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Mike Diederich Jr.
May 25, 20246 min read
Memorial Day and Foreign Flags
By Mike Diederich, Jr. I confess to feeling patriotic emotions arise when I see the American flag unfurled. Being a veteran of two...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Jun 26, 20236 min read
The Evergreen case – The Victims’ Rights to Justice
By Mike Diederich, Jr. Several years ago, N.Y.S. enacted legislation providing victims with the right to provide input into the criminal...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Jun 23, 20235 min read
The Evergreen case -- Have Justice and Democracy in Rockland been Denied?
By Mike Diederich, Jr. To die in a fire is a horrible death. And when recklessness and stupidity rise to the level of criminality,...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Nov 24, 20215 min read
A Hasidic Feast without Thanksgiving— Publicly funded busing to yeshivas, including on Thanksgiving
It is Thanksgiving Day weekend, which might be a good time to reflect upon “getting along,” and how the secular education of children may...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Nov 17, 20217 min read
Fear is the Root Causes of Religious “Friction” in Rockland County
Mike Diederich's “Counter-Point” to a CWTDWYTK post of November 14, 2021 A post recently on CWTDWYTK seemed to be saying that hateful...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Nov 16, 20214 min read
𝑰 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑹𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑩𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑮𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒈, by Kelley Bless
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG, a tiny Jewish woman who surpassed 99.9% of the population in learning, in law, and in wisdom, was able to work...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Nov 13, 20218 min read
Time to Step Up to the Plate—for Rockland County and American Democracy
We need some "fearless citizens" in Rockland County. I hope everyone had fun on Veterans’ Day. As with Memorial Day and the 4th of July,...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Oct 17, 20219 min read
How to Lawfully Stop a Shtetl (or other Local Theocracy)
In this paper, I explain why the creation of de facto local theocracies in Rockland County and in New York State is unconstitutional, and...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Oct 7, 202112 min read
"Back the Blue" without "Gifts of Green"
Exorbitant Police Chiefs’ pay is overburdening Stony Point and Rockland County taxpayers By Mike Diederich, Jr. A “kleptocracy” is the...
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Mike Diederich Jr.
Aug 21, 20213 min read
Hasidic Children --do you know a Goy?
This posts asks Hasidic children the question--do you know a Goy or any member of the Goyim (non-religious Jews & Gentiles)? In the...
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