Remember Sgt. Friday? He who would want only the facts, evaluate them and ultimately figure it all out and come out on the winning side of justice and what is right. If only we lived in such a world, but we do not. Legality is often misinterpreted as morality and laws are twisted to serve one's own twisted goals in too many a case.
Today we live in a world where the facts are changed and are changing as often as one changes sox and more than that! The Internet is ballyhooed as a gift to humanity, the best thing since ice cream was invented and yet, today there is a story how businesses are worried about cyber crime and there is even a CSI:Cyber on TV which can scare the heck out of you. There is a terrifying book called Future Crimes which will finish the job! Yet people who maintain that they are the be all and end all of mavens on the Internet refuse to see this or even perhaps do not understand it and wish to embroil and entangle us in such a mess without proper research and care. At present, our internet connections with smaller networks appear to be the safest way to go and thus we should remain, upgrading speed, etc. as needed or wished, and save our millions of dollars for where it is truly needed - like the roads!
But it appears our esteemed leader is hung up on the benefits of using the Internet to sneak and spy, to prowl around and see what one can find. He has written a huge article for The Rag regarding the use of metadata and the NSA and how we must continue this and the terrible awful bad thing it is to limit it. I understand that we need to listen in, to check up, to get intel on possible terrorism, but there has to be a better and more limited way to approach this and there also needs to be a plan B for the future as even doing this is outdated as the terrorists and the crooks and the whatnot are figuring out ways to avoid this. In addition, pardon me, but I believe there are issues closer to the hearts, minds and needs of the people of CV than the issue of metadata collection by the NSA and others. In fact, we all know that these types of agencies eventually do what they want anyway, just a bit deeper under the surface, just as the baddies on the Net use the Deep Internet to promulgate their nefarious deeds and needs and I, for one, am glad I do not know more about that nor am I ever going to dig into it. What I want to know is what are we going to do about our big problems here. Let us solve those before we offer the US government our help on other matters.
What we need here in the Village is a new system and the sooner the better. Sitting at an informal spontaneous meeting of people I was shocked to hear how many people they knew who were buying up multiple apartments to use as investments. Yes, some bought for family members, but others were just like Ed Black et al in buying up apartments though I hope none are like Kelly who tops the blackhat list. We must tend to this issue and NOW for if not, we will become a mini city of landlord owned units where things will be allowed to go to hell and making money will become the guiding light. We have seen it happen in other places and where it is still happening and it is not good for us, so putting other non essential issues aside, this is what we need to tackle and bluntly speaking - it will not happen under David Israel who allowed it to grow by leaps and bounds and perhaps even encouraged it., That remains to be seen in further investigations, but what does stand out are the facts - this had grown exponentially under the "rule" of David Israel and Co., and this must be stopped, the enablers tossed out of office and a clean and honest crew brought in to fix this up, get us back on track - and hopefully do it within term limits or have fellow believers follow along in a legal manner. And certainly we must combat some of the apathy seen at the latest meetings of UCO committees where at the latest Officers' meeting and the Operations meeting so many were not there. Where is their sense of duty - gone with the wind, I suppose. Where is their acceptance of the responsibility they were to take on as elected officials? All they wanted, evidently, was to keep David Israel in office, able to keep leading us down the wrong paths.
People, we must all wake up, smell the coffee, turn on the lights and sweep clean. Old descriptions of what needs to be done, but clear enough in their intentions. Just the facts, ma'am, brings us to the inevitable conclusion that the facts are pointing to bad UCO decisions and actions or inactions and to the need for a change. The time is now. The need is now. And you are what is needed to make this happen.
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