Plans Are Underway to Change Your Landscape Forever
This add was published in this weeks edition of the Thousand Islands Sun~ read it and weep
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The fact someone had to go to the trouble to produce this flier and the expense to distribute it to 7,000 households is a testimony to our north country apathy and lethargy.
Imagine transforming our beautiful Thousand Islands region into an industrial zone, one that not only is a blight aesthetically, but stands to affect the health and safety of local residents.
How can we possibly be considering this kind of development, this kind of altered future for our communities, while many of the region's residents sit on their collective asses in from of a flat screen watching people scream at one another or make bad love to one another?
It is remarkable that what is being proposed for our region is a life-altering proposal, one that should grab everyone's attention. Moreover, the issue of wind development is not only about bad technology run amuck in the pursuit of the buck, but it is about the buck corrupting local officials.
Why is it that we still lie around with a remote in our hands while some would steal our quality of life? Perhaps it is because people now live in their cocoons with their flatscreens, computers and smart phones. Perhaps no one spends as much time in the Thousand Islands beautiful natural settings. Who knows?
Regardless, thank you to those of us who are mad as hell and won't take it any more. Those who have taken action and will continue to take action. Hopefully, they may get a rise out of a few so that they attend some town meetings and get just as pissed as the rest of us.
Many people have been working very hard to save the Thousand islands from wanton misuse under a misguided attempt to site a completely wrong infrastructure here. But some key people are taking a pass while others exert the effort for them.
I have been a non-stop defender and proponent of the need to protect the rights and prerogatives of seasonal residents of the area. I am one.
But it is beginning to really tick me off when I encounter some of the seasonal residents of the area who have huge investments in beautiful homes, and plenty of potential influence($)to bring to bear, who still choose to put their heads in the sand on this wind madness. They say they don't retreat to the Thousand Islands from their "demanding" lives in order to get dragged into local "squabbles."
Well -- this is no squabble. The fate of the TI region is at stake. If you -- and you know who you are - continue to shy away from this issue, you do so at your peril and the peril of all of us.
6:21 Apathy and lethargy are two unfortunate consequences of our democratic system of representative government. Case in point-the recent ART 10 legislation, approved by our governor and elected State legislators. Banking on the unwillingness of present day citizens to rebel against legal oppression ,the New York State government has stolen the constitutional right to self-govern from the people,with nary a whimper of protest.
Even with well intentioned actions such as this informational flier ,the real necessary, crucial battle is not being fought, as long as the State retains its authority to over-rule any local municpal zoning laws.
Call it lethargy,apathy, concession, resignation, being reasonable, call it whatever you want, the simple fact is we have allowed the state to abrogate our autonomy as regards home rule on land use issues,without a bonafide protest.
The decision to preserve the 1000 Islands is not ours to make.
Justin Taylor, the Supervisor of the Town of Clayton is willing to give the Thousand Islands to Iberdrola and British Petroleum.
Jack did better than that when he traded his mother's cow for magic beans. Justin Taylor will not even get a beanstalk out of the deal that he can climb and survey his damage.
I'm tired of this constitutional horse crap. The game being played is Article 10. There are rules to the game. The clock has started and the game is underway. Anyone who stands there and doesn't play loses by default. If you have a tantrum you'll be removed from the playing field and you won't stop the game. That's the way it was on the playground and that's the way it is being played today in the Article 10 game. So, you constitutional rights advocates suck it up or else do something besides whine and complain.
I hear that Justin Taylor might be in a snit, hates the blogs and his Wed 26 meeting with Bee Pee is his meeting and he won't let people from Cape Vincent speak.
3:30 Albany is tired of this "constitutional horse crap"too. Thats why they confidently stole our rights because they knew they could count on the majority of law abiding, reasonable citizens,such as yourself to go along with the game. You were probably the role model they used to describe how easy it would be to convince the citizens they don't need any rights to self-govern. Just suck it up, and play.
One can easily see you're not apathetic or lethargic, just willing to be told what to do.
Andrew Cuomo loves you. You make his oppressive policies possible.
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The fact someone had to go to the trouble to produce this flier and the expense to distribute it to 7,000 households is a testimony to our north country apathy and lethargy.
