks want all of the money, power, and control over the political system. The big banks are systematically destroying the middle class. The big banks want Greece to implement austerity measures that would diminish the quality of life and financial security of the masses. Our political leaders in America and Europe are letting this happen. Many politicians from the White House to U.S. Congress are supporting the top-down financial system for their own special interests. I am sending this letter to the U.S. President, and my delegates to Capitol Hill.

- Jonathan Melle

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March 3, 2015

Re: We are all being controlled by the system

Dan Valenti writes about China surpassing the United States of America in economic output. He believes China poses an imperial threat to our nation's Superpower status. I see it from a different perspective. I see China's economic status and the US' Superpower status under the lens of the corporate elite benefiting from a new global economic system at the expense of the billions of have-not people. Everything is being done for the benefit of the wealthiest corporations. It no longer matters if the U.S. is number one or China is number one. The billionaire class does not care if I make $10 per hour in the U.S. or $1 per hour in China. As long as wealth and growth is maintained for the most elite of our institutions, someone such as myself can "pound sand" in either nation. The global economic system is no longer based on democracy. Our nation's ruling and business elites are bought by the billionaire class. Everything is based on the financial system now. The underclass is larger than ever now. Communities such as Pittsfield are losing the battle because there are no elites benefiting from the system. It is a scary world in the 21st Century. If we systematically take away people's economic and political security via an equitable and democratic society, we are planting the seeds for another Hitler to take over the system. This time, there will be no power on Earth to stop another madman because we will all be controlled by the system.

- Jonathan Melle

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March 21, 2015

Re: The three legged stool of the middle class

The three legged stool of the middle class are:

Leg One: Housing. People who live in decent housing with safe streets will lead prosperous lives.

Leg Two: Public Education. People who learn to think and acquire job skills will lead prosperous lives.

Leg Three: Healthcare Insurance. People who are healthy will lead prosperous lives.

After the three legged stool of the middle class, people need job security and financial security.

Put all of this together with a nurturing family structure, and our nation will have a strong middle class once again.

This is not rocket science. Both the Democratic and Republican Parties say they are the for the middle class. Politicians need to invest in people again. It is not all about corporate profit margins and top-down growth of the economic/financial system. Both the Government and the private sector need to invest in the people so they are able to obtain decent housing, public education, and healthcare insurance. We must ensure that the working class has both job and financial security. We must support strong families that nurture each other. We must rebuild the middle class once again.

- Jonathan Melle

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July 20, 2015

Re: my final "mass" email

I turn 40 later this week, and I am done sending "mass" emails. A lot of what I went through with Nuciforo's Pittsfield politics has passed. I am no longer affected by the negative experiences I had as a then young adult living in the Pittsfield area. I am happy my personal and political problems in Pittsfield are over and done with. I like my middle aged life in Amherst, NH. I have a wonderful family and a good dog, support from my fellow Veterans at the VA medical center in Manchester, NH, and I have my self respect back. I wish the people of Pittsfield well. I will still read and blog about Pittsfield and Massachusetts politics. I enjoy reading Dan Valenti's blog: "Planet Valenti".

- Jonathan Melle

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Jonathan Melle with my dog Chocolate on September 18, 2015.
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July 3, 2017

The American Dream has a special meaning to me. It is the power of Free Speech and the Right to dissent against corrupt politicians and the government they spoil. I will always speak my good conscience as long as I live! I will always speak out against corrupt politicians, the political system full of special interests and corporate lobbyists, and socioeconomic injustices that cost our society "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness".

- Jonathan Melle

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August 14, 2017

Re: Human Rights under law

We are a country founded on both Human Rights and Slavery. The United States of America is a contradiction in terms. We hold our ideals of democracy, Human Rights, and Liberty to be sacred. We cannot erase our nation's unjust past.

Prior to the Declaration of Independence, we lived in British Colonies that were ran like corporations for the profit of the British state. We rebelled against colonialism and British tyranny over the American People. However, our Founders also owned Slaves and exploited the Native Americans in ways similar to the British.

In Europe and in America, there is an alt-Right or White Supremacy movement. Most people are against this newest form of fascism that we fought against in World War Two. But there are minority factions of white groups that support overt discrimination against minorities including the Jewish People, the Muslim People, the Black or African-American People, the Mexican Immigrants or Mexican-American People, and the like.

For the record, and above all else, I stand for Human Rights for all Peoples and people! We all have equal rights under the law. We must stand against hate, intolerance, and discrimination. We should love and respect one another, and embrace our diversity.

I am a disabled Veteran who suffers from mental illness. I live and breathe because I live in a country that accepts people like me. Sometimes, I get made fun of by bullies or ignorant people, but at the end of the day, I am alive and well because of Human Rights under law.

- Jonathan Melle

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August 24, 2017

I saw that a Western Massachusetts women won the 2nd largest Powerball drawing in U.S. history. My Powerball ticket had no matching numbers. But, I had the chance to dream of being a multi-millionaire. That is what the lottery really sells people who pay that state a voluntary tax borne by more low-income consumers than high-income ones. It is kind of like a beer commercial where there are beautiful young women in bikinis dancing around men. But when I drink a cold one, I am only dreaming like when I buy my lottery tickets. Anyways, I am happy for the 53 year old lady from Chicopee who won last night's Powerball jackpot!

- Jonathan Melle

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June 9, 2019

Re: My former criminal record has been annulled!

I no longer have a criminal record. The State of New Hampshire recently granted me annulments. I am grateful to be a law-abiding citizen in good standing again.

- Jonathan Melle

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June 21, 2019

War = Money!

The U.S.A. has the World's largest market share of selling military weapons and technology. It is our nation's #1 non-farm export. We always fight or are involved in wars each and every year since World War II, which was the last officially declared war. We have a military industrial complex and war machine that runs our government. Our national debt is huge to feed our nation's hunger for war.

It is all very tragic and sad!

- Jonathan Melle

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June 22, 2019

Re: My response to blog poster C. Trzcinka

If you are right, which means that I am wrong, then please answer my questions: Why is our nation's #1 non-farm export military weapons and related technologies? Why does our nation have the World's largest market share of sales of military weapons/tech?  Why does our nation have a military industrial complex with a tragic history of many military conflicts since World War II?  Why is our national debt $22.4-trillion after 4 tax cuts and two wars over the past 2 decades?  Why is Wall Street at record highs?

I respect your opinions.  I hope you will answer my questions about the correlation between war and money.

