rural social justice – Page 19 – Rural Tompkins County

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “They don’t take responsibility” Bumper sticker

Tompkins County is a government that believes it has the right to “balance the burdens” on residents as they choose – and responds to accusations of hubris and evidence of dictatorial policy making by just claiming that they are not.

They and their cronies are never at fault; it’s always someone else’s fault — and probably your fault — and they always need more money, and more power, and more control to get us out of this trouble.

Tompkins County: the views of some forced on everyone — at a cost.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Everyone will be treated the same” Bumper sticker

“In Biden’s Society: Everyone will be treated the same – disposable.” If the lowest common denominator is non-existence; our government is pressing all Human worth and dignity into a vast plane of nothingness.

Their assertions of “equality” are only hypocritical lip-service: after establishing that the promotion of certain social actions are “more important” than principles or rights; our government then proceeded to add corporations, unions, and race, gender, and ethnicity, along with powerful special interests to this “more important” constellation that will guide us to the Promised Land.

Importance has become the mark of the new nobility – a coat of arms ensuring constant profit “without let or hindrance” by ethics or legitimacy.

Everyone WILL be treated the same – it’s just that some of us are no longer “everyone” — they’re “Important.”

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Separate but Equal”

It’s the same scam you see everywhere today: We’re all together [so we’re part of the same community] – but we’re categorized differently [so we don’t get the same treatment.] It’s a world of users and losers.

Rural people whose families have lived there for five generations; are marginalized by a high-tax, urban sprawl bedroom community – whose transient [and more affluent] families only plan to maximize their benefits and then move.

Tompkins County policy making exemplifies the kind of diversity that results in concentration camps. We’re all in this together . . . just different sides of the fence.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Empowering Local Government”

We have traveled back in time. We are living under a government with all the powers and privileges of royalty, of dictators . . . of secret police.

Well; aren’t we living “under” a government that has those powers? Haven’t “we” given that government the power to collectively and selectively oppress us? However they want. As long as they want. In secret.

And doesn’t the use of this power permeate their every policy and attitude.

We are blinded by the vision of what we are owed by others – not what we owe to everybody. The vision of an adolescent. “Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee” We’re off to the Island of Empowerment.

Rise of the Evil Ones. They have great needs — work harder.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Local Government Planning”

This graphic is like looking across an intersection; towards the policy making documented in “Tompkins County and Tammany Hall.”

The actual survey questions are just as manipulative, although they are crafted more subtly in the Town of Lansing Survey – and the Town’s Comprehensive Plan is demonstrably written by Cornell; through its parts and partisans – and Town authorities did turn their backs on any meaningful participation, review, or approval by the town’s residents.

The violence? Well, there are some rural people who believe I was sprayed with Roundup and poisoned because of my Rural Social Justice activities.

The facts? There is no one in authority left to go to – no one left to trust. That’s a fact.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Local Government Communications”

It happened again. Mr. “Hope-a-dope.” We were told; “You already have my support there” by our County representative; and “You’ll need the signatures of people on the road” – which we did – but when we finished our part: he refused to acknowledge or respond to any of our communications.

We were fools to believe. The only question is whether we were just tricked into wasting time and energy to weaken our resolve — or whether they needed the time to put something over behind the scenes.

Asking for the government’s help in Tompkins County; merely gives advance warning of a problem that needs to be covered up, or a public action that needs to be quashed.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Local Government Hearings”

It’s hard to tell whether people don’t attend public hearings because they don’t think that it’s important – or they do know that it’s not important – or they’re just apathetic. But there is one thing that is certain: There is no meaningful public participation in Tompkins County.

While citizens can sign up to speak their opinions for two-minutes; local authorities don’t take two-seconds to reach a decision afterwards. It’s as meaningful a government participation as reading a magazine in a municipal waiting room.

Local governments in Tompkins County treat the opinions of residents like fast food containers – they look for the first place to dispose of them without being seen.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Tompkins County: New Mottos” Bumper sticker

“Tompkins County: Creating rural communities where drugs, crime and poverty can thrive.”

“Policy Appropriate” mottos would be a great help in raising public awareness of the ongoing destruction of rural Tompkins County.

It’s not the self-serving evil of Urban Colonialism that sets it apart – it’s the repressiveness of its policies.

And if Cornell isn’t responsible – why is it always at the center of the web?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Dare to Debate” Bumper sticker

“Dare to Debate” – of course I mean a real debate – not a dog-and-pony-show showcase for pre-decided election blurbs. The kind of debate that makes you think, and discuss, and decide together – not stand on both edges of a chasm; throwing packages of hate at each other: where every fact is a barb intended to hurt – not an understanding intended to heal.

Maybe you could have public meetings for debate and reconciliation at the local and neighborhood level. How could this be a waste of time? Aren’t people all we really have in this life?

Debate the issues in a public forum? What a radical idea! Next they’ll be having the people participating in government!

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “You can’t see the reality for the statistics” Bumper sticker

Using small facts to obscure a larger issue has been around for ages – but modern technology has turned a drizzle into a deluge.

The word processor changed the book world: churning out sequels as fast as fingers could type – with salability as the constant goal. Books blossomed in size – 350, 400, 500 pages – published as fast as stamped foil covers could be produced: “Another ‘!!!’ novel in the ‘$$$’ series.” The best sellers became almost the entire book market.

Equally overwhelming changes were overtaking the world of research and statistics – historical and scientific “facts” received pride of place because they were endlessly cited and repeated – not because of any verifiable roots.

The best place to hide unpleasant facts; is with a sea of conforming facts – a SEO flood that will saturate popularity driven searches: muddying the waters against all but the most diligent research — and who these days takes the trouble to do diligent research to inform their opinions?

Tompkins County uses these facts as barriers to separate the people from the reality of the issues that most affect their lives. What is the perceived reality? That their government is corrupt — they haven’t stopped the people from looking through the bars. Not yet.