I. Introduction.
II. Our latest letter, responding to Cambridge City Council “Concerns” about Climate Change.
1. Introduction.
2. MicroCenter Owner Repairs Government Destruction.
3. The Cambridge City Council should give us honesty in government.
I. Introduction.
The world in Cambridge, MA, is a fairy tale world when it comes to the environment.
The Cambridge City Council, its bedmate, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the machine created by the three prior Cambridge City Managers, live in a world where the Cambridge population wants responsible government.
The pols who run this world have contempt for the environment. They are very destructive of it, but they want to stay in office. So they lie, overwhelmingly by yelling at the other guy and doing their own terrible actions as secretly as possible.
They are great at YELLING AT THE OTHER GUY. They are also great at standing abreast with fellow scoundrels and FALSELY praising each other.
This is a very major reason for the outrage on the Charles River, but it is a House of Cards. It is only as good as the machine which keeps lying about reality in the City of Cambridge. It is very much at risk of an electorate which demands responsible government and stops listening to the lying machine.
The relatively small machine which is the basis of this outrage, and to which a destructive city council panders was created by the prior three Cambridge City Managers, the ones before the current incumbent City Manager.
The machine is plodding along on the momentum of three bad City Managers and a City Council whose election has been highly influenced by the lies coming out of that machine.
There are now three new City Councilors on the nine member City Council, plus there are a bunch of incumbents who could lose their office if the electorate realizes just how bad they are on environmental issues.
The following letter was mailed on March 22, in lieu of hand carrying in bad weather to meet a deadline for Monday presentation.
The bad weather turned out not to exist, but the letter was mailed anyway. The letter will get to the Cambridge City Council at its meeting on April 5, a week from Monday. The letter will get to the Cambridge City Manager quite a bit sooner.
The letter is addressed to City Manager and City Council.
One explanation could be of value
The concluding demand is:
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End the environmental outrages planned by the DCR and Cambridge and reverse, insofar as feasible, the many outrages accomplished by the DCR, Cambridge and related entities from November 1, 1999, to the current date.
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The first obvious attack on the animals of the Charles River came when Boston University illegally destroyed the Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese in November 1999. This was the first blatant attack on beautiful animals which are cherished by the public. The love is so great that the DCR had signs up communicating that love and asking for the public to take care for these beautiful animals.
Boston University showed its recognition of its vileness by denying that it did the destruction until six months later when the Cambridge Conservation Commission condemned Boston University for the destruction. Boston University blamed the secretary of its president for six months of lies, but never, to our knowledge, punished her for it. The pattern of repeated outrages and associated falsehoods fits the pattern set by Boston University in November 1999, outrages followed by lies of sainthood. The mantra amounts to: “Do not look at what we are destroying. Look at what we tell you to look at.”
II. Our latest letter, responding to Cambridge City Council “Concerns” about Climate Change.
RE: Charles River: City Council PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT? A property owner works to repair an outrage of the Cambridge City Council.
Gentlemen / Ladies:
1. Introduction.
2. MicroCenter Owner Repairs Government Destruction.
3. The Cambridge City Council should give us honesty in government.
1. Introduction.
We are perplexed by order 6 on March 19, 2018, in which the Cambridge City Council came out against climate change.
The City Council keeps “taking action” which gives a false impression of the side of the issue on which the City Council stands.
Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation just destroyed 150 or so mostly excellent trees on Memorial Drive between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge.
The Cambridge City Council voted in order 1 of April 24, 2017, to support the DCR’s destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees at Magazine Beach.
Fake protectors who have fought for these outrages are now rerouting poisons from the Magazine Beach playing fields into the Charles River.
We have given you multiple letters with extensive photos on these subjects and the City Council is consistently on the wrong side of the issues it claims to support in order 6, or is silent with what amounts to a wink and a nod.
To make it worse, we understand a city councilor intends to join a fake group which is associated with the destruction on the Charles River and to share with this destructive entity ideas on saving trees?
The most important thing the City Council can do to save trees is to change to the side the City Council claims to be on. Above all things, city councilors should not join fake protective groups in what would very clearly be a lie as to which side they are on. Such falsehoods are simply helping destructive villains destroy more things by fooling voters that the fake group is on the side the fake group tells people it is on.
The City Council claims to be in favor of responsible government. Responsible governments honestly communicate with the voters about their records. The key word is “honestly.”
The City Council should be bragging about its record, not joining fellow destroyers in giving people false impressions of protecting the environment on the matters within its jurisdiction which matter the most.
A few subordinate points:
2. MicroCenter Owner Repairs Government Destruction.
Private property owners should not have to repair damage to their property by irresponsible government entities.
But the owner of the MicroCenter lot has apparently done so.
Order 1 of April 24, 2018 [ed:, has not come yet, obviously 2017], gave the DCR a blank check for destruction on the Charles River at Magazine Beach.
Part of the supported proposal included destruction of two trees in front of MicroCenter. The DCR, implementing the glorious support of the Cambridge City Council outdid themselves. They also destroyed two trees in front of the shopping center’s parking lot which the owner had been lovingly caring for.
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The City Council gave them a blank check. Above, AGAIN is a photo of what the City Council got.
The brown mounds around the HEALTHY stubs of trees are mulch. The private property was lovingly caring for what the Cambridge City Council destroyed. As with the outrage of January 2016, it is highly likely that the DCR will leave this outrage as barren land until it accomplishes the rest of the destruction supported by the Cambridge City Council.
The “improvements” put in after January 2016 included far more trees than the 150 wantonly destroyed, trees which a responsible entity would have planted a decade earlier. But they were planted after a massive outrage to give a false impression (as with that councilor talking to the fake group) of what side this destructive entity is on.
Here are photos from March 15, 2018.
First of all, this is what the City Council created through the DCR. The trees destroyed by the City Council have not been replaced and will not be “replaced” until AFTER the City Council and the DCR destroy the rest of the 56 mostly excellent trees being destroyed by order 1 of April 24, 2017, just as in 2016.
Here are the saplings planted by the MicroCenter owner on their property, first, alone photographed from the west, and then photographed from the east along with the trees the Cambridge City Council did not destroy.
Yes, the saplings are a lot smaller than the trees which the City Council destroyed. The two destroyed were identical to the two which were not destroyed.
The fact that saplings are smaller than mature trees is one of the strongest arguments against the very terrible behavior which the Cambridge City Council, its cheerleaders and the DCR are doing.
Mature trees simply cannot be “replaced,” and that is the key lie in the outrage of January 2016 and in the reprehensible order 1 of April 24, 2017.
3. The Cambridge City Council should give us honesty in government.
Stop lying that the City Council is pro environment, or change sides to the side you claim to be on.
To be specific, we request that, consistent with repeated expression of environmental concerns by THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL, the following actions be taken:
A Retract and rescind the City Council’s action on April 24, 2017, in order 1, supporting the destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees and related outrages in the Magazine Beach recreation area.
B. Trash the Department of Conservation and Recreation as manager of all properties under its jurisdiction in Cambridge in favor of replacement by the Department of Transportation.
C. End the environmental outrages planned by the DCR and Cambridge and reverse, insofar as feasible, the many outrages accomplished by the DCR, Cambridge and related entities from November 1, 1999, to the current date.
Sincerely,
Robert J. La Trémouille
Chair, Friends of the White Geese
