Sandy Hook Charity Industry: Follow the Money

All right, I clicked on the link you provided and I can see that Riverside and Berkshire are listed as neighborhoods in Newtown. But they are combined with other areas you already listed: as Botsford/Berkshire, and Cedarhust/ Riverside.

However if you look at the shape of the map, it’s the same as the shape of the map of Newtown on Google maps which includes all of those areas. The distinct areas are not acknowledged – such as Newtown Town Center, Dodgington/ Hattertown, Cedarhurst/ Riverside, etc. It’s all just the borough of Newtown, and its population is 1,973. So either there is an egregious error on Google maps and also all of the census data, or else there is an egregious error on the neighborhood scout site.

From
http://www.newtown-ct.gov/Public_Documents/NewtownCT_WebDocs/about:

Newtown was established in 1711 and is comprised of the Borough, Sandy Hook, Hawleyville, Botsford and Dodgingtown “neighborhoods”. * (City-data lists these parts of Newtown as “Botsford, Newtown, CT,” “Sandy Hook, Newtown, CT,” etc. The 1,973 population of Newtown on city-data includes these boroughs.)
The Borough of Newtown, located in the central area of Newtown encompasses an area of approximately 1,252 acres or one square mile. The Borough was incorporated in 1824 by an act of the Connecticut General Assembly. It is a unique self-governing municipal unit, one of only nine Boroughs located in the State of Connecticut.

Wikipedia states that a a “self-governing municipal unit” is synonymous with a “municipal corporation.”

From the legal dictionary (http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Municipal+Corporation):

“A municipal corporation is a city, town, village, or borough that has governmental powers. A municipality is a city, town, village, or, in some states, a borough…Home rule gives municipalities the power to determine their own goals without interference from the state legislature or state agencies. It gives municipalities room to experiment with new approaches to government without first seeking approval from the state. It also allows municipalities to act more quickly on issues of local concern because they do not have to seek approval for their actions from the state legislature…The governmental authority most commonly exercised by municipalities is the Police Power. The term police power does not refer to the authority to create police departments, although it does include that power. Police power is the power of state and local governments to enact laws governing health, safety, morals, and general public welfare…Municipal corporations are an important feature of the political structure of the United States. Incorporating a municipality gives it the freedom to form a society that is distinct from other localities in the state and around the country.”

Thus, the unprecedented laws that Newtown has been able to pass concerning sealing of crime scene evidence and classifying FBI records.

Beth D.,

That is a very informative link you provided about municipal law. And interesting quote:

“Governance charters contain provisions that differ from the general state law. When this happens the courts will usually find that the charter language takes precedence for that particular municipality. The Vermont Supreme Court has held that “whether the legislatively-adopted town charter or the statute is controlling is a matter of statutory construction,” and that “where two statutes deal with the same subject matter and one is general and the other specific, the more specific statue controls.” The charter will supersede state law since a charter is law that is more specific to a particular town.”

(Significant: THE CHARTER WILL SUPERCEDE STATE LAW.)

But it also states this:
“Almost everything in this publication may vary for municipalities with a charter – so before relying on any statement about the general law, you must check your governance charter – if you have one!”

(The Newtown charter of 1961 claims rights and privileges it enjoyed in 1711, the very moment the town was established, and before there even was a United States)!

And this is a particularly interesting quote:

“Sovereign immunity. The doctrine of sovereign immunity protects the state and its subdivisions – including municipalities – from lawsuits except when the immunity has been expressly waived by statute.

The doctrine of sovereign immunity is generally seen as outdated – based on the feudal system where the king was the law and therefore could do no wrong. For that reason courts have worked to limit the application of sovereign immunity.”

Could THIS be a reason Wolfgang would not be able to bring a lawsuit to Newtown? An expert on municipal law should check into this!

