More Disturbing Reality To Consider

                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QICksKB8w_Y

Now if you are willing to follow this video you will learn some important things very relevant to the CV wind situation and the Art. 10 process.   You will note Ms. Margil, one of the speakers, defines how we as community citizens using the regulatory process (like Art. X and zoning laws) are herded like cattle to a certain “regulatory point” then it puts a bullet in our heads.

At the “regulatory point” you are only allowed to discuss and act as to what the regulatory process allows. And that is a process lobbied and designed by the corporations who will be supposedly “controlled” by the system.

Then  it occurred  to me that we had a vivid example of what Ms. Margil is explaining when Art. X judge Paul Agresta came to CV  last Dec. with a very narrowly defined agenda to speak ONLY about the Art X process and how it related to the BP sale.

But there were a couple people who wanted to discuss other very important issues surrounding wind development and the impacts.

Do you remember when Anne Harris, a Lyme town official, stood up and wanted to discuss the wider impacts of wind energy and how it affected people and our communities for years?  That wasn’t in Agresta’s script, or in other words, where Agresta wanted to herd the cattle…and he politely shut her down.

Our communities have been dragged through hell for nearly a decade by BP and others, and here we have a person representing the Art. X process sitting in our community and yet we can’t talk about any of that.  No… the rules didn’t allow that.

Instead as cattle we got fed an education on how the BP sale was to proceed within the Art. X process and how very likely our community might get badly screwed in the process…AND Agresta even admitted that the Art X process really didn’t even have a plan or provision for what was happening to us in terms of when this application should end…in other words sorry you’re screwed….yet everyone sat there so politely and swallowed the whole damn thing! 

We politely like obedient good cattle got herded into the chute and took the bullet right between the eyes! 

Then the good sheep like Wiley even go home and post on his blog how responsible this all is to be in the Art. X system and how wonderful our town leaders are operating within it.

What I think really happened was Agresta carefully questioned and manipulated the BP lawyer John Harris to prep the community that BP might have a buyer and don’t get your hopes up that the Art. X process is going to do anything to start them over or end the community suffering and that with no time frame this could drag on for years!!!  Oh... but we will “look at it” again in a few months ….maybe!  Another bullet to the head of the herd.

Now the town wants to say or do something “legal” when the Agresta decision comes if they don’t like it.  What…. another polite beat them softly over the head with another freakin letter to once again whine about our situation????

Like the numerous letters they have already written that have gone absolutely nowhere.