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There's a new letter at Casino-Friend.com that attacks Oak Point residents again and ends with "Thanks for changing our town forever, and in the meantime, move back to where you came from.".

The writer says that those of us who support the resort casino are "uneducated and ill informed". He also tells an apocryphal story of meeting a bellboy at Foxwoods who admits to being a convicted felon (implying that a resort here will hire convicts) and who warns that a casino will ruin our town.

What follows is my response to that letter:

Uneducated and ill-informed?

Let's see, where does a supposed "convicted felon" now working as a bellboy likely fall on the "educated and informed" scale?

And those of us who aren't life long Middleboro residents should pack our bags and leave? Our experience in other towns facing the same sorts of problems as Middleboro doesn't qualify us to have an opinion?

Oak Point residents, who don't use town services for trash, snow plowing, schools, road repair and so on, should pay extra taxes?

Does any of that sound "educated and informed"?

Mr, Johnson insists that the deal will not keep up with inflation - is he somehow aware of the details of a contract the rest of us haven't seen? In fact, keeping up with inflation was stated to be one of the more important points heading into the second round of negotiation - if that is his only real objection, I have confidence that will be met in the final agreement.

I'm sure Mr. Johnson has real conviction in his belief that a casino doesn't belong here. I think unfortunately he might believe too many of the one-sided "facts" presented at CasinoFacts.org. We are not Foxwoods, or Mohegan Sun. We know the mistakes that were made there and our Selectmen and our lawyers are working very hard to make sure the same mistakes don't happen here.

And no, Mr. Johnson, I don't plan on moving back where I came from. I'm here to stay, and I plan to contribute to my community. I'm registered, and I vote. If you don't like that, perhaps you should try to move some place where democracy works somewhat differently.

As an afterthought, I do have to say that using a felonious bellboy from another state as an actor in an argument from authority was quite a surprise.. I am not particularly surprised at the xenophobia and lingering dislike of Oak Point in particular.

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