rural social justice – Page 5 – Rural Tompkins County

“The World According to Doctrine” — Their policies just connect the dots

Policy making in Tompkins County is a purely mechanical process: every outcome is decided before the issue is revealed.

The round of comments, and meetings and surveys is only a meaningless backfill for an edifice whose foundations have already been laid.

The “meeting” for a radical zoning change for the rural Lansing community is called an “Open House” – a PR phrase for an exclusionary paradigm shift that denied that same rural community any participation in its planning.

When you connect all the dots — it’s a picture of money.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Tompkins County Definitions: “Coincidence”

Tompkins County is all about coincidences – but those days are about over: the strata of the New Society is clearly defined by Doctrine. There is no longer any reason to obscure the facts – just be more “important,” be “owed,” or “identified as a need” – and your ascension is a matter of public proclamation.

As for Tompkins County’s poor, marginalized, and underserved rural people – Well, there can’t be a higher; unless there’s a lower — and those “Good-old boy, hillbilly, redneck, lily-whites” don’t deserve to live there, anyway.

“The World According to Doctrine” — U.S. Agriculture: Paid to pollute

It’s not surprising that most Americans don’t know what’s going on in the Agricultural Sector – they’re not supposed to.

You may know that methane emissions have the greatest short term effect on Climate Change: greater than the CO₂ gasses produced by cars, trucks, and industry. What you may not know; is that Agriculture is the greatest contributor to methane emissions – and that the Agricultural Sector is the only sector where methane emissions are continuing to increase. And that the farming methods being promoted by the USDA and Agricultural Colleges are the biggest producers of methane of all farming methods. Or that our government is only using voluntary programs and incentives [paying them our tax money] to fight this pollution.

To cut straight to the punch line: When all their activities that contribute to Climate Change affect their crops —government subsidies and funding pay out our tax money to ensure that our country’s corporate agribusinesses get every penny of profit they’re destroying our climate for.

Are they fools for what they’re doing? Or are we fools for letting them do it?

“The World According to Doctrine” — New Normal Corruption – “Herbicide Spraying”

This hits home – because I was sprayed with a cloud of Roundup from an agricultural boom sprayer while mowing my lawn – and ended up dazed and vomiting all over myself and the bathroom in the early morning hours.

The investigation of my complaint by the NYSDEC [documented in “Tompkins County and Tammany Hall”] did nothing to help their reputation for corruption in the rural community.

Most rural families are too poor to move and powerless to use politicians; and when the mega-million dollar factory farms took over rural Lansing, NY – they owned us and everything in it.

The only thing worse than the environmental racism of the rural blacks – is the environmental erasism of the rural whites — we have no help, no hope — and no worth.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Tompkins County’s “Separate but Equal” Policy

Important corporations in Tompkins County: like Cargill and Cornell, receive tax cuts — while the rural areas receive cuts in services. Having basic services in rural areas, like Sheriff’s patrols, cut entirely; because they’re “too expensive” – is the definition of “unimportant” in Tompkins County’s Ivy-league-corporate planning – and it helps the bottom line – while the County’s rural tax assessments are the closest thing to Prince John since Robin Hood’s time.