It’s long but please read on if you want to know the critical
WHY to donate and defend the two
Cape Vincent bloggers under legal attack. Here is demonstrated the proof of why their
defense is critical from my first hand experience.
Please clearly understand the WHY!!!
They have rearranged
their lives coming to OUR defense against the insidious industrial wind/
political infection of our community. But that’s not all and may not even be the key
point here. These bloggers, like others are on a cutting
edge technology frontier with a new paradigm
for attacking back against the
politically/ corporate wind onslaught.
I may have
disagreements with them from time to time.
But that’s only about the HOW
to defeat industrial wind, not the WHY
or if we SHOULD! I think all the
bloggers in Cape Vincent and many people
definitely agree on the WHY and
SHOULD!!!!
We can have our heated debates and in the end in a democratic society they are
actually very healthy. But what you have
now is a direct attack on our ability to have any debate if it doesn’t conform
to the script of other powerful agendas who
want the debate extinguished. It’s
far too threatening to the status quo not to control information because in the
hands of the average citizen it is like gasoline on freedom’s fire…it’s highly
explosive, and can’t be easily controlled.
It’s direct fundamental POLITICAL POWER in the hands of the average
citizens to push back against the corporate/ political level scheme. Just like Cuomo’s Article X is trying to do
to us on behalf of BP!
With blogs we don’t wait
or ask permission or have to be subservient to some media source, or politician
intent on controlling the flow or
direction of the conversation, or backing away from controversial subjects
because they will lose corporate advertisers or donors.
And here is the other insidious problem that crops up
repeatedly that Dave LaMora and I have been discussing. That is the ability of corporations like BP
to have corporate constitutional rights like people. They equate huge powerful corporations to
people just like you and I the average
small citizen. Note the quote from the
Article below on unlimited corporate donations to politicians.
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending
Limit
WASHINGTON — Overruling two
important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a
bitterly divided Supreme Court on
Thursday ruled that the government may
not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
If you’re interested you
can read the rest at this link:
Now the court wraps this
all up in “free speech”. There is no
debate on whether a corp should have constitutional rights like people. The problem here IS NOT free speech. I am not against free speech or even for the
corps to have a say in what might impact them.
The problem here is the corporations like BP with
their inordinate influence through their unlimited wallets, can simply BUY one
hell of a lot more free speech than you and
I can as an average citizen!!! Though unlimited donations they can purchase
the needed legislation for their profit margins. They also have a lot more money to purchase
lawyers to make sure your “free” speech
won’t exactly be free!!! It’s going to cost you just like our bloggers. It’s
not a level playing field. In fact the
field has been tilted so far on this corporate rights issue that you don’t even
get to be on the field any more. They play on the big field and you get to play
in the political sand box with your little political play school toys about
what you think your political power and free speech rights are!!
Well folks…the blogs are
the ticket out of the sand box and back on the field!!!
We in CV have faced the destruction brought on by this corporate
political inequity every single day for
the last 6 or 7 years. It’s the exact thing Cuomo, and the NY legislature and
BP are confident they can ram right down your throat. A key part of this scheme is that we and the
town board can’t object because we don’t have the MONEY or the WILL to fight becuase their corporate constructional rights
are bigger than ours. They know because
they purchased the premium constitutional rights package we can’t afford!!!
In this case in CV they
fully understand that the simple threat of Cuomo’s big corporate campaign
money, and BP’s deep pockets are all they need to strip you, not of your
rights, but first of your WILL. That is
all they need, the rest will follow.
They don’t actually have to strip you of your rights…they know we will
do that all by ourselves living in fear under the tyranny of unlimited power and
money. In fact in most cases we are wired to self destruct just like many of the other
1000 Islands and Golden Crescent wind targeted communities mayl do under
Article X if they don’t change their approach.
So what do we do about it? Well…our bloggers have already shown you the
extremely effective path to your emancipation…TECHNOLOGY and INFORMATION…BLOGS!!! That is the central organizational weapon maximizing
other tactics that can be deployed against Article X.
So you
may ask…this big talk all sounds real good in theory Pundt, but where is the
proof?
Well if
you have been paying attention in the CV wind battle the proof is actually
right under your nose!!!
Let me show you. For one, the very fact the blogs are being
sued at all, and it’s pretty clear in my opinion it has tentacles to BP
directly or indirectly. That’s your first example.