Imagine transforming our beautiful Thousand Islands region into an industrial zone, one that not only is a blight aesthetically, but stands to affect the health and safety of local residents.
How can we possibly be considering this kind of development, this kind of altered future for our communities, while many of the region's residents sit on their collective asses in from of a flat screen watching people scream at one another or make bad love to one another?
It is remarkable that what is being proposed for our region is a life-altering proposal, one that should grab everyone's attention. Moreover, the issue of wind development is not only about bad technology run amuck in the pursuit of the buck, but it is about the buck corrupting local officials.
Why is it that we still lie around with a remote in our hands while some would steal our quality of life? Perhaps it is because people now live in their cocoons with their flatscreens, computers and smart phones. Perhaps no one spends as much time in the Thousand Islands beautiful natural settings. Who knows?
Regardless, thank you to those of us who are mad as hell and won't take it any more. Those who have taken action and will continue to take action. Hopefully, they may get a rise out of a few so that they attend some town meetings and get just as pissed as the rest of us.
Yup!
Many people have been working very hard to save the Thousand islands from wanton misuse under a misguided attempt to site a completely wrong infrastructure here. But some key people are taking a pass while others exert the effort for them.
I have been a non-stop defender and proponent of the need to protect the rights and prerogatives of seasonal residents of the area. I am one.
But it is beginning to really tick me off when I encounter some of the seasonal residents of the area who have huge investments in beautiful homes, and plenty of potential influence($)to bring to bear, who still choose to put their heads in the sand on this wind madness. They say they don't retreat to the Thousand Islands from their "demanding" lives in order to get dragged into local "squabbles."
Well -- this is no squabble. The fate of the TI region is at stake. If you -- and you know who you are - continue to shy away from this issue, you do so at your peril and the peril of all of us.
6:21 Apathy and lethargy are two unfortunate consequences of our democratic system of representative government. Case in point-the recent ART 10 legislation, approved by our governor and elected State legislators. Banking on the unwillingness of present day citizens to rebel against legal oppression ,the New York State government has stolen the constitutional right to self-govern from the people,with nary a whimper of protest.
Even with well intentioned actions such as this informational flier ,the real necessary, crucial battle is not being fought, as long as the State retains its authority to over-rule any local municpal zoning laws.
Call it lethargy,apathy, concession, resignation, being reasonable, call it whatever you want, the simple fact is we have allowed the state to abrogate our autonomy as regards home rule on land use issues,without a bonafide protest.
The decision to preserve the 1000 Islands is not ours to make.
Who is "we?"
And guess what.
Justin Taylor, the Supervisor of the Town of Clayton is willing to give the Thousand Islands to Iberdrola and British Petroleum.
Jack did better than that when he traded his mother's cow for magic beans. Justin Taylor will not even get a beanstalk out of the deal that he can climb and survey his damage.
Jef. Co. MSM is missing one hell of a story
9:59 "we" are the people of New York.
I'm tired of this constitutional horse crap. The game being played is Article 10. There are rules to the game. The clock has started and the game is underway. Anyone who stands there and doesn't play loses by default. If you have a tantrum you'll be removed from the playing field and you won't stop the game. That's the way it was on the playground and that's the way it is being played today in the Article 10 game. So, you constitutional rights advocates suck it up or else do something besides whine and complain.
Yup!
I hear that Justin Taylor might be in a snit, hates the blogs and his Wed 26 meeting with Bee Pee is his meeting and he won't let people from Cape Vincent speak.
Would the "YUP" Person please have a thought of your own!
3:30 Albany is tired of this "constitutional horse crap"too. Thats why they confidently stole our rights because they knew they could count on the majority of law abiding, reasonable citizens,such as yourself to go along with the game. You were probably the role model they used to describe how easy it would be to convince the citizens they don't need any rights to self-govern. Just suck it up, and play.
One can easily see you're not apathetic or lethargic, just willing to be told what to do.
Andrew Cuomo loves you. You make his oppressive policies possible.
6:40
So what have you done?
Some people prefer to piss and moan rather than roll up their sleeves.
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