- Jonathan Melle

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February 22, 2020

Re: I am a persecuted and unlucky man

After I spoke out against Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign for Prez over the past few days on Dan Valenti’s awesome blog, there have been negative blogger posts against me for being a disabled Veteran. I want you to know that from the Spring of 1996 – July 1, 2000, my dad was a politician as a Berkshire County Commissioner. I was 20 years of age during the Spring of 1996. Having a parent in politics led me to be a target of bullying, including vicious rumors, and blacklisting from employment. Nuciforo tried to jail me in the Spring of 1998, and he filed multiple “ethics” complaints against my dad. When I graduated from U Mass Amherst in May of 1999 when I was 23 year of age, I tried to find a job, but my dad was in elected office in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. I had student loans, and I thought I would give the U.S. Army a try. I served for one year and 9 months, and I received an Honorable discharge based on my psychiatric condition. One week prior to 9/11/2001, I started a job at a bank. I worked for the bank for 8.5 months in Pittsfield, Mass. My branch manager, who was a Dalton politician and ally of Nuciforo, called me “wop” many times, as I have an Italian-American last name that means “Mele: Apple” in Italy. I used the f-bomb against my boss, and he reported me for swearing at him, but he denied calling me “wop”. My employment was terminated from the bank during the Spring of 2002. For over one year of my adult life, I walked around Pittsfield, Mass., looking for employment. I was blacklisted. During the Summer of 2003, I worked at a Massachusetts State Park. At the end of the Summer of 2003, my parents sold their home in Becket, Massachusetts. My family moved to Amherst, NH. In the early-winter of 2004, I took out nomination papers and collected signatures for Pittsfield State Senator to oppose Nuciforo, but I dropped out of the race, and I decided to move to Amherst, NH, to live with my family. That Summer of 2004, the then sitting U.S. President, George W. Bush, ordered me a hearing at the VA Central Office near the White House in Washington, D.C. My mom and I went to my VA hearing, but we were told we should have had a Veteran’s Attorney. I worked part-time at Sears in the Tools department from the late-Spring of 2004 until the early-Spring of 2007. In early-June of 2007, a bullying cop in Manchester, NH arrested me. I was indicted for 2 felonies and 8 misdemeanors. I drove past the cop and knocked over an orange traffic cone with my car. The cop jumped me, but he lied about his illegal uses of force. I stood trial in January of 2010, and I was convicted of 2 misdemeanors: reckless conduct and disobeying a police officer. I had to serve 20 weekends in the county jail, among other sentencing punishments. 9 years later, in the Summer of 2019, the State of NH annulled my criminal record. Back to the VA, during the Summer of 2008, I received a letter that the VA had granted me service connection. I am a 100-percent disabled Veteran. I go to the Manchester VAMC for my health care. I feel very fortunate to receive VA care, which is a positive place for me to go most weekdays.

- Jonathan Melle

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March 23, 2020

Re: Disabled Veterans earned their benefits

I disagree with the view that I “sit in an apartment somewhere while I collect an unearned pension”. Rather, disabled Veterans like me earned their benefits through Honorable military service. I also want to say that I went to college and graduate school. When I was a young man, I looked for a job in the Pittsfield area without any success. I believe those who ran Pittsfield politics blacklisted me from employment because my dad was a politician there. They were retaliatory and mean-spirited against my dad and me for not playing ball with the big wheels who ran Pittsfield politics. From the mid-Spring of 2002 to the beginning of Summer of 2003, I walked around Pittsfield (Mass.) looking for a job, but no one would hire me. By the end of the Summer of 2003, my parents retired and sold their home in Becket and they moved to Amherst, NH to be with their then baby granddaughter. I moved to southern NH to live with my family, and all the work I could find was working part-time at a Sears store selling tools, which ended in the early-Spring of 2007, and it would the last job I ever held. I was arrested 2 months later, I was wrongly indicted on two Felonies and 8 misdemeanors after I drove around a Manchester NH cop and knocked over a traffic cone with my car. The cop jumped me and went on to lie about his illegal uses of force against me. Of course, in the cop’s use of force report, he checked off every box stating he used standard operating procedures to subdue and arrest me. In short, John Cunningham lied to cover his own behind, while placing me in legal jeopardy for a number of years. I was convicted of two misdemeanors: reckless conduct and disobeying a police officer. I had to serve 20 weekends in the county jail, among other sentencing guidelines. In the Summer of 2019, the State of New Hampshire annulled my criminal record. In closing, I am thankful for my VA care. Without it, I would be at risk of being homeless and would have to live a life of poverty, which I believe was caused by mean-spirited and retaliatory Pittsfield politicians and a lying city cop who protected himself while watching me get in legal trouble.

- Jonathan Melle

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March 24, 2020

I did not choose to be a victim! My dad was a politician when I was in my early to mid 20's. Pittsfield politics is toxic and mean-spirited! They tried to ruin my dad and my own respective lives during that time in my life. When I was in the U.S. Army, I did not ask to have a steel bar held to my head and then get punished for reporting the incident. I did not ask to be sleep deprived for days on end in the middle of a freezing January winter and then be given illegal orders to drive a 5 ton military vehicle on Germany's civilian roads after a similar 5 ton truck had previously jackknifed and killed a mother and her son in their car en route to a German elementary school. I did not ask to be called "wop" multiple times by my branch manager at a bank and then have my employment terminated after I admitted to swearing at him while he denied his misconduct. I did not ask to be blacklisted from employment by the Good Old Boys who run Pittsfield politics. I did not ask for a Manchester NH cop to illegally use force against me and then deny it while I wrongly faced an excessive amount of criminal charges, including 2 felony indictments and 8 misdemeanor charges. I was convicted of 2 misdemeanor charges, but the State of NH annulled my criminal record last summer (2019). Lastly, I did not ask to be a person with a disability based on a psychiatric condition.

- Jonathan Melle

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March 27, 2020

I am still being picked on in Pittsfield (Mass.)

Thank you for the dressing down. My dad was a Pittsfield area politician (from the Spring of 1996 - July 1, 2000), and they were not nice to my dad and me, especially a former Pittsfield State Senator and current marijuana drug dealer [named Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior] who I promised I would not name anymore on this [Dan Valenti's] awesome blog. When I was a Soldier in the U.S. Army, I complained that a fellow Soldier held a steel bar to my head and I was punished for reporting it. I was sleep deprived for days on end in a cold mid-January winter and then I was given illegal orders drive a 5 ton military truck on Germany's civilian roads, which was a month after a sleep deprived Soldier jackknifed a civilian car killing a mother driving her son to a German elementary school. I received an Honorable discharge based on a psychiatric condition. I am a 100% service connected disabled Veteran, I received a letter from the White House stating the U.S. President (George W. Bush) sends me his regards after he ordered me a hearing at the VA Central Office near the White House in Washington, D.C. during the Summer of 2004. In closing, I think you are wrong to say I am the bad guy! Rather, I am a respected person, despite all of the people who dislike me and have been mean to me in my life of +44.5-years.

