On January 10, 2002, a www.billybytes.com writer converted Northampton County Government Center's 4^th-floor council chamber to a makeshift obstetrics room. Straight from the womb of the General Purpose Authority, or GPA, and its outsized $111 million bond, he midwived and presented to council's nine members, solicitor, and council clerk the legal newborn Quo Warranto, known informally by its English-language-translated nickname, "by what authority?" Without a wink, council reached out and adopted the newborn. It was swathed in the Memorandum of Record of December 27, 2001, penned by councilman-elect Nicholas R. Sabatine III, Esq., and addressed to Northampton County District Attorney John M. Morganelli, and in the DA's reply by letter dated January 3, 2002.

Since that fateful evening of Quo Warranto's birth - fateful for the taxpaying citizens of the kingdom - the County's assassins have attempted to kill it, commencing at the February 21^st county council meeting, when coconspirators Sabatine and Merwarth introduced an ordinance purporting to amend the 1998 articles incorporating the GPA. This "shadow" government's first act was to extend $1 million to Easton's State Theater, virtually interest-free and with no time limit imposed for repayment. The GPA and its bonds, loans, grants, and contracts violate the commonwealth's Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 as amended, as well as Northampton County's much maligned Home Rule Charter.

This stipend was followed within days by a $1-million loan from the Lafayette-Ambassador Bank at 9.5% interest, a transaction reeking of a money-laundering scheme. These loans paved the way for the disbursement of a $700,000 grant from the $111 million omnibus bond for a noncompetitive contract with Alvin H. Butz Inc. for renovations to the State Theater's Acopian Room, including executive offices complete with toilet seats covered in ermine and mink. Add a $200,000 inlaid letter L signifying Lafayette College in the middle of N. 3^rd St.

The conspiring council members would adopt the Merwarth-Sabatine ordinance at its next regularly scheduled meeting, March 7, 2002, but only after scheming to create an obfuscatory smoke screen. The fog would cloak their venomous fangs while awaiting County Councilman Ron Angle's Saturday morning WAEB-FM Radio call-in talk show. Detractors of Angle, a longtime critic of how the County spends taxpayer money, would exploit the show's content to condemn him as a racial bigot and anti-Semite, through the obliging pages of The Morning Call and The Express-Times.

This was the tactic deployed against Angle when his arch nemeses Glenn Reibman and the county executive's political guru Michael Solomon, architect of the GPA and its $111 million bond, set out to crucify him. The scene of this passion play, rivaling that of Oberammergau or The Passion of the Christ, was Northampton President Judge Robert Freedberg's Courtroom One.

Notwithstanding, Angle remains on county council, Solomon remains incarcerated in a ClubFed, and the convicted felon's twin progeny, the GPA and $111 million bond, remain bastards still. To redeem itself, council must dissolve the GPA.