.On the one hand , we have Councillr Gertner's clearly and publicly acknowledged lack of understanding of the significance of the Oath of Office.
On the other, the lust for power to punish....retaliate, mete out the lash, take revenge while claiming to be functioning at "a gold standard of behaviour"in keeping with the privilege of holding public office.
It's an odd paradox.
In the Middle Ages, Spain had the Inquisition . . Priests high and low spent time devising instruments of torture, never heard of before ,to punish real or imagined heretics to the one true faith.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
In recent history, Americans had McCarthyism and the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities.
Citizen's lives were ruined by a national paranoia sparked by a single individual. Normally fair-minded individuals were silenced for a time by fear of being named by the lunatic Senator from Maine. Others gave up the names of their friends to save their own skin.
The enemy was not without.It was within.
There will always be a special place in history for Hitler's Nazism and that idea of order in the universe.
Few countries were without sin. Including Canada. Ships wre not allowed to dock and disembark thousands of refugees desperately seeking safe haven.
Here in Aurora, in the year 2013, three puny politicians publicly express regret over loss of power to punish or retaliate against whoever might disagree with their doctrine and interpretation of Rights guaranteed by a Charter enfolded in our Nation's Constitution and signed into law as recently as 1984.
All it needs for them to succeed is for the rest of us to bow our heads in acquiescence and pretend it isn't happening.
Not here. Not in Aurora.
Yes here. Yes in Aurora.
They did it.
Most of them paid a price.
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I don't know the specifics yet but Hazel seems to have dodged the bullet!
Joseph McCarthy was actually a Senator from Wisconsin.
He died at age 48 from acute hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver caused by alcoholism.
It's too bad he didn't drink twice as much and die at age 38.
A lot of people would have been spared much grief.
It seems there is a trio of troglodytes on Aurora council.
They are perfectly defined below.
According to one source they seem "to have emerged from the mists of time untouched by human evolution. They are devoid of a single progressive idea and lack the slightest awareness of social and cultural advances."
Their incoherent political philosophy most accurately can be described as "bigoted narcissism."
They are aggressive in their posturing which often frightens off weaker, more timid creatures. But they easily lose control and the attack quickly degenerates into a rant.
Sound familiar?
11:41... Why should the details get in the way? Especially wrong ones?
Under your stream for Code of Ethics, I think we should add Senator Wallin's reasoning for her current mess, " It was all a mistake ". That dratted paper work got ahead of her for a few years.
Awesome!
12:54 PM
It is a lovely day & here you are with your perpetual nagging. Could you please, just once, contribute something positive consisting of more than a line or two of bile?
Perpetual nagging, 3:14 PM? "Physician, heal thyself."
This is cool!
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