- Jonathan Melle

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April 15, 2020

Re: Open letter to blogger Dan Valenti

Hello Dan,

I love reading your awesome blog everyday. I think it is wonderful that you allow “Freedom of Speech”, unlike many news media web-sites.

I support the lovely Linda Tyer in politics. While I do not agree with all of her policies and decisions she makes as Mayor of Pittsfield (Mass.), I admire her compassion for all of the people, as well as her commitment to Human Rights for All. If I were a politician, I would model myself after her leadership!

I oppose Donald Trump in politics. I believe he is EVIL! He had neo-Nazis work for his presidential campaign and administration. He divides people by race. His disparages Peoples and Women with racist, sexist, and demeaning language. His immigration policies are inhumane. He is a moral hypocrite of the highest degree. His economic policies are inequitable. Senior Citizens are afraid of his plans to cut social insurance programs that give the elderly their dignity.

I do not see myself as a “Victim”! I explained to you and your blog followers that my dad was a politician decades ago. My dad told state politicians on Beacon Hill that they are wrong to pick on Berkshire County Government when Boston’s “Big Dig” was running multi-billion dollar cost overruns. They used retribution against my dad and me.

When I was a Soldier in the U.S. Army, another Soldier was sleep deprived and jackknifed a 5 ton military vehicle into a mother driving her son to an elementary school in Germany. In Germany, there was outrage that a negligent on duty American Soldier killed a German civilian mother and her son. That Soldier was court martialed and dishonorably discharged. A month later in a freezing mid-January 2001 winter, my Staff Sergeant ordered me to pull many consecutive 24 hour duty shifts against Army regulations. A Soldier in my platoon threatened me by holding a steel bar to my head. I reported the incident, but only I was punished for telling him to “go to Hell”. Then, my abusive Staff Sergeant ordered me to drive a 5 ton Army vehicle over civilian roads. I knew what happened a month earlier, I was freezing, threatened, and sleep deprived, and I refused to comply with his illegal order. I had a mental breakdown. I received an Honorable discharge based on a psychiatric condition. In the Summer of 2004, the then sitting U.S. President, George W. Bush, ordered my a hearing at the VA Central Office near the White House in Washington, D.C. 4 years later, in the Summer of 2008, I was granted service connection VA disability benefits. I am now a 100% service connected disabled Veteran.

On June 7, 2007, I drove around a Manchester NH police officer and knocked over a traffic cone with my car to park in my car near my then downtown apartment. The county D.A.’s office indicted me on 2 felonies, along with 8 misdemeanors. I stood trial in January of 2010 in NH Superior Court in Nashua NH. The jury found me “not guilty” of the 2 felony indictments, but I was convicted of 2 misdemeanors: reckless conduct and disobeying a police officer. Last Summer 2019, the State of NH annulled my criminal record.

I have faced difficult circumstances in my life, but I take my mental health seriously. I follow evidenced based recovery mental health practices to live a rewarding life in my home, with my family, in my community, and in our great country that honors me.

Best wishes,

Jonathan Melle

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April 17, 2020

I keep telling you and everyone else that I tried to find work for years of my adult life. It did not happen for me. I am vested in the VA system now. It is not that I choose not to work, but rather, it is that I don't want to become homeless in my mid-40's. I take my VA care seriously. I am thankful for what I have in my life.

- Jonathan Melle

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May 28, 2020

Police need to go through mental health response training. When I was arrested in Manchester, NH on June 7, 2007 by city cop John Cunningham, he screamed at the witnesses that he did not care if I (Jonathan Melle) is disabled. After my trial by jury, the Police Chief sent me a letter in the mail apologizing for his police officer's disrespectful behavior and words.

I believe police should be evaluated for their mental health, too. My arresting police officer should have been made to go through anger management mental health treatment.

- Jonathan Melle

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July 15, 2020

Re: In memory of Joan Kaiser

When my family lived in Becket, Massachusetts from the Spring of 1996 - late August of 2003, we befriended a loyal Democrat named Joan Kaiser. She was always kind to me and she supported my dad Bob when he ran for Berkshire County Commissioner in 1996. She wrote a letter to the New Hampshire Judge in 2010 on my behalf saying that I was always a caring person. I learned today that she recently passed away. I was sad to hear the news that a good and decent person recently passed away. Joan Kaiser will always have a special place in my heart.

- Jonathan Melle

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December 18, 2020

My experience with someone playing "the victim card" is that they usually are both the abuser and the victim, but they only tell their side of the story.  It always comes down to who has more power than the person on the other side of the conflict.  Hopefully, we can all be adults in the proverbial room and not say "I am a woman" or "I am black" or "I am poor" and the like.  When will we ever grow up?

- Jonathan Melle

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July 18, 2021

Hello blogger Dan Valenti,

I promise to keep my blog postings on your awesome blog about Pittsfield politics and beyond brief.  Thank you for your suggestion.  I enjoy reading your blog, and I respect your rules and suggestions.  My 46th birthday is this Friday, July 23rd.  I still enjoy learning and I have learned a lot from the diverse political viewpoints posted on your awesome blog about our native hometown and beyond.  I don't care if people roll their eyes and/or skip over my blog posts.  I enjoy reading all political viewpoints within reason.  In closing, the one thing I still do not fully understand is why so many people have to lose in politics for the elites to always win.

Best wishes,

Jonathan A. Melle

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August 9, 2021

On my 46th birthday night on July 23rd, my friend won over $1,000 with Quad Aces.  The Lucky Moose Casino in Nashua, New Hampshire posted our picture on their website.  I was being a big goofball with my tongue sticking out.

https://www.luckymoosecasino.com/winners/

Jonathan A. Melle

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November 23, 2021

I wish to write my condolences for the passing of Pittsfield Massachusetts' longest serving city Democratic Party association member, Edith Mazzer.  I was fortunate to have been friends with Edith during and after my time living in my native hometown of Pittsfield Massachusetts.  I used to sit with Edith at local political events, and I was able to treat Edith to meals out at Pittsfield restaurants.  I feel fortunate to have been friends with Edith, who lived 97 years and was dedicated to Pittsfield politics and the community she loved.

