Dave sent this to the comment section of my blog. I decided to put it up as a post. Dave's comment were not prompted by me nor did I have any input into them, although I agree and consider them an excellent statement on our issues.
I have bolded and underlined one of Dave's quotes I thought was excellent. I will have an additional post on Dave's comments on this subject coming soon.
Dave
LaMora August 24, 2012 4:40 AM
Art, it appears the general sentiment in
Cape Vincent,and the greater North Country area, of both the pro-wind faction
and the more opposed-to- wind faction, although for entirely different
reasons,is to sheepishly follow the process outlined by Gov. Cuomo and our
legislators to allow corporations the right to over-rule our local land use
laws. Even though the county has expressed official opposition to Art. X they
have no strategy in place to challenge the eventual pre-empting of our law. Nor
does it appear our local government even has an interest in resolving to
officially oppose the legislation,much less develop a strategy to do so, other
than pitting our law against the criteria to be established by the Art. X siting
board.
In spite of the horrific history of BP, and that of other major corporations , who recklessly neglect and abuse the rights of communities and in spite of the patronizing ,insulting, arrogant essence of the Art. X legislation implied to every citizen and elected,and or appointed official at the local level, it seems there is no collective will to demand, and assert our rights to govern ourselves,in the spirit of the autonomy our Constitution,and its authors provided us.
The only resolve that shows a public face is the resolve to follow the rules, regardless of who establishes them , what basic principles they subvert,or who and how they benefit.
We have labored tiressly for six years only to submit to state-corporate totalitarianism, and a lack of will to oppose it.
In spite of the horrific history of BP, and that of other major corporations , who recklessly neglect and abuse the rights of communities and in spite of the patronizing ,insulting, arrogant essence of the Art. X legislation implied to every citizen and elected,and or appointed official at the local level, it seems there is no collective will to demand, and assert our rights to govern ourselves,in the spirit of the autonomy our Constitution,and its authors provided us.
The only resolve that shows a public face is the resolve to follow the rules, regardless of who establishes them , what basic principles they subvert,or who and how they benefit.
We have labored tiressly for six years only to submit to state-corporate totalitarianism, and a lack of will to oppose it.