Government and Society – Page 6 – Rural Tompkins County

“The World According to Doctrine” — What does being the poorest, most . . .

Exposing misconduct, corruption, and cronyism in Tompkins County is not just digging into the past – it’s yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

“Tompkins County and Tammany Hall” documented only small piece of the overarching policies and actions that dominate and control the lives of the county’s rural residents – and includes nothing that has occurred since its publication.

An unfinished and unpublished companion piece to the “Truck Route” chapter [Road Weary] has even more jaw-dropping disclosures of the actions of local and County authorities; and their ongoing displacement and oppression of the rural community – actions that only those who feel beyond the reach of social justice and legal oversight would commit.

I have sent copies of the book to many people who, I thought, would be open to change – without even getting an acknowledgement – and bringing readers up to date would do nothing to change the situation – it would only increase the “body count.”

It’s hopeless – but I have a plan – as my cousin used to say: “Don’t force it; get a bigger hammer.”

“The World According to Doctrine” — More Urbites 8: “Redacted Policy Making”

Looking at the inner workings; without being able to see the inner workings – is a common occurrence with those trying to participate in Tompkins County government.

Public policy is decided and ratified privately. Take it, or leave it: there’s nothing you can do about it.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color”

The most grinding thoughts in our oily Social Policy machine; come from those we most respect — While apologists and toadies scour their writings: Gathering fragments of their broken dream – to reassemble an entirely different one.

“The World According to Doctrine” — More Urbites 5

It’s not what you do: it’s who you are – never more so than now. In a country that’s still covering up for their biggest polluters; how far away are we from doing anything about it? If they can’t have the world: no one can.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Form Based Code Cornell [formerly Lansing] NY

Form Based Codes are a simplified form; for a simplified government: themselves. Form Based Codes bring zoning into line with modern authoritative thinking: 100% public comments – 0% meaningful participation.

Form Based Codes are the perfect tool for Urban Colonialism: the preservation of urban spaces – and the resettlement and destruction of the rural community. A “streamlined” tool for taking.

“The real tragedy of these small enclaves of marginality and poverty is that people are playing a game of life that has been structured in such a way that they are required to play but prevented from winning.” — Janet Fitchen, “Poverty in Rural America”

In rural New York; No one can hear you scream.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Is there a “Robbery gone good”?

With victims dismissively reduced to “complainants,” and murders spin-doctored down to “a robbery gone bad” – we should ask our increasingly distant government: “Is there a ‘robbery gone good’?”

Would that be a robbery with just the threat of violence? Or is it any amount of injury short of death? Authorities seem able to rationalize, and minimize, our suffering – and while some people may admire their ability to make so measured a judgement: it brings little relief to the nightmares of victims – only the closure of a file drawer.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Does legality give legitimacy?

“Discrimination is against the Law.” That’s a lie. Discrimination IS the law – “lawful discrimination,” that is.

You can walk both sides of a one-way street – If you’re certain that your talk and all your actions never meet.

Full disclosure – Full exposure of all government policies and statistics. Goodness doesn’t need to hide.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “A tool of Cultural Genocide”

No it’s not–Yes it is – The evidence is everywhere. Cultural Genocide is “the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people” – and the best way to do that is by removing that culture from public observance and awareness.

It’s demeaning to be categorized by what you’re not: and while apologists point out that the category; “Non-Hispanic white” was created by the Census Bureau – what is their excuse for our government refusing to change it?

Our government’s institutional partners, like AARP revise their calendars to designate March as “Women’s History Month” – with no mention of Irish History at all — and the History Channel banners “Women’s History Month” continuously; to the exclusion of Irish contributions to our country’s history.

The AARP calendar only designates months for Native Americans, Blacks, Women, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Pride — all groups who support policies of race, gender, and ethnic discrimination.

Dare to debate.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Global Warming: Science sees a thermometer

Even when Science is about people – it’s not for people: it’s a detached attitude that sees Global Warming as a matter of degrees – not disasters. It’s a perspective that elevates observation above compassion, or responsibility.

We’re cooking a pot of unsustainable policies; while Science monitors the safe temperature guidelines. How hot is it? Hot as Hell.

“The World According to Doctrine” — The New Occam’s Razor: the only explanation

These days; the bell-shaped curve only rings true in the center – and the only explanation is the authoritative one. In the past; people thought – now they’re just taught.