{"id":2444590,"date":"2019-05-24T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/regarding-the-dark-side-and-big-brother\/"},"modified":"2019-05-25T07:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T13:17:17","slug":"regarding-the-dark-side-and-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/regarding-the-dark-side-and-big-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding the Dark Side and Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s common knowledge many Aspen elites read the letters to the editor first. It\u2019s our town\u2019s agora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s also common knowledge that the most powerful unelected kommittee this side of either Moscow or Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square is the city of Aspen\u2019s Dark Lord of the Sith, APCHA. Unbelievable but APCHA has their hand in 3000 \u201cunits*\u201d around a town with a population of 6,788. They have their own PR firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Despite its bylaws, the board\u2019s Kommandant has ruled since the last Ice Age and stated during public comment in front of The Aspen Times that \u201cyou cannot criticize us.\u201d The kommittee has decided in secret session on advice from their notorious attorney that they won\u2019t kompromise and will use taxpayer money to defend their joke, a recent Kafkaesque, Orwellian public comment policy written by the police** that was never even voted on. No exaggeration. Honestly, in Aspen\u2019s version of \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d they\u2019re the hilarious joke that keeps giving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">*Some \u201cunits\u201d are four-bedroom homes hand built by their owners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">**#Aspen political Stormtroopers\/Sturmabteilung<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Lee Mulcahy<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/regarding-the-dark-side-and-big-brother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s common knowledge many Aspen elites read the letters to the editor first. It\u2019s our town\u2019s agora. It\u2019s also common knowledge that the most powerful unelected kommittee this side of either Moscow or Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square is the city of Aspen\u2019s Dark Lord of the Sith, APCHA. Unbelievable but APCHA has their hand in 3000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 07:46:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444598,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444590\/revisions\/2444598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}