Jonathan A. Melle

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December 28, 2021

"Marxist/Masturbating" Melle would not win an election.  But Maryland Markey won by using his HOT AIR to sell his Utopian Green New Deal propaganda to Massachusetts voters that old man Ed says will save the world from Global Warming - yeah right & 4 eye rolls.  Moscow Mitch McConnell won by opposing Maryland Markey and his far-left colleagues in the Swamp.  So many Mmmmm's....  Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley.... But no Melle.  My last name derives from the Italian word for Apple.  Melle, Piedmont, Italy is the village that my Old-World family probably came from, but somehow one of my family members made his way to Pittsfield, Massachusetts well over one century ago; I believe in or shortly after 1888.  My immigrant great-great Grandfather Michael Melle lived in a working-class home across Clapp Park.  Michael's son Albert - my great Grandfather - served in both World War I and World War II, and he passed away in 1971, which is 4 years before I was born in Pittsfield.  My grandfather Henry briefly served in the U.S. Navy during World War II until the war ended, and he would worry about my father who was a born in Pittsfield during the war.  My father, Bob, served as the last Chairman of the Berkshire County Commission, which was abolished by Beacon Hill effective mid-2000, but there are still seven county governments and other regional governments left in Massachusetts, but no such county/regional entity in Berkshire County.  Then there is me - Jon Melle - aka "Jonny Appleseed" - who is NOT a Marxist because I know that there is no economic system that has ever worked in human history, and who also knows that the U.S. economic system is really a rigged casino-like financial shell game where the ELITES move vast sums of money around and around amongst only themselves to always get what they want: MONEY & POWER! - which are two things that Jon Melle will never have in his lifetime, but I am happy being a Have-Not because Jon Melle needs to sleep well at night with a good conscience by not hurting anyone unlike so many ELITES.  The Almighty Dollar doesn't appeal to me, nor does the Swamp.  My life is too short, and some apples are too sweet, especially the ones from Melle, Piedmont, Italy.

Jonathan Melle

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December 29, 2021

I didn't ask for my dad to be a politician in corrupt Pittsfield politics whereby I, along with my father, was persecuted by the Nuciforo network for years on end of my then young adult life; I am now 46-years-old.  I didn't ask for a fellow Soldier to hold a steel bar to my head threatening my life in the U.S. Army Europe, where I was given illegal orders to drive a 5-ton Army vehicle over winter roads after being sleep deprived, which was one month after a sleep deprived Soldier jackknifed a 5-ton Army vehicle into a German mother's car while driving her son to an elementary school, which resulted in their deaths and the Soldier being court-martialed and sent to military prison.  I didn't ask for any of it, but it all happened.  So, STUFF IT about my playing the victim card to collect my VA earned benefits.  I, Jon Melle, served our country honorably and received the regards of a U.S. President named George W. Bush.

Jonathan A. Melle

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December 30, 2021

When I am being bullied/threatened, I should not piss off the bully/bullies, but rather (sarcasm) I should drop to my knees and then grab my ankles and then say, "Thank you, Asshole(s)!"  How dare I have a Personality Disorder after dealing with the conspiratorial Nuciforo network in Pittsfield politics, abusive U.S. Army personnel, being wrongly indicted on two felonies I was found NOT guilty of, and all of the other difficult people and situations Jon Melle has had to go through in my life of mental illness and disability.  I never said or wrote that I am always the victim.  I will say that I do NOT live a normal life!

Jonathan A. Melle

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January 7, 2022

I have, indeed, volunteered at the VAMC Manchester, NH.  I have, indeed, given my personal money to charity, even when I was honorably serving in the U.S. Army.  I have, indeed, helped out my family and friends when they needed my help and to help them to get ahead in life.  I have, indeed, written to my elected officials to both praise and criticize them.  I do, indeed, care about people, my fellow Veterans, and society.  I feel peace of mind living in my so-called upper middle-class Town of Amherst, New Hampshire, unlike when I lived in inner-city Manchester, NH, for 4 years of my then young adult life from early-2005 to early-2009.  It would be one of my worst nightmares in my life if I had to live in "The Ring of Poverty" that surrounds inner-city Pittsfield Massachusetts, which I long feared that I would end up being stuck there as an adult.  I don't understand how inner-city Pittsfield hit rock bottom with poverty, blight, violent crime, Level 5 public schools, political corruption, decades of population loss and so many lost living-wage jobs, excessively high municipal finances with a shrinking tax base, severe economic inequality with the Mayor, Linda Tyer, living in a mansion in a millionaires-only gated community within a few feet of the Hancock border, and so on.  Lastly, my wish is for everyone to be able to have peace of mind by having a rewarding, happy and healthy life for themselves and their loved ones.

Jonathan A. Melle

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January 17, 2022

Sleep deprivation with an inordinate amount of 24-hour duty shifts in the field in freezing mid-January 2001 Germany with me, Jon Melle, receiving and having to disobey very similar illegal orders that could have resulted in innocent civilian deaths one month after a sleep deprived Soldier drove a 5-ton U.S. Army truck that jackknifed and killed a German mother driving her son to an elementary school in Germany where I was honorably serving after a fellow Soldier threatened my life by holding a steel bar to my head, but when I complained to my immediate Chain of Command, my black Sergeant and black Staff Sergeant told me that only I, Jon Melle, was going to be written up for the incident because I told my fellow Soldier to Go To Hell while he was threatening to maim and/or kill me, then me going to JAG and the 2 Star U.S. Army-Europe General's Inspector General's Office with my written documentation of the abuse I was enduring, and then me receiving retribution from my Unit for months-on-end.  My mental and physical health needed constant attention with me going to the psychiatric unit and various hospitals in Germany where even the German Doctors fought with my U.S. Army Command about my physical and mental health.  The White House sending me a letter stating that the U.S. President sends me his regards and the then President, Bush 2, ordering me a hearing during the Summer of 2004 at the VA Central Office that is very close to the White House in Washington, D.C.  Me, Jon Melle, being a 100% service-connected disabled Veteran.  When I receive a medical bill, the hospital statement reads that our grateful country is happy to serve you [Jon Melle].  Is that good enough for you?  Lastly, I wish to thank you for your military service.

