Guest
Editorial by
10/4/2010
Title:
IS
THIS
WHAT
HAPPENS
WHEN
YOU
SPEAK
OUT?
Late on Wednesday night, September 22nd, Justin Fitch, hardworking son of Dave
and Robin Fitch, from West Winfield,
A search of the barn by the family found no further evidence of the intruder.
The Fitches sorta concluded the intruder might have
been a homeless person needing somewhere to spend the night.
However, the event took a dramatic change two nights later when the Fitches were
awakened by abnormal bawling of their cows down in the barn. When the
Fitches raced to the barn they found the building filled with smoke.
They immediately found several places in the barn where fires had been started.
They also found the walls of the barn had been soaked with fuel oil.
David and Justin quickly sprung into action by extinguishing many of the fires.
Quick action by the local fire company (responding in 7 minutes) enabled all of
the prestarted fires to be extinguished.
While the damage to the barn varied in different areas, overall the Fitches
consider themselves very fortunate not to have lost their animals or their barn.
The Fitches wish to thank the local fire company and all of their neighbors for
all their great help.
Now the big question is: Who was responsible for this cowardly act of
arson?
Was it a grudge fire from someone in the neighborhood? Very,
very unlikely.
Was it some kids playing a prank on the Fitches? Absolutely
not.
Then who did commit the insane act?
We may never know. However, we do know that Dave and Robin Fitch have been
very critical of prices paid to all dairy farmers.
They worked feverishly in 2009 to sponsor two well-attended meetings in West
Winfield concerning the plight of all dairy farmers. (Nearly 500 people
attended these meetings.)
Recently they sponsored a meeting of dairy farmers at their farm. The
Fitches were the ones who called for a milk strike last July 4th. Both
Dave and Robin have written several letters to papers concerning the plight of
dairy farmers.
Now that this fire was started by an arsonist, do you suppose this was an effort
by some people to shut up the Fitches?
If this is true, and I think it is a strong possibility, then this is not going
to work.
The Fitches have no intention of being quiet and they are accelerating their
efforts to obtain fair milk prices for dairy farmers.
Oh, by the way, you know where Robin was during this melee? She was in
In conclusion, what has happened to the Fitches sorta
reminds me of several Congressmen who at one time claimed to support the
Specter-Casey bill. Why did they change their position? Were they
threatened in any way?
I hope they will take a lesson from the Fitches and show their backbone that is
necessary to solve the dairy farmers plight.
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