1. Introduction.
2. City Managers response.
3. MassDOT.
4. On line master.
5. What You Can Do.
A. Introductory.
B. General.
C. The Institutions.
D. FRIEND THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE ON FACEBOOK.
1. Introduction.
On April 24, 2017, a bunch of Cambridge City Councilors led a rally at the Cambridge City Hall entrance praising themselves for their environmental saintliness.
They proceeded to go to work and, as their first order initiated by the Cambridge City Council, voted to support the destruction by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation of 56 MOSTLY EXCELLENT trees at the Magazine Beach recreation area on the Charles River, and to seek money from the Cambridge City Manager to help the destruction.
Key in the order was the fraudulent claim of “Dead or Dying.”
We debunked that blatant fraud in our 51 page letter with more than 100 graphics submitted to the Cambridge City Council on June 6, 2017. Our response to the blatant fraud is posted by the Cambridge City Clerk on line at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249. This is a massive document which, in turn, is part a massive document ten times its size on line. It is a very long down load. I would be pleased to provide the document by providing a series of emails with 5 PDF files which make up the report. Please contact me at: boblat@yahoo.com.
The City Council asked the City Manager for a report.
2. City Managers response.
At the Cambridge City Council meeting of September 25, 2017, Cambridge City Manager Louis A. DePasquale gave his report. Key in the report was a comment that he would help the DCR in the outrage with Cambridge money, but that the money would have to come from funds for other parts of the City.
On October 2, 2017, the Cambridge City Council received a response from us which hit three points. The following is the response to the Cambridge City Manager: The response ran two pages with the following four photos of doomed trees dominating the response, occupying the right half of the two pages, two per page.
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We strongly appreciate the City Manager individually signing this report. The contents reflect an action of a responsible City Manager.
The City Manager is not directing the City Council. The City Manager is presenting options and awaits decision of the Cambridge City Council at such times as may be deemed appropriate by the Cambridge City Council.
The City Manager agrees to work with the “activists” influenced by the Cambridge Development Department.
He also points out that there are competing needs in the City of Cambridge other than massive destruction and heartless animal abuse at Magazine Beach. [not loudly mentioned by us is the outrageous goal of continuing with poisons on the banks of the Charles River, but support for that goal is also included in Order 1 of April 24, 2017].
Outside the purview of this responsible City Manager is the very great reality that, in the plans at Magazine Beach, the DCR and its influenced “activists” are presenting items of massive destruction highly inconsistent with the lovely environmental self praise given to City Councilors by themselves on the stairs of City Hall before voting for this outrage. See our 51 page letter of June 6, 2017, and the elaborations thereof, posted at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249, and our follow on reports.
Over the years these friends of the Development Department have been fighting for these various outrages, the “activists” have prevented meaningful public discussion of the outrages they have been fighting for with multiple corrupt tactics. With the latest organizational change, the “activists” influenced by the Cambridge Development Department have established a situation where the reality behind the “activists’” belligerent praise for the unpraiseasable will be even further hidden from voter scrutiny.
The legislature has destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission, in part because it was so irresponsible. Its planners, now with the DCR, with Cambridge government support, have implemented massive destruction in accordance with irresponsible Cambridge/MDC plans, as stated in my videos at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o (before and after report on the outrage) and https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA (debunking of the “improvements” lie after the fact).
The City of Cambridge is dealing with an agency whose bureaucrats have long worked with the Cambridge Development Department for irresponsible destruction in Cambridge. The legislature showed its contempt for what is going on on the Charles River when it destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission.
Please comply with the lovely proclamations from the front steps of City Hall on April 24, 2017, and replace this terrible agency with MassDOT.
And kill currently planned outrages. And kill as much as possible the outrages of the 2000s and of 2016.
3. MassDOT.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation received half the former holdings of the MDC when the legislature destroyed the MDC, in part because it was such a belligerently irresponsible agency.
MassDOT got the bridges. DCR got the banks AND THE PLANNERS.
The Planners went to DCR with the MDC’s irresponsible plans and have implemented those irresponsible plans along with Cambridge and the fake groups which look like robots of the Cambridge Development Department.
MassDOT has stood up to Cambridge and the DCR on at least two key outrage proposals. MassDOT is not perfect, but the DCR, Cambridge and the robotic “activists” approach being perfect from the wrong direction.
4. On line master.
The Cambridge City Clerk has published, unedited, our letter at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1846&Inline=True, pages 153 to 158.
