Sorry, folks. Meant to get back to the blog to write the next letter but the day went wild and I never got back to the letter. You know, that always happens - just when you think you finally have a nice quiet day to vegetate, boom! and suddenly it becomes crazy busy.
Anyway, just a note about the shows we have in the Clubhouse. We have already gone to many and enjoyed them tremendously with no duds among them but what we also have seen consistently is a theater with too many seats empty. Do you realize that shows that one can see here for $10 are far more costly elsewhere, from $39 at the Rinker Playhouse at Kravis and on upwards from there. Our shows are varied and last nite's show was just plain fun with the Beach Boys band. C'mon, guys. If people do not show up we will lose even more nites than we already have and there goes a big perk of the Village. Why don't our UCO officials make it a point of showing up and setting an example? Oh, why do I even ask that! Ever see David Israel there? Ed Black? Fausto? Bob Marshall? And by the way, Bob, your letter is up in the next paragraph. Enjoy!
OPEN LETTER TO BOB MARSHALL
Dear Bob,
Better late than never and I so do apologize for this letter's delay, but all good things are worth waiting for, right? I am assuming that as you hold a senior position in UCO that you have the wherewithal and knowledge and capacity to answer the question asked. Just follow along and hey, guys who received a letter already, just wonderin' where your answers are (not you, Dom - got yours, thank you.)
America. The land of the free - or not, evidently, depending upon where in the USA one lives and if it is CVWPB why then it is too bad for you. No freedom allowed. No freedom of speech or assembly. No fair campaign laws, and indeed the very opposite. No free press. So.....
Bob, do you feel that David Israel is within his moral and ethical rights to clamp down on freedoms within the Village and then reach out and try those same tactics outside the Village and shut down the opposition's publicity attempts? That is question one. And now for question two.
Did David Israel display blatant moral bankruptcy when he involved a synagogue in his paranoid and fascistic attempt to shut down the opposition and then, worse than that, use the excuse of religion and his protection of that religion, to justify his misdeeds? Very simple, Bob, yes or no and the readers will clearly know where you stand.
I understand that you might feel that David Israel is just mainlining the deeds of some of our national and international leaders, but does that justify his actions - or theirs or is it that he is just picking wrong role models. Let's take the act of telling a lie, or many lies, in the course of his role within UCO. Great role model in our own Obama who swore up and down that there would be no spying on allies, on foreign individuals of great import in the political leadership of their respective countries and certainly spying and listening in on our own lawmakers and private citizens was to be cut to a bare minimum - unless our "national interest" was at stake and hence the excuse to spy on Netanyahu, members of Congress and private citizens, especially those leading and/or belonging to Jewish organizations. Beginning to feel the nasty chilling feelings of nastiness here, a sense of the true hypocrisy of our leader - not - who believes in telling the truth unless it is not expedient, or telling outright lies and giving orders for actions he has supposedly sworn off. My antennae quiver at these actions and so should yours, but, again, this is a role model for David, huh?
The use of religion as an excuse to go barging in on other people, to impose one's own beliefs on others, to use the name or image or connection to G-d as an excuse and a justification, appears to be quite popular among certain groups of people today, so, here I ask you another question, Bob, about your chosen leader, David. Who are his role models here and before you answer as to your opinion, remember this. You can't be a little bit pregnant and you can't be a little bit oppressive and ruthless in the application of religion as a basis for actions and a justification for misdeeds. One is either in or out, no middle ground.
So, our present examples of this misapplication and misuse of religion are Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, the Lord's Army, Boko Haram, any variety of the various offshoots of Al Queda and the Taliban and who knows what the next group will be. Past examples - the members of the Crusades who went slaughtering through Europe, just sharpening their sword skills I guess, the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, excommunications of political and philosophical pests and do we need any more examples?
Are these the role models that David Israel chooses to justify his actions as he used religion as a justification and in so doing caused the opposite of help - perhaps the very motivation in the first place? Are these the role models you wish to follow? Are these the moral and ethical values - or lack thereof - that you and others in this crew wish to emulate? Does it make you proud?
In the world of today one has to step very carefully in the footsteps of others. One has to choose leaders carefully, not the hate mongering of a Trump nor the violent pathways and vicious statements of other political bigwigs - hate using the term leader as applied to them.
Take your choice, Bob. Make your choice, Bob - you and the rest. Simple enough. Yes or no.
And look at the toll of violence in the world, in Israel, as another victim dies of his wounds inflicted upon him as he walked along the outside of the Patriarchs' tomb. Gennady Kaufman, rest in peace under the canopy of G-d's love and sheltering wings, and may your memory be for a blessing.
Respectfully,
Esther and concerned residents of CVWPB
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