Jonathan A. Melle

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February 4, 2022

Hello "Markus Aurelius",

Once again, I wish to thank you for your military service.  Your post was very hurtful.  I wish to write again that I was ordered to perform several consecutive 24-hour duty shifts in mid-January 2001 in the freezing field in Germany, a fellow Soldier who was abusing/bullying me threatened my life by him holding a steel bar to my head and I told him to "Go to Hell" and when the incident was over, I reported it directly to my (black) Sergeant and (black) Staff Sergeant, and they both said to me that only I was to be punished for disrespecting a fellow Soldier, and then in my sleep deprived condition, they (illegally) ordered me to drive a 5-ton U.S. Army truck over civilian roads in Germany where one month prior a U.S. Army- serving in Germany, Europe - Soldier fell asleep behind the wheel of a U.S. Army 5-ton truck and jackknifed a German mother driving her child to an elementary school in Germany.  That Soldier was court-martialed and sent to military prison.  I had a mental health breakdown.  I became sick and I was sent to the U.S. Army psychiatric unit, as well as the German Hospitals whereby the medical staff fought with my U.S. Army Command about my condition.  I received an Honorable Discharge, and a couple years later I received a letter from the White House saying that the U.S. President, George W. Bush, sends me his regards and that he ordered me a hearing at the VA Central Office that is close to the White House in Washington, D.C. during the Summer of 2004.  I am a 100% service-connected disabled Veteran.  When I go to the Hospital my statement reads that a grateful country is happy to serve me.  I am a respected Veteran.  Lastly, despite your remarks, I see you as a brother Veteran and I am thankful for your service.

Best wishes,

Jonathan Alan Melle

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February 5, 2022

I thank all of you and/or your family members for your military service.  I don't wish to complain.  I thought I did the right thing by our country by protecting innocent human lives after a sleepy Soldier killed a mother who was driving her son to an elementary school in Germany with a U.S. Army 5-ton truck when I was given a similar order one month later in mid-January of 2001.  I am sorry that I couldn't handle all of the abuse I endured during my honorable military service in Germany, Europe.  I have endured unusual event in my then young adult life.  My dad was a Berkshire County Commissioner when I was 21.5 years old to nearly 25 years old from January 1st, 1997 - June 30, 2000.  Nuciforo and his conspiratorial network bullied my dad and I for many years back then.  I had a mental health breakdown in the U.S. Army around the time when the U.S. presidency transitioned from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush in mid-January 2001 when I was just about 25.5 years old.  I understand that all of it happened in my life a long time ago now, as it is now early-February of 2022.  I am not delusional.  Everything I "complain" about really did happen to me (and my political activist dad back then).  I understand that Soldiers have lost their lives and suffered worse traumatic events than myself, and I am grateful for their sacrifices for God and Country.  I am also grateful for the VA and all of the services I receive from the VA.  I love our country, and I wish to let everyone know how blessed I am to be a fellow brother Veteran to all of my brothers and sisters who served honorably in the United States Armed Services.  I believe in Human Rights and Civil Rights for All under Democracy and the rule of law.  I will always support politicians who are good men and women who will stand for our country's best ideals so that we may all live with Liberty and Justice for All Peoples and people of our country and the world.

Jonathan Alan Melle

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March 5, 2022

I served our country honorably in the United States Army, and I earned my VA benefits; thank you.  I am very grateful for your honorable military service, including your combat duty, and for you paying federal income taxes through your hard work.  I tried to be independent, but my mental health condition(s) disability and the unusual circumstances I experienced in my life, such as during and after my father was a Pittsfield area politician when I was a young man, left me at risk of homelessness and other socioeconomic risks.  I finally have a little peace of mind in my life, but you repeatedly criticize me - I will turn 47-years-old this Summer of 2022 - for finally being healthy and secure in my life.  What the Hell do you want me to do?  Should I shit on North Street, and then wave to Mayor Linda Tyer when she would drive by me on her way to and then from Pittsfield City Hall in her Lexus luxury car?  Thank goodness I am finally O.K., but if Putin deploys his nuclear weapons against us, then I will be vaporized along with everyone else out there.  Then you wouldn't be able to post anymore about Jon Melle receiving his VA benefits, which you say is government assistance, because you and I would both be vaporized in a horrific nuclear war.  I hope that you are able to keep criticizing Jon Melle, and that there will never be a nuclear war.

Jonathan A. Melle

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March 5, 2022

I am very proud of your disabled son for his healthy path of recovery.  You are a wonderful parent.  Thank you for sharing your story.  I am grown up enough to take it, but it is easier said than done for me, of course.  Your son is a better man than me, but please note that I tried to be gainfully employed and do better many times throughout my adult and post-military life.  I have volunteered my time at the Manchester NH VAMC and the Animal Rescue League.  I take care of my 13.5-year-old dog, who is my official Emotional Support Animal.  I am a peer with my fellow Veterans at the VA.  I am a good neighbor and law-abiding citizen with no criminal record.  I hope that I am not all that bad in our society whereby almost everyone is out for the Almighty Dollar for themselves, while Putin is threatening to vaporize us all with his nuclear weapons.  I would rather blog posters criticize Jon Melle everyday than Putin starting a nuclear war.  You may call me whatever sarcastic name you wish in your blog posts, but I ask not to be called Jon Putin, please; thank you.

Jon Melle

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March 5, 2022

Yes. Patrick Fennell, who is a Republican and proud Trump supporter (I will never support Trump in American politics and government), answers some of my political emails, and I reply to his political letters to the Editor.  He is an Army Veteran, too.  He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and he is represented by Elizabeth Warren, Maryland Markey, PAC Man Richie Neal, Chrome Dome Adam Hinds, Shitty Pigpen, and Town leaders who honor the late-Communist W.E.B. DuBois, who personally befriended and praised two Communist Dictators named Stalin and Chairman Mao who killed well over 100 million innocent people and Peoples, which is over 6 times more innocent people and Peoples that Hitler killed (17 million), including in the Holocaust (6 million Jewish People and millions of other people and Peoples).  Housatonic, which is part of Great Barrington, has cancer causing toxic brown tap water with no remediation in sight.  Patrick Fennell and I enjoy writing to each other political emails to complain about the misguided neoliberal federal, state and local career politicians who systemically screw over and lie to the people and taxpayers they supposedly represent in American government.  Lastly, the Town of Great Barrington is one of the most messed up municipal governments in human history for supporting W.E.B. DuBois, who openly hated both Great Barrington and the United States of America!  Go figure.