As for the confusing census numbers, I found this under the WIkipedia entry for “New England Town”:

Census-designated places[edit]
To fill in some of the “place” data, the Census Bureau sometimes recognizes census-designated places (CDPs) within New England towns…There are numerous instances where the Census Bureau recognizes the built-up area around a town center as a CDP, resulting in a CDP that bears the same name as the town. In these cases, data for the CDP is, in general, meaningless to local residents, who seldom draw any particular distinction between the built-up area around the town center and outlying areas of the town. A local source citing data for such a community will almost always use the data for the entire town, not the CDP…At the same time, not all built-up places of significant population are recognized as CDPs. The Census Bureau has historically recognized relatively few CDPs within urbanized areas in particular. Many towns located in such areas do not contain any recognized CDPs, and will thus be completely absent from Census materials presenting population of “places”. Greenwich, Connecticut is one prominent example. While the Town of Greenwich appears in MCD materials, the Census Bureau does not recognize Greenwich as a “place”.

(Why would the census bureau not recognize Greenwich as a place)???

Connecticut[edit]
Main article: Administrative divisions of Connecticut
Connecticut contains 169 incorporated towns. Put into terms that are equivalent to the other New England states, 20 are cities/boroughs and 149 are towns. (As discussed in the Cities section of Other types of municipalities in New England above, the relationship between towns and cities in Connecticut is different from the other New England states, at least on paper; thus, in the technical sense, all 169 of the above municipalities are really towns, with 20 overlaid by a coextensive city or borough of the same name.)[14] Together, these 169 municipalities cover the entire state. There is no unincorporated territory, but, as in all New England states, there are a fair number of unincorporated, named communities that lie within the incorporated territory of a municipality.

From Wikipedia article “Administrative divisions of Connecticut:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Connecticut

“New England towns, particularly in Connecticut, have broad home rule, and have powers comparable to those that a city in other states would normally have. There are advantages and disadvantages to this system: residents have a greater voice in the decision-making process over local issues. On the other hand, the state’s delegation of broad powers to the towns sometimes results in bitter rivalries between towns stemming from projects and programs that encompass multiple towns, as town residents and officials have historically placed local interests ahead of the interests of the region or state as a whole.

Connecticut is divided geographically into eight counties, but these counties do not have any associated government structure. The Connecticut General Assembly abolished all county governments on October 1, 1960.[2] The counties continued to have sheriffs until 2000, when the sheriffs’ offices were abolished and replaced with state marshals through a ballot measure attached to the 2000 presidential election.

The dissolution of county governments in 1960 created a vacuum of power at the regional level, which created problems when it came to land use and infrastructure planning. Because the power once reserved for county governments was now in the hands of municipal administrations, major land use, environmental, and infrastructure issues often pitted one town against another, resulting in little or no progress. Complicating this, the state constitution delegates a large portion of the state’s authority to the towns.”

(The Newtown charter was established in 1961, right after this vacuum of power. Great time for military/industrial complex to swoop in an establish itself there, especially since Nazi forces were already going strong in Fairfield Hills State Hospital and Fairfield University MK Ultra experiments and contracts with the Pentagon).

And this article, “History of Connecticut” Wikipedia is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Connecticut

Some quotes:

in the 21st century it is known for jet engines, nuclear submarines, and advanced pharmaceuticals.

Connecticut built the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) and other essential weapons for The Pentagon. The increased job market gave the state the highest per capita income at the beginning of the 1960s.

Fairfield County, Connecticut’s Gold Coast, was a favorite residence of many executives who work in New York City. It attracted scores of corporate headquarters from New York especially in the 1970s, when Connecticut had no state income tax.

Connecticut workers were very well-paid, many of them in defense industries building nuclear submarines at Electric Boat shipyards, helicopters at Sikorsky , and jet engines at Pratt & Whitney.

The Republican Party was mildly liberal, typified by Senator Prescott Bush, a wealthy Yankee whose son and grandson both became president from their new conservative base in Texas.

In the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 65 state residents were killed. The vast majority were Fairfield County residents who were working in the World Trade Center. Greenwich lost 12 residents, Stamford and Norwalk each lost nine and Darien lost six.[56] A state memorial was later set up at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport. The New York City skyline can be seen from the park.

(People area blaming Obama for a gun control agenda at Sandy Hook, but look at how every conspiracy eventually connects back to Prescott Bush and family!!!)