1. General.
2. Michael Vick.
3. Joe Paterno.
4. Summary.
1. General.
The Cambridge pols live in their own world. It is a world strikingly different from the world that their massive organization brags about.
This fake world is achieved by a whole bunch of lovely words on matters which generally are not within their powers or barely within their powers, combined with taking really bad actions as secretly as possible.
The voters got rid of a very bad City Councilor from an environmental point of view. He was quoted as saying in public words very similar to the words the Cambridge pols have quite constantly used about their animal victims. This time, he said those words with regard to the woman whose life the Cambridge City Manager destroyed because she had the nerve to file a civil rights complaint.
To me, it is all one mentality, and to a lot of people it is all one mentality.
People who are heartless animal abusers have a distressing tendency to graduate to human beings and, really, listening to a whole bunch of different types of abusers sounds very much alike.
One thing in common is the demeaning of the victim.
And that was exactly what the soon to be former city councilor did with regard to Malvina Monteiro. He and other members of the city council were questioned on the case and they reportedly responded that [destroying her life] was no big thing.
Responsible outsiders have emphatically shown disgust and contempt for the destruction of Malvina Monteiro’s life, and responsible outsiders are routinely shocked by Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s heartless abuse of animals.
The one thing the Cambridge pols have most going for them is their own non stop self lauding based on matters which are at most peripheral to their real responsibilities.
2. Michael Vick.
Vick certainly did some terrible things in his dog fighting outrages. He has gone to jail and he has reformed.
The outrages on the Charles River continue unabated as part of truly bizarre proposals.
The plans to make things worse continue unabated.
The contempt for living beings is being reenforced as part of the animal pogrom going on at Alewife, again as part of a truly bizarre package.
Vick is repentant and smaller scale.
Cambridge and the DCR are making things much, much worse.
It is an insult to Vick to compare him to these people.
3. Joe Paterno.
Joe Paterno is a saint at Penn State because of his very long football success combined with his demands of quality scholarship from his players.
He has been fired because of a continuing series of allegations about sexual abuse of children by an assistant with failure to act by Paterno.
The first and most important thing to say about Paterno is that the alleged culprit is exactly that, alleged, and he denies the behavior.
The Cambridge City Manager continues to say he did nothing wrong with regard to Malvina Monteiro.
The jury, the trial judge and the appeals court very strongly disagree.
The jury calculated $1.1 million actual damages. They awarded an essentially unprecedented $3.5 million in penal damages to communicate their feelings.
The judge agreed with the jury and used the word “reprehensible.”
The appeals court would not dignify the appeal with a formal opinion.
The appeals court, in their informal comments, spoke of “ample evidence [of] outrageous actions.”
The response of the Cambridge pols:
Exactly zero Cambridge City Councilors want to fire the Cambridge City Manager for his proven and adjudged destruction of the life of Malvina Montero in retaliation for her filing a civil rights complaint.
Five Cambridge City Council incumbents, reduced to four with the unelection of one, are committed IN ADVANCE to rehiring the City Manager in the coming contract discussions. Three other incumbents and the newly elected councilor are noncommittal.
Paterno has well earned his very great lauding as part of his football legacy.
Paterno was summarily thrown out of his job for failure to supervise.
4. Summary.
Cambridge, MA, USA, has a really rotten city government.
