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all politics... are loco FIFTH WARD: NOT 'ROUND UP READY' In this Technocratic age, where risk is no longer an acceptable fact of life to those who deem themselves "too big to fail" , a New Way of Life has emerged. It is the technological equivalent of the beliefs of one John D. Rockefeller, who professed that "Competition is Evil". In Agriculture, we see this achieved chemically, whereby every living plant in a given field, is killed off with "Liquid Gold", and then, only these seeds engineered to grow within that toxin will ever bear fruit. There will be no grassroots, no organic growth. Only that preordained by the technocrats, to be 'round up ready'. ( or they'll evolve into "Superweeds ) In Foreign Policy we see it, when a whole nation is rendered asunder, its populace rounded up and turned out each night by armed parties searching for insurgents... where local War Lords are promoted to become corrupt Governors for the New Regime, theoretically to instill order, and allow for the "new seeds" that will grow in a toxic environment, and bear fruit. This too, results in "superweeds". Call them 'terrorists', or drug cartels. The C.I.A. calls them... "unintended consequences". That's long for "oops". In Urban Renewal, we see the same formula. Neighborhoods rich with the social fabric of family, friends and future, but short on economic wealth and tax generation, are bladed from the field by bulldozers, and politically propagated blight. It is a slow poison, consisting of the stemming of public services such as police protection, public transit routes, and street lighting; vacant buildings left unkempt, as shelters for drug dealers, sex offenders and prostitutes; land banking, and bureaucratic deaf ears turned to repeated complaints and pleas from concerned parents and residents. Local Ward Lords and politicians are made immune to the spreading ills, to act as plow for the seeds of the New Crop, all patented and owned by the genetic engineers, the public trough fed developers, and the politicians that for a tithing, allow them access to private lands, for private gain. Such is the scenario we find ourselves in, today, in the Fifth Ward. We have been designated 'ground zero' for a huge as yet unfocused $8.1 Billion Mastercard Plan. Redistricting, after the 2010 Census, follows the development plan lines more than it follows the City Charter, or any rhyme or reason. The Ward is Not a 'Preservation Review District'. And the "Democrat" candidate for Alderperson, in this City Hall created need for a special election, is the committeewoman for the Ward herself, who along with her father, the committeeman, nominated her to be the "only Democratic candidate on the ballot". ( Someone should look up the definition of the word "democratic", because two other candidates ARE running, both Democrats, but now Independents, ... being labelled "anonymously" as Republicans. ("competition is evil") The father, the committeeman, is also, through his own organization, a partner IN the development company, that has been filling political coffers state wide for half a decade. Much of that generosity raining on candidates immediately able to shape his development's future. No surprise that the candidate's brother received political contributions... from this same developer, and family partner, as brother was delivering a fat tax credit from the State. But it hasn't worked. There are still clean seeds left. It is THE right to life issue, that natural seeds survive. There IS organic growth in the Fifth Ward, and indeed all across the part of the city known as the North Corridor... North of Delmar. It is not enough to have the written accounts of lost neighborhoods, such as Pruitt Igoe and Mill Creek, where the intricate fabric of society, though economically challenged, was erased from the face of the earth, in exchange for a healthier tax base, with some pretty healthy money changing well manicured hands along the way. There are grassroots left in the Fifth Ward. Not everyone was gerrymandered out in the Rorschach redistricting that banished the outspoken potential candidates past to the Third Ward. There are citizens willing to stand up to the technocrats, guided by heart, and not by personal gain. And there are voters. Granted, we lost 18% of them to the first "round up" of redistricting, but we are still more than may be suspected. Hear them answer YOUR questions in a public forum moderated by the League of Women Voters. Show the technocrats and the paid off politicians that this is a community of HOMES, whether we own or rent, and this is not a land bank that can be gotten cheap, for some wampum and a few beads. Nor by genetic modification... We live in a Ward. But WE are Not wards... not of the state, not of the city, nor of anyone else. WE ARE... THE FIFTH WARD. CHUCKtheFED  |
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The power of one is infinite if the one can think laterally....
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made me want to stand up and applaud...you rebel rouser you...
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