Not enough??? Ok then let give
you another.
In 2010 when I and a few
others met face to face with Cuomo’s big AG guns. How do you think we got inside his door? In large part it was the BLOGS and
Internet!!! How do you think it played
when AG Cuomo saw our town officials on the blogs and Internet videos saying
they could care less about Cuomo’s wind ethics code? How do you think it played when they saw on
the BLOGS a small rural NY govt running amuck and it involved a big black eye
on Cuomo’s code and green agenda and a disgrace to the power of their office? Well where do you think they got the bulk of
that information??? THE BLOGS!!!!
Let me tell you from direct
face to face experience EXACTLY how it played.
We were told by an unnamed player in the AG’s office that the AG’s
office watched the blogs like hawks every day, and we should make sure we kept
unmercifully hammering on the blogs on CV’s run amuck wind issue. Also when I talked to Robert Freeman from the
NY Committee on Open Govt. He knew of CV and what was going on before I even
opened my mouth. Why? The BLOGS!!!
Cuomo’s own AG deputy chief
of staff indicated to me in a personal phone call that he thought there were some articulate voices on the
BLOGS in CV creating an impact. A man two steps down from Cuomo, and one of
Cuomo’s top lawyers, and his
investigators…and most likely Cuomo
himself were watching like hawks exactly what all of us here were saying, and
it got us inside his door and a meeting with his top staff, just like any other
big corporate lobbyist with billions of political dollars in his pocket.
And in effect it didn’t
require us to spend one political donation dime
!!!! In large part because
while some of us were beating our brains out with research and information pounding
and screaming outside Cuomo’s door, we had a very powerful technological weapon
backing us, THE BLOGS and INTERNET that got us right past his door, right to
the computer on his desk, and those of his staff and investigators, and they
could not ignore it.
Now some might say…well
Pundt that investigation didn’t amount to anything so all this was a
failure. Well I say you have completely
missed the point! In large part the BLOGS helped us slam down
Cuomo’s door, a powerful man who will run for President, at a time when he was
desperately trying to keep it shut and keep us out. And you think that is a failure, or that you don’t see an incredibly valuable lesson
as he tries to ram Article X down our throats?
If so you REALLY don’t get it!!!
The final evidence of the
power of the blogs and Internet and why you should defend them is this. Why do
you think Article X exists at all and was forced on us by Cuomo and the NY
Legislature? Because in NY community
after community we were WINNING against the industrial wind onslaught. Think about it. Nearly every one of these wind opposition
groups in NY has a Website and some may
have blogs. That is one of the places I started researching in 2006 to get the
TRUTH about industrial wind I couldn’t get from anywhere else and while
politicians weren’t talking trying to cover their asses on a hot button
issue. We can share critical or new information at lightning speed. Consider
that even though they had their secret leases and were well ahead of us at the
beginning, we caught up in a hurry and jumped ahead. In CV that was in large part because of the
BLOGS. State wide that ended in Cuomo realizing his green wind agenda was
slipping away and to get it back it forced
him to expose his darker political side and
insidious corporate allegiances for the world to see, and they could
observe his willingness to quickly strip
our community home rule rights away to get his green toys back.
It’s all good to defend our blogs because they give
us information and ideas to defeat big
wind locally. That is great! But it is
far far more important because the blogs and the Internet are an extremely
powerful tool for the average citizen with little money to level the playing
field against unlimited corporate and political bank rolls.
THAT is why it is critical.
The powers that be know this, and that
is why this suit even exists. They have
to keep this fire under control. You have a chance to partcipate on the
frontier of keeping your freedoms by protecting a new technological political
information weapon that may be the last refuge you have to protect those freedoms
because big corporate money has purchased the hijacking of the constitution, the
politicians, the upper elections, and
the courts You should donate to protect
Rick and Kathy, that’s fine. ” But you
should consider what’s written above and also donate to make a down payment on some insurance to protect your
rights so corporations like BP and politicians like Cuomo can’t simply illegitimately purchase the exclusive rights
to define the meaning behind the words “citizenship” and
“democracy”!!!
Now you have the proof…please
donate to the Bloggers Defense Fund and make a down payment on the preservation
of your rights.
The Bloggers Defense Fund
PO Box 8
Three Mile Bay, NY
13693
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