Bob writes:
Should a belligerent animal abuser be district attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts?
1. Jarrett Barrios on "Humane Treatment."
2. Commencement of Attack on the Charles River White Geese.
3. Heartless Starvation of the Charles River White Geese.
4. The Boondoggle at Magazine Beach.
5. Berlin Air Lift.
6. What Does Barrios Deserve?
1. Jarrett Barrios on "Humane Treatment."
In the year 2000, then State Representative Jarrett Barrios went on Cambridge Community Television to complain that I had proposed to assassinate him.
I had posted fliers about the Cambridgeport neighborhood sarcastically proposing “humane treatment” for him as he had, in August 2000, proposed for the Charles River White Geese in a letter to the editor in the Cambridge Chronicle. Strange, when he said it, it sounded so lovely, but when I said it about him, he called it a proposal to assassinate him.
2. Commencement of Attack on the Charles River White Geese.
Barrios’ plans for the Charles River White Geese started to be implemented in October 1999 when Boston University, on behalf of the then called “Metropolitan District Commission” illegally destroyed the nesting area of the Charles River White Geese.
3. Heartless Starvation of the Charles River White Geese.
In September 2004, Barrios and his buddies destroyed access by the Charles River White Geese to the balance of their 25 year habitat. The habitat has run for half a mile on the Charles River in Cambridge on either side of the Boston University Bridge.
Barrios’ allies in the City of Cambridge working with the now called “Department of Conservation and Resources” finished a pollution control project across from the Hyatt Regency Hotel. They left a wall barring admission from the Charles River to the luscious grass between the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the Charles, grass where the Charles River White Geese had fed and walked their babies for 25 years. Last I saw, that wall was still there.
On the eastern end of the habitat, work was done with funds that started out with the City of Cambridge. An unreliable source, the manager in charge for the DCR/MDC, says they changed the pot of money being used, apparently after the public heard about it. The unreliable source says the money was changed from the City of Cambridge to the DCR/MDC.
4. The Boondoggle at Magazine Beach.
Native wetlands vegetation was heartlessly destroyed. Habitat shared by animals and humans for more than 50 years was destroyed. Access was barred to the Charles River White Geese to an area where they had fed for 25 years.
Bizarre designer bushes were introduced walling off the Magazine Beach playing fields from the Charles River. This project was delayed, according to the same unreliable source, because the introduced vegetation behaved like introduced vegetation, it had trouble growing.
So starvation has been the rule by edict of Barrios and his buddies throughout the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.
5. Berlin Air Lift.
Decent human beings have conducted a Berlin air lift. Decent human beings have imported food into the habitat of the Charles River White Geese to feed the Charles River White Geese, when what they really need is access to food they have been eating for 25 years, now walled off.
6. What Does Barrios Deserve?
Barrios thinks he should be rewarded. Barrios thinks he should be elected to District Attorney of the county in which his starvation zone is located.
My personal attitude is that heartless animal abusers should be jailed, not elected District Attorney.
