Well, I tried. For the sake of a more peaceful and productive New Year I tried. Repeatedly extended an open hand, offering to work together for the sake of the Village, to have a co-operative movement. Time and time again I was ignored or had vile statements sent my way as an answer. Most recently I posted an offer again after having been told that David Israel was interested in having discussions. Well, zip on that, folks. There was no answer other than what I now believe to be yet another of his dirty tricks and shame on me that I fell for it in the hope of having a better year for us here in the Village. As for my source, please think again about what you told me.
What was it? Well, suddenly his private blog was open to posting after having been blocked for lo these many a year. So I posted and offered a hand again and for that I received, via one of his prominent decoys, Petey Boy Cruise, he of the nasty mouth and mind, yet more garbage replies and when I responded, still hopeful, what I got was a deletion of the nasty postings in total and part, depending on the posting and left my responses hanging out there. Well, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I deleted my comments as well.
David Israel, as a Jew, you are now going into the New Year. This is the time to repent, to think about your life and rectify the wrongs, to apologize to those you have wronged - and there are many! Instead you wallow in the same nasty wallow of mud and garbage. Well, shame on you. I apologize if my zeal for improving the Village, for hoping that we could all work together, has led to hurt feelings in some people but think how easily this could all be avoided. Yet there is no hope I see. I am sorry for you.
The other day I was reading an article about the GA, the General Assembly, of the Presbyterian Church, the same church which engaged in rabid anti - Semitism last year in endorsing the BDS movement, by a matter of a few votes in a small number of participants. Well, lo and behold, the truth comes out and tell me that this does not sound like a mirror image of us here at the Village. Dirty tricks and dirty pathways are the same all over and aren't you all a bit ashamed of yourselves for your behavior, following the paths left behind by haters, by sick people.
Among the charges brought forth are the following: During the debate, "hour upon hour was devoted to pro-divestment speakers (non-committee members) while only minutes were allotted to anti-divestment speakers." Hmmmm......
Inaccurate statements were spoken and made repeatedly by the pro-divestment side and the anti- divestment side was NOT allowed a chance to challenge them! Well, I hear the echo in my head on this one!
Finally, GA staff and standing committee members were allowed to make many pro-divestment presentations without allowing for a counter presentation.
Now CV. The opposition is not allowed to publish in the Village paper. The opposition paper is not allowed to be distributed openly in the Village. Opposition members are barred from UCO and the ranks of the volunteers. Opposition speakers are regularly booed and yelled at by the claque of David Israel. Opposition is not allowed to voice ANYTHING on Channel 63. We are refused access to WPRF facilities for purposes of challenging the structure of the present UCO with WPRF colluding with the current UCO to deny us our rights.
Sad but true. The GA is asking for a task force of objective people to be appointed prior to the next GA. They are to carefully examine staff and standing committee leaders and their roles and are demanding EQUAL time rules be applied to all and that the moderators not be known to be advocates on these issues. Sounds fair to me and how wonderful it would be if it were fair here as well.
It is very sad that at a time when the outside world is in such turmoil that we, in the little world of CVWPB cannot get together but for that to happen, both sides must be willing and both sides must be committed to it. We do not have that here for the incumbent UCO chairs and officers are holding desperately on to their little fiefdoms, apparently the only thing they have in life for their own validation. Sad, so sad, for with their behavior comes hurt to many.
Am I at times a bit harsh on these people? Yes, but I do not threaten physical harm nor curse them out on a near daily basis as they do. I simply tell the truth, hard as it is for them to hear and accept. And why? Because there is a well known thought that says that if one is kind to the cruel, then one will end up being cruel to the good. It is time for the long suffering residents of CV to have their good life back again and the New Year is a great time to start.
Start to think of running for open offices. Start to think of besieging the UCO office when there are committee meetings. Start to demand that all residents have a say and are allowed to speak and have access to all facilities. Return term limits. Return debates. Return use of the pools for candidate presentations in early evening times. No one is swimming then so Eva's pathetic statement that we are only here for recreation and not thought, will be negated. Enough already.There is a time for everything on this earth - so says the Psalm - and even The Turtles in their version of it- and so say I and many others. David Israel, Ed Black and all the followers of his delusions - the time has come.
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