Healing? - A Post On JLL

 There is a post on JLL by a guest commenter identified as "Tibbets Point Observer."  It is well written and worth reading.  But as with any opinion there are some important things to consider about this writers post.  Here is a link.

http://www.jeffersonleaningleft.blogspot.com/

I have said for years now that when or if big wind leaves Cape Vincent nobody is a winner and the healing is not likely to take place for a couple decades or generations.  That is what to me is most important.  Big wind whether it be BP or someone else simply took that human dignity away from us with no choice.  That is why it should have never been allowed in here to begin with and why we need to fashion a zoning law that never lets it in here ever again, or any such invasive community destroying development.  Not a law that attempts to appease it. Healing does not take place by appeasing and working with the very forces trying to destroy our community.

The writer indicates life is too short.  That is true but  it is also too short for us to tolerate the any longer the indignities forced on us by giant energy corporations and politicians who take their money! That is an obscenity against the human condition and human rights.  We need to stand hard against it.

That is what leadership does.  Despite the controversy and discomfort, and the way the political wind might be blowing at the moment...they stand up and look at the big picture and do the right thing.  I happen to believe that is a once and for all prohibition on wind development and a stand against the State's Art X. that stripped away our rights.

This writer needs to remember that whether BP leaves or not, we STILL  as a community  had our rights removed by the State.  One thing that might help healing is to regain our own community control were WE have choices not controlled by bureaucrats far away that have no relationship to our community.  Seems to me self determination would be an excellent place to start for  better community future.  But that will take real visionary leadership with considerable  backbone to take that path.

There is,  however, one thing the writer skips over.  They imply as BP leaves, it leaves a gap for self reflection about ourselves and our actions.  That would be wonderful, but not likely a reality.

In reality our community just gets passed from one disaster into the hands of another while we sit helplessly by, once again victims.  When do we stop being victims to everyone else's rules?  I think they missed the point that BP will likely SELL it's CV development to another wind developer, and depending...that might leave us WORSE off.  BP has dragged it's feet on this development for years, but another developer may not.  And if turbines go up in this town the community division and chaos will just get worse, not better.

Now I have an idea if  we want to heal.  A place to start to help someone in CV. There is one citizen in this  community who has had a great deal of suffering at the hands of the town's zoning officials.  How about we start right there and have the town grant her some real relief and find out just how sincere the community and town govt. is about actually healing.

It feels good to say we want to heal...but let's see how that plays out in actual actions since there is an opportunity present to demonstrate that idea.