Jonathan A. Melle

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March 5, 2022

Hello Patrick Fennell,

If a famous and historic white man who was born in Great Barrington was personal friends with Hitler and praised his political leadership whereby 17 million innocent people and Peoples, including the 6 million Jewish People and millions of other people and Peoples, were murdered in the Holocaust, would the Town of Great Barrington have named their middle school after their native son, as well as planning to erect a statue of him in a public place?

Just because W.E.B. DuBois was a famous and historic black man who was born in Great Barrington does not mean the Town should be honoring him due to his friendships and praises for Communist Dictators named Stalin and Chairman Mao, who combined murdered over 6 times more innocent people and Peoples than Hitler.  W.E.B. DuBois did not stand for Human Rights for All people and Peoples.

I love my country, but I fear my government because the government has a history of being right, wrong and indifferent.  For example, President Joe Biden spent well over $10 trillion federal dollars in his first year in the Oval Office, and Republicans in U.S. Congress are asking his administration for an accounting of where all of the Biden Buck$ went to.  After the 2022 midterm elections, the Republicans in U.S. Congress will be running the Congressional Committees in 2023 and 2024, and the Biden administration will have to answer for their excessive federal spending binge.

Best wishes,

Jonathan A. Melle

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March 16, 2022

Hello Rinaldo [Del Gallo III],

When I talk to people about Putin's war against Ukraine, most people say that the news media is mostly lying to us because the people and Peoples who live in Ukraine are being slaughtered by the Russian military forces.  It is not at all a fair fight because Russia's military has many more lethal weapons and troops than Ukraine, while the men who are being conscripted to fight for Ukraine are fighting with rifles and other weapons that do not come close to matching Russia's military power.  I praise the people and Peoples of Ukraine for resisting Putin in 2022, who is acting similar to Hitler in 1939, but in the end, Putin is slaughtering thousands of Ukraine's civilians and the less powerful Ukrainian military forces.

I understand that you advocate for Men's Rights, and that you often criticize Women's Rights both at home and abroad.  My belief is that Men and Women both get the proverbial shaft in our society in different ways.  My view of Men and Women and that there are good people and bad people on both sides of the human gender divide.  When a man enters into a relationship with a woman and vice versa, I hope that both sides will respect each other instead of each other engage in conflict and/or worse, violence.  I don't like it when a man feels he should be dominant, nor do I like it when a woman feels that she is always right about everything.  Getting married and living with each other costs couples millions of dollars over 40-plus years of marriage, but if the married couple has a healthy relationship, both the man and woman are usually better off financially for it, and both the man and woman usually live longer lives than isolated, lonely and emotionally insecure people.

Best wishes,

Jonathan Melle

P.S. My last name Melle comes from the Town of Melle, Piedmont, Italy.  Please Google: Melle Piedmont Italy to learn about where my family came from in the 1880s prior to living in Pittsfield Massachusetts where my Great Great Grandfather Michael P. Melle fathered my Great Grandfather Albert Henry Melle, who fought in WW1 for the U.S.A., similar to your Grandfather who fought in WW1 for Italy, and who served again for the U.S.A. in WW2, and who passed away in Pittsfield in 1971.  My Grandfather Henry William Melle served in WW2 like his father.  My father, Bob, was a Pittsfield area politician.  I am a 100 percent service connected disabled Veteran, but I was never deployed in combat.

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Letter: "What about the men forced to fight in Ukraine?"

The Berkshire Eagle, March 15, 2022

To the editor: While we are quick to observe negative things that disproportionately affect women, we seldom do this for men.

Men are far more likely to be incarcerated, have problems in school, have hypertension, commit suicide, or suffer workplace injuries and death than woman. Men live shorter lives.

While listening to NPR, I couldn’t help but cringe when the male announcer said of Ukraine, “The refugees are mostly women and children,” as if to suggest the women had it harder. That is because, as the female cohost said, the men of “military age” (18-60) are not allowed to leave the country. Despite this being a serious human rights violation, it has escaped criticism.

Men are being prohibited from fleeing the Ukraine en masse at the borders, separated from their wives and children. The purpose of this is to be able to conscript men in the military. It quite literally divests men over ownership of their own lives and control as to whether they will be subject to injury.

The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13(2) states, “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own.” Article 30 says, “Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.”

There are many reasons a man might choose not to fight. He may be a pacifist. His religion might forbid it. He may not believe in the war. He might believe in the war, but think resistance is futile. He might feel a greater duty to stay alive to support his children or parents.

My grandfather, Rinaldo Del Gallo Sr., immigrated to the United States and went for a visit back home to Italy. While visiting, he was drafted by the Italian army and nearly died in the Australian Alps in a literal uphill battle in pointless bloodshed in a World War (unlike the second) where nobody was right. Later in life, we believe his health ailments might have had a lot to do with his experiences during World War I. So it is personal when I hear men are not allowed to flee a country but must rather stay and fight in a war they do not wish to participate in.

Rinaldo Del Gallo III, Pittsfield

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May 15, 2022

Hello All,

I explained to the mental health group I have been attending that I use written aids and my political writings to communicate with people when I need to make appointments with the in person schedulers, in person bank tellers, and so on, I have a card in my wallet that tells public safety personnel that I am autistic and that I have difficulty communicating with them in stressful situations, and that I am unable to be gainfully employed because of my difficulty communicating with my past workplace staff, which leads me to have anxiety, and in some very stressful situations, involuntary emotional outbursts.  When I was in high school after the movie Rain Man was released, a few of my classmates likened me to the autistic character in the movie that starred Tom Cruise as the autistic man's brother.  The online news article makes sense to me, as it did with fellow autistic workers.  I ask that you please read it; thank you.

Best wishes,

Jonathan Melle

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"Autistic worker makes sign to hang in office after allegedly getting disciplined for being a ‘bad communicator’"

By Brooke Sjoberg, The Daily Dot, May 12, 2022

In response to allegedly getting disciplined at work for perceived poor communication, an autistic TikTok creator created a sign alerting co-workers to their neurological difference and shared it on the platform, where commenters are sharing similar experiences.

The autistic worker's sign reads: "I'm autistic. I prefer direct, literal and detailed communication. If I am: not making eye contact; not greeting you back; not understanding your social cues, etc.; there is no malicious intent. it is the autism. Thank you for understanding."

"I made an autism sign at work because I got booked for disciplinary meeting for being a bad communicator," the TikToker captioned the video.

Those who shared similar experiences wrote that they have also been misunderstood at work.