This is a 51 page document in a combined city document running hundreds of pages. It is a long download. We would be pleased to provide an email sized PDF copy of our portion in response to your request to boblat@yahoo.com.
5. What You Can Do.
A. Introductory.
What we need is:
● End the accelerating Charles River destruction by the DCR and by Cambridge.
● Give DCR duties, powers & funds on the Charles River to MassDOT. Trash the bizarre bush wall walling off Charles. End poison use on the Charles’ banks.
● Tell the Cambridge City Council and new City Manager Louis DePasquale to end the destruction, the fake groups and the 42 year long 3 City Manager Machine.
There are two general categories of possible assistance.
B. General.
There are two entities who are a waste of time, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the Cambridge Development Department.
These entities as they have existed for the last 42 years (counting the prior entity which was replaced by the DCR) need to be destroyed, not talked to.
The Cambridge City Manager needs to clean house. A much more detailed analysis is in my letter of welcome to him, posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-trust-cambridge-ma-usas.html.
Here are the key contacts. I hope you can make them. I apologize that a lot of contacts are given through yet another link. The reason for the additional link for legislators is that that gives me only one place to change rather than trying to change every document.
Governor Charles Baker (DCR): 617-725-4005, email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituent-services/contact-governor-office
Cambridge City Manager Louis A. DePasquale, 617-349-4300, ldepasquale@cambridgema.gov
Legislators: 617-722-2000, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/201304/emails-for-all massachusetts.html
Cambridge City Council. Call them at 617-349-4280, or
Email your comments care of the Cambridge City Clerk. Request that the City Clerk present your entire message to the Cambridge City Council at their next meeting. The Email address is: dlopez@cambridgema.gov
C. The Institutions.
Since 2011, these reports have been read in 106 countries, at last count. It is reasonable to assume that such vast a variety of reading may be by people with contacts in the three key institutions.
The three key institutions involved are:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is fighting for its personal exit from I90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) in a situation where meaningful activists previously defeated a super highway going through pretty much the same area. So fraud is normal. Similarly, most of Memorial Drive between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge has been and is being turned into an area which is effectively the personal enclave of MIT.
Boston University. This is turf which BU has started to claim for itself. BU did the first destruction as part of its seeking to make this more clearly its turf. A lot of the fine print makes the key areas more hospital to BU. Boston University has conducted graduation activities in the Magazine Beach recreation area.
Harvard University. Harvard is turning the Boston side of the Charles River even more into its private domain with its impending relocation of Harvard Medical School and other facilities into an area in Boston visible from the Cambridge side of the Charles River.
Anybody with contacts with MIT, BU and Harvard knows the contacts better than we do.
Please contact.
D. FRIEND THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE ON FACEBOOK.
The Charles River White Geese have lived on the Charles River since 1981. They are beautiful and loved, a very real tourist attraction. Having lived so long so close to densely populated cities, they well deserved to be studied and praised, not destroyed piece by piece. Their habitat can and should be returned. The barriers to their long time home and food should be removed.
Where they live, other much less visible but very real free animals also live.
Cambridge and the DCR are heartlessly abusing free animals on the Charles River. The DCR PUBLICLY states a desire to kill off or drive away all resident animals on the Charles River Basin. Cambridge and the DCR are unfit to manage the environment. They, particularly the Cambridge City Council, combine their lack of fitness with non stop lies of environmental sainthood.
In the fine print is that proposed off ramp from I90 to MIT in a location where Cambridge brags a super highway was killed by MEANINGFUL PROTECTIVE GROUPS 50 years ago, as opposed to highly visible but fake protective groups with connections to the Cambridge government which have been carefully created and nurtured in the decades since that victory. The replacement highway is having its grounds set through stalking horses, deception and multiple outrages. Naturally, the replacement highway would destroy areas most valuable to free animals.
Here is a plaque which was included in a propaganda show about the Charles River conducted over an extended period in the Cambridge City Hall Annex.
Animals should not be driven off the face of our earth. It is outrageous that these reprehensible government entities, lying about themselves, want to destroy what little sanctuaries free animals have left. Their sanctuaries should be cherished and returned to the status quo of the beginning of this Millennium.
It is reprehensible that, lurking behind the government destructions, are institutions which proclaim themselves throughout the world as enlightened.
The Charles River White Geese are a very visible and beloved symbol of what should be cherished, not destroyed.
The list of friends on Facebook is a very visible show of decency standing up to truly vile government entities and their related “non profit” institutions.
