My good friend Rollie Hanson brought up a good point in a
discussion about the power and influence of big wind foreign corporations within the
U.S. He asked “Is this the way it will
go from town to town?”
I got to thinking and want to expand on those thoughts.
In the industrial wind and renewable debate you often hear
that big wind and solar are going to lead us to energy independence, energy
security, and thus strengthen our national security. It all sounds so
patriotic. Problem is it necessitates the
destruction of democratic and patriotic principles to get there, backed by large foreign interests and backed by our own governments and citizens as well.
However, what happens
when large foreign corporations secretly slink into small rural communities out
of sight of the large urban areas where the political power and votes are? Then they to subvert the very fundamentals so
essential to American democracy by intimidating voters and suppressing free speech using uniformed American
citizens and governments as their direct
agents as we have seen right here in Cape Vincent. These people who
become agents of big wind have no clue
what they are doing in the blindness created by sums of cash. Big
wind is in fact attempting to quietly
subvert community by community the very system we have used for a couple
hundred years in American to hold off this type of enemy and the threat to
freedom and democracy…yet we wake up some morning and there they are right in
our community…right in our back yard. Makes me proud to be a NIMBY!!!
What’s worse, the NYS
government is, with their Article X, working on behalf of large foreign strategies
to take away our rights on the behalf of
these corporate bullies at the expense of our communities and very freedoms and
rights. It is not a joke or small potatoes.
Somebody is going to have to explain to me how this
industrial wind invasion subverting our rights and freedoms and democratic
system slowly and quietly town by town on the behalf of giant foreign energy corps is supposed to add to our national security
when they take our fundamental rights away!!!!! You don’t appease this type of
system.
The new Cuomo PR ads on TV even in my state of AZ tells the world “New York Works for Business”. That is code language that large corps clearly
understand. The ads just don’t tell you
or show you the subversion of basic rights it will take and how far NY will go
and what they will sit by and endorse to keep NY open for business.
Essentially NY enabling the subversion of our rights and
democracy out of sight in our small rural
communities is akin to treason on American communities and citizens!!! It just looks all so respectable. At the same
time they march the message out before
the world telling them to look at the wonderful things they are doing for
renewable energy, the climate, energy and business. Hidden out of sight in the ads is the fact our communities are being badly exploited. Think about it…in rural NY you essentially
now live in the third world where resources
are exploited at the cost of human rights and the voices that oppose it are
silenced. Whether it’s here or in Latin
America or anywhere else it’s NO different!!!!
We in Cape Vincent KNOW all too well the end results of this
insidious subversion of our rights on behalf of large corporate interests and
how it grinds away at our freedoms.
There should be NO appeasement…and considering this... we can not allow it to happen here.
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