"Also I got pulled into the office for 'isolating myself' and people were 'worried'," one commenter wrote. "I was just sitting in a different break room for some quiet time."

"I got called out for 'needing to have my hand held' when really I just needed clear instructions/direct communication so I knew I was doing the job right," another commenter wrote.

"Not me being told I have 'negative body language' and being reprimanded for not saying 'good morning' every single day," a third said.

In a follow-up video, the aforementioned autistic worker addressed some commenters who they said were asking if they are professionally- or self-diagnosed.

"The funniest thing about the comment section of my autism sign video is the people who are asking me, 'are you self-diagnosed? Are you formally diagnosed?'" they say in the video. "Do you think neurotypical people would make a sign like that? Do you think that would happen? Do you think a neurotypical person would do that?"

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June 7, 2022

Hello Dan,

Dan, thank you for publishing my letter on my behalf of your awesome blog covering Pittsfield politics and beyond.  Next Tuesday, 6/14, will be when some of the City Councilors will vote to pass Mayor Linda Tyer's record breaking municipal operating budget for fiscal year 2023 that begins on 7/1/2022.  What if the many predictions of a brutal economic recession come to pass in 2023?  If revenues dry up with increasing U.S. inflation and a so-called economic hurricane that is predicted to wipe out businesses and jobs, how will Pittsfield pay its financial obligations?  Pittsfield has been there a couple of times before, and it did not go well.  Why is Mayor Linda Tyer's budget document predicting drastic population loss in Pittsfield, while she is increasing Pittsfield's financial obligations?  It does not make any sense - even to a young child learning how to count coins in kindergarten.  Mayor Linda Tyer's reliance on public debt will soon cause serious financial problems as the Federal Reserve and financial lenders are raising interest rates.  In brief, Mayor Linda Tyer's budget is full of a lot of holes.  It needs to be voted against, but in Pittsfield politics up is down and down is up.

Why are Beacon Hill lawmakers still sitting on billions upon billions of dollars in state surplus cash plus $2.3 billion in "Biden Bucks"?  That is the real hot button issue that Mayor Linda Tyer and the City Council should be raising instead of always increasing municipal spending by 5 percent every fiscal year since the mid-1980s when three-time MVP Larry Bird was winning NBA Championships for the Boston Celtics.  Where are Pittsfield State Representative Trippy Country Buffet and Pittsfield State Senator Chrome Dome Adam Hinds on Boston's billions?  If I was in Trippy and Chrome Dome's shoes, I would be fighting to give my hometown legislative district a cut of the surplus state cash to lower costs for my economically distressed and unequal community.  Moreover, Beacon Hill lawmakers have not passed any tax relief bills for the middle class, including Senior Citizens, Veterans, the disabled, working-class commuters who are paying $5/gallon for gas, and so on, so far this year of 2022.  Why isn't the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) writing editorials about Boston's billions not going to Western Massachusetts and beyond?

My dad, Bob, said to thank you, Dan, for your well wishes, and he sends the same well wishes back to you, Dan.  When my father was a Berkshire County Commissioner over two decades ago, he was retaliated against for his public advocacy in state and local government in Massachusetts.  While we moved away from the beautiful Berkshires over 18 years ago now, my dad and I are both thankful for your public advocacy for Pittsfield and the Berkshires and beyond for the proverbial little guy living in our native hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  I know how you feel when you write for the people and taxpayers, only for state and local corrupt career politicians to continue on with their "Business as usual" tax and spend policies that hurt the very people and taxpayers they represent in City Hall and the State House.  I admire and support your blog, despite our political disagreements - most recently about Berkshire County District Andrea Harrington, who is running for reelection to a second term in this year of 2022.  I am grateful that you are a good friend to the Melle family, whose name is named after Melle, Piedmont, Italy, which is a small commune in northwest Italy near Switzerland and France.  Melle is derived from the words Apple and Honey.  I hope that all of our lives will be as delicious as an Apple and as sweet as Honey.

Best wishes,

Jon Melle

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June 22, 2022

Along the lines from the song line "I like New York in June.  How about you?": "I like the Red Sox in June? How about you?"  I hope they play ball like they are this month in July, August, September, possibly in October, and possibly in early-November!  My dad & I have tickets to Fenway Park to see the Blue Jays versus the Red Sox on my 47th birthday next month.  My dad & I have watched the Pittsfield Suns versus the Nashua Silver Knights at historic Holman Stadium.  They will play against each other at historic Wahconah Park this Thursday evening.  My dad saw Chuck Garivaltis, his 1962 PHS classmate the late-Mark Belanger, Tom Grieve, and other legendary Pittsfield baseball players play ball back in the old days.  Pittsfield only had one high school back then, along with St. Joseph High School, which closed a couple of years ago.  My dad's 60-year PHS will be held online this year of 2022.  I only went to my 10-year PHS class reunion back in 2003 before I moved to Southern New Hampshire the next year.  Next year of 2023, it will be 30 years since I graduated from PHS.  I still have my 1993 Pittsfield High School diploma, which I like to look at now and then.

Jonathan A. Melle

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December 3, 2022

I was sad to read the obituary of my political friend Patrick Fennell of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.  I always enjoyed reading his political letters and emails over the years.  I fondly remember going to political meetings with my dad, Bob, who is a former Berkshire County Commissioner, and seeing and hearing Patrick Fennell speak for the public good of the people and taxpayers of Berkshire County and beyond many years ago.  Patrick Fennell life of 65 years included his honorably military service and public advocacy.  I will miss him - as Patrick Fennell was a good political friend of mine for many years of my adult life - as I am 47 years old.

Jonathan A. Melle

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October 7, 2023

I learned that my 30 year PHS class reunion will take place on the evening after Thanksgiving 2023 on November 24th, 2023, at 5:30 pm, at the GEAA in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  I wont be attending.  I used to have a Facebook account years ago, but I canceled it years ago.  I became upset that some of the people, including some of my peers from Pittsfield High School who I new in my teenage years over 3 decades ago, unfriended me over my comments about the recurring abuse I endured in Pittsfield politics starting when I was only 20 years old during the Spring of 1996 when my dad, Bob, successfully campaigned for the elected position of Berkshire County Commissioner (1997 - mid-2000), which has continued over the past 27.5 years of my adult life - even after I moved away from Pittsfield, Massachusetts in the early-Spring 2004 when I moved to Amherst, New Hampshire to live with my family who previously relocated their residences.

