1. No intent to claim positive behavior in other members of the Cambridge Machine.
2. The one comparable public pronouncement — Jarrett Barrios.
3. Barrios and McGovern succinctly.
4. McGovern’s explanation belied.
1. No intent to claim positive behavior in other members of the Cambridge Machine.
Earlier today, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/re-cambridge-ma-usa-machine-rejects.html, I reported on the shunning of two statesmanlike people in Cambridge by the Cambridge Machine.
I made a comment “McGovern is one of the few members of the Cambridge Machine who publicly supported the destruction at Magazine Beach.”
It would be totally false to interpret my comment in any way to interpret meaningful levels of environmental responsibility in any visible member of the Cambridge Machine. The routine is always to do terrible things as secretly as possible and then lie, lie, lie about environmental sainthood.
Newly elected Cambridge City Councilor McGovern, at the beginning of this mess, put his support for destruction on Magazine Beach into a Letter to the Editor in the Cambridge Chronicle.
2. The one comparable public pronouncement — Jarrett Barrios.
The only other Cambridge Pol to go so public with regard to such an outrage has been then State Representative Jarrett Barrios. Barrios, with the falsely named Massachusetts Society for Protection Against Cruelty to Animals, cosigned a letter to the editor published in the Cambridge Chronicle which was comparable to McGovern’s letter.
The Barrios letter dripped with saccharine, reasonableness and political correctness. Barrios proposed “humane treatment” for the Charles River White Geese. He sounded oh, so reasonable, and oh, so good.
Barrios clarified the meaning of his letter to the editor in an appearance on Cambridge Cable the following weekend.
In the meantime, I splattered the neighborhood with a flier going into great detail about Barrios’ letter, which had appeared in the Thursday Cambridge Chronicle. My letter responded to the Barrios letter’s saccharine holiness, point by point. I, in my conclusion, with extreme and very clear sarcasm, proposed “humane treatment” for Barrios.
Barrios indignantly appeared on Cambridge Cable that Sunday, an hour after my show concluded. He accused me of advocating his “assassination.”
3. Barrios and McGovern succinctly.
Barrios and McGovern are more public than the rest of the Cambridge Machine. They, as is the custom in Cambridge, have been and are running as far away from their irresponsible environmental record as they can.
4. McGovern’s explanation belied.
Interestingly, with regard to McGovern, McGovern claimed that he was only for “improvement” of the public facilities at Magazine Beach and had no responsibility whatsoever for any and all negative consequences.
Even if that were not total nonsense, the reality is that there is nothing positive that has been done at Magazine Beach that could not have been done without the destructiveness.
The state and Cambridge have even reduced the size of the playing fields in order to drain off poisons which should not be dropped on the banks of the Charles River in the first place. He bragged of improvement of the playing fields.
But McGovern’s “concern” for public facilities does not extend to objecting to the reality that he was lied to and that he achieved exactly the opposite of what he claimed to stand for This is not even counting the multiple, blatant outrages, all of which were accomplished in direct violation of promises made or done otherwise in secret.
The poor dear. Not only has he accomplished exactly the opposite of what he claimed to be doing, but he is very clearly happy with achieving the opposite of what he claimed to be doing.
That is the way things are done in Cambridge, MA, USA.
