rural tompkins County – Page 34 – Rural Tompkins County

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Cornithaca County is so corrupt . . .” 3

The voters of Tompkins County have no say in the running of the county. Zoning Codes and decisions were based on the “visions” and “reimaginings” of Comprehensive Plans; themselves created without meaningful public participation or oversight.

This closed door decision making has been granted the respectability of legislation with Form Based Codes.

The defining characteristic of Form Based Codes is the power it gives government authorities to decide what people are allowed to do — and what they MUST do.

People can fight zoning decisions; but they can’t fight Form Based Codes. Fait accompli.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Cornithaca County is so corrupt . . .” 2

There are no real public meetings in Tompkins County – no meaningful public participation in the decision making process. In the rare instances where questions from the public are allowed – they are deflected with irrelevant, partial or unresponsive answers.

There is never any discussion or deliberation – the voting follows without a minute’s pause – exactly as planned – for the benefit of the county’s rich and powerful interests.

They’re not even called “meetings” they’re called “hearings” – it’s an event where members of the public can sign in, and talk for 2-minutes [timed] – to a group of authorities who have already made up their minds and are merely waiting for you to stop talking. People who don’t attend are labeled as “not wishing to participate.”

It’s the kind of government that’s sweeping the country — and sweeping away anything that stands in its path.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Sweat Equity” Bumper sticker

I thought of a number of things to say; but I don’t think I could make the point any clearer.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Evil Recycles” Logos

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – not exactly the place you would expect to find Evil – but then, while waste breaks the conservation circle; evil is always coming back around – evil is composed of 100% post evil actions; but also 100% post good intentions – and every empty container for good can be filled with evil for reuse.

Evil is everywhere — even the recycle bins.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – New Disorders

New Disorders

Due to the upswing in the psychiatric healthcare market; a number of new disorders have been identified:

Bi-telemarketer: a “boiler room” disorder characterized by periods of making annoying telephone calls, and periods of killing co-workers.

Bi-furcated: a complex and heretofore unrecognized disorder researchers describe as “six of one, half a dozen of the other.”

Bi-Postal: in this “mood swing on steroids,” the victim’s behavior alternates between killing fellow workers, and killing customers.

Bi-bye: a Criminal Justice disorder in which the negative outlook on life created by incarceration causes felons to murder when paroled.

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Seek and you will find – You will find inevitably what you are looking for if you go about it in the right way. Politicians know the truth of this – You will always find enough work to mandate a new bureaucracy; even if you have to create it.

I had a number of learning disabilities in school; but I didn’t know it — my papers would come back with “careless” in big letters. I thought they were just problems to overcome and move forward. It was no big deal. Many problems in life are just part of the fine print.

Not everything comes out of the same box. Not everything comes out of a box. Not everything.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Fuel efficient vehicles” Bumper sticker

Being owed the right to do bad has always been one of the strangest aspects of entitlement. These days it’s gone mainstream.

Liberals embracing profiling and discrimination have become everything they once claimed to despise. The “60’s child” was about loving and giving; today it’s all about hating and taking.

Our leaders have become the very beast that they claimed to be protecting us from . . . and it’s hungry.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Everything is gray” Bumper sticker

How do you take it? Some people will associate with “gray areas” – in which it is difficult to judge what is right and what is wrong.

[Ironically; these are same people who embrace divisive and incisive solutions – clear cut solutions that can cut principles in half, and denude the human landscape of centuries of societal growth.]

Or maybe it’s the gray steps of a treadmill – the gray corridors of our Kafkaesque-Soviet bureaucracy – the gray of hopelessness that crowds our streets — because many people are preparing for a winter that will outlast all preparations – “Not with a bang but a whimper.”

Maybe it’s the gray of a fog: that hides an unimaginable future. Maybe.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Everything’s transparent on the surface” Bumper sticker

Tompkins County’s pretense of transparent government is as thin as the smile on a billboard. Its inner workings are as opaque to citizen oversight; as its intransigent decision making is to citizen opinion.

Impassive faces and utterances of sound Doctrine echo the fears of the oppressed – while downcast eyes and conformity are the price of economic survival.

If you think this is melodramatic: then why are people scared to speak out?