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“The World According to Doctrine” — They keep changing lenses

Tompkins County policies are all about following the money – and their policy making is all about finding a usable lens that excuses it.

The Town of Lansing’s AG Zoning District re-zones agricultural activities along the lake to Lakeshore residences: because those areas “are environmentally sensitive” and “potential problems related to steep slopes” [and because rich people want lakeshore houses] – but ignores mile after mile of equally steep slopes of unbuffered agricultural activity along nearby Salmon Creek: one of the major sources of agricultural pollution and impairment of the lake.

Preservation of agriculture is so important that the AG Zoning District radically changes the zoning and allowed activities of a 200 year old rural community: leaving poor non-farming landowners no choice; but to sell out to the rich farming interests – or go under through a regressive tax structure.

And behind it all is Cornell: making lenses for their friends.

Tompkins County: where the rich get richer – and the poor get stepped on — all according to plan.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Agricultural Law is a Hate Crime

Non-farming rural residents in New York straddle a line between unborn children: who are not human beings by law – and farmers: who are preferred by law — they are a forced-to-admit-they-are-human classification that is demonized and disposable – the grit in the smoothly oiled Agricultural lobby.

“A hate crime is a crime that is motivated in whole or substantial part by bias against certain personal characteristics.”

Agricultural bias is documented in every policy statement they make, and every regressive zoning law they support – But according to New York State law, there must be an underlying crime in order for an incident to be classified as a hate crime — and if you are disposable: you can’t be a victim – so there can’t be a crime.

In our uncaring society: the line between good and bad is licensable — and Agricultural Law is bought and paid for.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Slavery isn’t based on hate

Slavery isn’t based on hate – it’s based on a denial of individual worth. A belief that people can be used as commodities. The same belief that fosters slavery – is the same belief that populates today’s legislation. Beware.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Rebranding Bigotry

Rebranding isn’t just for changing the corporate image of an organization – it’s become a marketing strategy for every evil that has oppressed people throughout history. The idea behind this rebranding is to create a different identity for evil in the minds of the public: evil as a force for good.

Rebranding may relabel evil by pasting “equitable” or “affirmative” on the same acts and attitudes that have destroyed everything they touched; or claim these acts are made from 100% “Greater Good” – as if the steps of evil will eventually lead us to a higher plane of existence.

Rebranding is the tyrant’s tool: Denying the individual worth of human beings – and focusing on profit as the goal of all social interactions.

Evil: Ride for the brand – and be the hide with the brand.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Agricultural Regulations?

Agricultural interests always talk about regulations; because they never want to talk about the results. Agricultural regulations legitimize polluting by creating worthless standards that legally shield the polluters.

The TDML [Total Daily Maximum Load] paradigm sets the maximum level of pollution possible before environmental disaster – and then requires polluters to “try” to meet it.

Decades of Voluntary Guidelines and Nutrient Plans have proven worthless to curb Agriculture’s destruction of the environment – and the health of the rural communities they politically dominate.

The Agricultural sector is the only sector in the US that is still increasing its polluting; and increasing it across the board – from use of fossil fuels, to methane emissions, to nutrient pollution of our water: they are the fuse for global destruction.

The next time you see one of those “green” farm promotions; realize — it’s the polluting that you don’t see that will kill you.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Feet of manure

The foundation of modern animal agriculture is a lot of manure: in both the literal and metaphorical sense.

Industrial farming practices have same relation to traditional manure spreading as the BP oil spill to a grease spot.

Modern farming is a destructive and greedy giant: leaving a toxic print on the rural landscape – a bully trying to sell the image of a much abused victim while getting more perks and privileges than any other interest group.

Take a good look at the feet that our agricultural “progress” is standing on — a shitload of money.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “It is the duty of children . . .”

The problem with Proverbs of Wisdom is that they are “broad spectrum” – and those who want to use one are in danger of being undone by another; or by many others.

Today’s Doctrine forsakes the breadth of wisdom – and extracts and codifies the most useful parts of proverbs from around the world as societal regulations: a way of leveraging taxes and obligations – always taking instead of giving.

There is nothing more foreign to the Doctrine of Entitlement; than the concept of “duty” to anyone but yourself — unless it’s “waiting on elders.”

It may take a village to have a village idiot — but you can’t teach sense to a fool.

“The World According to Doctrine” — modifying ABSOLUTES

In the 60s: Liberals would judge everything by an Absolute measuring stick – “Absolutely this” and “Absolutely that” – until I began calling it the “Litany of Absolutes.”

Today’s Progressives however; never met an absolute that couldn’t be trimmed, shaped, or forced into accommodating anything they wanted.

Channeling Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao — becoming Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao.

A power that forces our ends — Absolutely.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Tompkins County: Corruption isn’t denounced

When the County Highway Director proclaimed a blatant untruth to block a through-truck regulation – and it was proven to be untrue – he never changed or retracted his statement — and not one member of the County Ethics Committee, the County Transportation Committee, or any Town or County official at any level would even mention it. There was just a wall of silence.

And not one of them would speak on the reason for their silence.

Why won’t any of them respond?

Sometimes not saying – is the same as lying.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Making connections

There’s nothing easier than making connections – and the closer to our being; the easier they are to make – that’s why we can make faces out of so many random elements.
But with so many connections: what are the connections that ring the truest – that have practicality at their core?
Yes, there is tremendous amount of gold in sea water: but Gold + Sea water + Investment is not a connection I would recommend to anybody.
Our politicians want to choose what connections we make: and People + Laws = Political Power is the connection they see in every issue.
What if chose our own connections? What a frightening and glorious thought:
People + People = Community – how’s that for a connection.