Community members unable to discuss other community members, events, or rules of the Kingman Park Civic Association. (artist depiction; actual photo unavailable because it would be prohbited by the rules)
The Kingman Park Civic Association, which recently attempted to derail the progress of the city’s streetcar line via an historic preservation request, has some bizarre rules, including ones aimed at suppressing the free speech of its members.
Will Sommer over at the City Paper has the scoop, with a copy of the super-top-secret rules obtained from the association’s recent historic preservation application.
Among those rules: members (and non-members) cannot talk about members of the association without prior approval of the association. From the rules:
No member or non-member will be permitted to obtain membership, or retain membership in the association, if he or she disparages, defames, libels, or discusses other members of the association in and through print media, electronic mail [e-mail], telephone or any other mode of communication that is not authorized or permitted by association, its executive board and officers.
The City Paper put the rules online, for all to see, which is itself prohibited under the rules:
Yep they continue to do their best to keep NE DC a ghetto that is ignored by progress. They blocked a metro stop at Benning Road and Oklahoma Avenue nearly 40 years ago, , and are working to stop the trolley too.
A friend who attended a meeting a few years ago (before he learned that it is just a group of crazy folks who hate white people) said one of the leaders stood up and said “No one asked ME if I wanted a trolley!”
They’ve also decided that, in their fevered minds, Kingman Park has swallowed up Carver Langston and Rosedale as well.
The sad thing is that the new Housing Complex writer at the City Paper swallowed this hook, line, and sinker, and agreed with their land grab.