How would my PHS class of 1993 classmates understand that I am a persecuted person at the hands of Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior aka "Luciforo" aka "Pittsfield's Pot King" and his conspiratorial network of bullies?  If I attended my PHS 30 year class reunion, my peers would ask me questions, tell me that I am a horrible person, and say that I am messed up.  It would hurt me - Jon Melle - to be criticized by the people who I attended Pittsfield High School with many years ago because I like all of them all of these many years later.  I love Pittsfield because it is my native hometown and I have many warm memories in the beautiful Berkshires from the days of my youth.

I wish that I never had to know Nuciforo and his mean-spirited clique because I would otherwise attend my PHS 30 year class reunion to see my peers next month.  But I have to function and live my middle-aged life with peace of mind, so I am going to stay home with my family in Amherst, NH during the Thanksgiving 2023 holiday weekend.  I like my PHS peers, and I love Pittsfield, of course.  Thank you for your understanding.

Jonathan A. Melle

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October 7, 2023

I did not ask for my dad, Bob, to run for elected office in the Berkshires when I was only 20 years old in the Spring 1996.  I did not ask for Nuciforo to conspiratorially and abusively bully me over the past 27.5 years of my adult life because Nuciforo has a vendetta against my father, Bob.  I could not possibly expect that my PHS 1993 classmates would be able to take the time out of their own adult lives to understand that I am a persecuted person in Pittsfield politics due to "Luciforo" aka "Pittsfield's Pot King's" mean-spirited actions.  It all just falls directly on my - Jon Melle's - head because my only crime in my life is being the son of a former politician from Berkshire County named Bob Melle.

Jonathan A. Melle

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November 14, 2023

My one big wish may sound silly.  It is to live in a world whereby everyone has a chance to live a happy and healthy life.

I watched Elizabeth Mitchell (Banks)'s Press Your Life on ABC prime-time tonight (Tuesday, 11/14/2023).  Erin from Pittsfield, Massachusetts was a contestant on the TV show.  Elizabeth and Erin talked about Pittsfield during a segment of the game-show.  I thought it was cool.

My older brother graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 with Elizabeth Mitchell (Banks), along with Dr. Kim Cobb who is a climate scientist who is interviewed on BBC News, and along with Alec MacGIllis who is a journalist at the Washington Post and other area newspapers and he is an author of political books.  I always tell my brother that the PHS Class of 1992 is the most impressive one.

I graduated from PHS the following year in the Class of 1993.  My 30-year PHS Class Reunion is next week on Friday, 11/24/2023, at the GEAA, but I won't be attending because of Nuciforo's 27.5-years-long persecution of me and my dad in Pittsfield politics. I send my love all of my PHS classmates.  I am sad that around 10 of my PHS classmates have passed away over the past 30 years.  I heard that a table is set up in their honor at everyone of my PHS class reunions.  The PHS Class of 1993 is the sweetest one.

I played Trivia tonight at Uno with my dad, Bob, and a friend.  We had fun.  Life is short.  Please take some time to enjoy it.

Jonathan A. Melle

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November 15, 2023

My best friend from PHS emailed me: "Sorry to hear about you choosing not to sttend the hs reunion. You will be missed!".  My reply is that I will miss attending my PHS 1993 classmates, too.  What Nuciforo's persecution of me in Pittsfield politics over the past 27.5 years did to me and my dad, Bob, was very painful.  The things - whisper campaigns - that they said about me in Pittsfield are one-sided, half-truths vicious rumors.  The way some people look at me in Pittsfield is very abusive and hurtful.  When I was a then young man living in Pittsfield 2 decades ago, Nuciforo blacklisted me from employment.  When I had a Facebook account years ago, people unfriended me when I wrote about what I heard what was said about me by the Nuciforo network in Pittsfield.  Some people wrote that I am a messed up person.  Others wrote that I am a horrible person.  I canceled my Facebook account years ago.  What I think of Nuciforo is akin to when I have acid reflux or when I have to vomit.  If you were in my - Jon Melle's - shoes, would you go back to Pittsfield to be persecuted by the Nuciforo network?  I send my 1993 PHS classmates my love from Amherst, NH, when they meet for the 30-year PHS class reunion next week on Friday, 11/24/2023, at the GEAA.  I wish they understood what happened to me in Pittsfield politics in the decades since we graduated from PHS together in 1993.  It is a lot to take in - even for yours truly!

Jonathan A. Melle

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July 28, 2024

The 83-year-old man whom I befriended at my local diner passed away.  We would love to see each other at the counter and we loved to talk about finance and his investments.  He would give his money to young adults for their education, and teach them about saving and investing money.  When the young adults did well in school or college, they would say that my elderly friend would be proud of them for their academic achievements.

Life is short.  When I lived in the Berkshires as a youth and young adult, my brother and I still talk about our long gone elderly friends back the 1980's and 1990's decades.  My dad, Bob, who was politician back then in the Berkshires, is now 80.  My mom, who was a public school teacher back then in the Berkshires has Stage 4 cancer for life and she is undergoing aggressive cancer treatments.  My family is from Pittsfield (Massachusetts), which is a cancer cluster small city full of GE's industrial chemicals called PCBs.

I am 49 years old now.  I hope that I will live around another 30 years or so, but one never knows when one is going to pass on.  Life is short.  It is sad when one loses a friend.

Best wishes, 

Jonathan A. Melle

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August 10, 2024

I posted a reply on the blog named Planet Valenti:

ALL FACTS:

I received an honorable discharge. The U.S. President (GWB) ordered me a hearing at the VA Central Office in Washington, D.C. over 20 years ago now in the Summer 2004. I am a 100 percent p/t service-connected disabled Veteran.

Jonathan Alan Melle

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I cannot find it.  I took my last Lisinopril pill this morning (Wednesday, September 18, 2024).  As of Thursday, September 19, 2024, I have no pills of Lisinopril to take.  I have high blood pressure.  If I have a medical emergency, I will have the VA pharmacy to thank.  I would appreciate it if the VA pharmacy would please refill my bottle of Lisinopril pills.  I am looking at my Lisinopril bottle and it is empty tonight (Wednesday, 09/18/2024).  You guys suck for leaving me without my prescription medication.  I did not even receive a telephone call today (W., 9/18).  Thank you for NOT caring about me.  I really hate it when the bureaucracy is more important that the Veteran at the VAMC pharmacy.  I am sending this secure message out to everyone who I know.  Screw you, VA pharmacy!

Jonathan A. Melle

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More to come! ...

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