Website Reestablished

Website Reestablished.

Our website has been FAR less than ideal for quite awhile.

Phil Barber has been kind enough to clean up the situation and to reestablish the website.

He has done an extremely good job.

It may be found at http://focrwg.com.

His skill and efforts are strongly appreciated.

Any and all comments and suggestions would be appreciated from you.

Please direct comments to me at boblat@yahoo.com.

Thank you.

Charles River: More funds for destruction at Magazine Beach.

RE:    Charles River:  More funds for destruction at Magazine Beach.

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Six members of the current nine member Cambridge City Council voted to destroy this excellent grove overhanging the Magazine Beach Playing Fields with exactly the opposite of public process.

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1. Introduction.
2. Truly vile vote by six of the nine current city council members.
3. Game is a shell game with money.
4. Even the supposed target has been obtained by fraud.
5. The project is so irresponsible that the leader of the fight for destruction keeps the destruction secret from her own fake neighborhood association.
6. The reality obscured by non stop smoke screens.
A. First of all the Starvation Wall, photos above.
B. Secondly, the poisons first introduced in the 2000's outrage.
C. Introduction of Invasives.
D. The Destruction of 3.4 acres of the Alewife Reservation / Silver Maple Forest.
E. The destruction of the magnificent grove at the Harvard Square end of the Cambridge Common.
F. The destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.
7. The Cambridge City Council should give us honesty in government.

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Six members of the current nine member Cambridge City Council voted to destroy this magnificent willow overhanging the Magazine Beach Playing Fields with exactly the opposite of public process.

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1. Introduction.

Another shoe has dropped.

The Cambridge City Manager is being a loyal servant of a destructive city council which constantly lies about environmental sainthood..

Monday night, the budget for Cambridge’s next fiscal year is being voted on.  After an extended review of a lot of money which did not include destruction funds, the City Manager is adding destruction money at the latest possible minute.

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Six members of the current nine member Cambridge City Council voted to destroy this magnificent park with exactly the opposite of public process.

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The City Manager, in an action not announced during the budget project, is asking the Cambridge City Council for an additional $44,000 as part of the outrage ongoing at Magazine Beach.

This $44,000 was not included in the extended budget presentation which the city council has undergone.

It is in addition to $25,000 sneaked into the budget for the current fiscal year under false colors.

This request is bad on, at many counts.

2. Truly vile vote by six of the nine current city council members.

On April 24, 2017, a bunch of city councilors declared themselves environmental saints on the stairs of Cambridge City Hall.  Then they stepped inside and as their first order of business went on record supporting destruction of 56 mostly excellent trees in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area and related destruction.  The City Council used the flat out lie “dead or dying” with regard to those trees.

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Seven magnificent trees, all admitted excellent in the skilled fraud of "tree evaluation" by the DCR, across from the MicroCenter parking lot.  Voted to be destroyed by six members of the current nine member city council with exactly the opposite of public process.

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Commonly major actions are publicly debated in Cambridge.  UNLESS THEY ARE DIRTY ACTIONS.  Dirty actions are done as secretly as possible, with smoke and mirrors to lie about which side the City Council is on.  And one of the “environmentalist” city councilors voting for this destruction with EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF PUBLIC PROCESS, is now running around bragging about the PUBLIC PROCESS SHE WILL CREATE WHICH DOES NOT PREVENT THIS SORT OF OUTRAGE AGAIN.

“Dead or dying” used in that motion was a totally unjustified expansion on skillful fraud by the Department of Conservation and Recreation for the DCR’s wish to destroy all these excellent trees.

I have debunked this flat out lie by multiple, detailed responses.  The biggest and the most basic was our letter of June 6, 2017 which analyzed every tree in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.

That letter is posted in city records at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249.

3. Game is a shell game with money.

The funding of the fake “NEW” boat dock is the same stunt the DCR and the Cambridge City Council accomplished during the outrages of the 2000's.

One pot of money.  The Cambridge City Council pays for the “clean” work.  The DCR pays for the dirty work.

But it is all one pot of money.  Without the “clean” part being paid by the Cambridge City Council, there is that much less to destroy trees with.

And the city council is being asked to add $44,000 to the destruction fund on Monday night.

4. Even the supposed target has been obtained by fraud.

Throughout the “planning process,” the money has supposedly been for a “new dock”.  The City Manager has admitted that it is not a new dock.  It is a matter of undoing the obstacles installed to prevent use of the dock of the 20th Century.  At the same time, it appears that it could be adding more obstacles to use.

Here is the apparently fraudulent plan on which the dock proposal was based.  It is admitted to be a renovation, not the falsely advertised “new dock”.

There is no way this is a dock on a grassy knoll unless the DCR removes stubs created by fake environmental protectors by lowering part of the Starvation Wall which hides the Charles River from the playing fields.

If the DCR removes the stubs, the DCR will prove as lies its claims that it cannot clean up the ADMITTEDLY HATED Starvation Wall.  The DCR has claimed it cannot undo the outrageous Starvation Wall created by it and the Cambridge City Council.  The Starvation Wall has no meaningful use except the deliberate starvation of the 37 year resident Charles River White Geese.

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Lied as new.  In reality a possible further blocking of the Charles River White Geese while closing obstacles created.  

Actions taken so far indicate that the Starvation Wall in this area has been temporarily reduced to stubs which are still adequate to prevent feeding by the Charles River White Geese at their home of most of the last 37 years.

The destroyed boat dock is the brown area.  PART of the STARVATION WALL on both sides has been reduced to stubs which continue the deliberate starvation of the Charles River White Geese.  The blocking of view of the Charles River through this TINY PORTION will regrow in the 6 years which it took this outrage to grow.

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That bizarre wall “serves a purpose.”  It starves the Charles River White Geese as part of the DCR and City of Cambridge’s fight to kill or drive off all resident animals on the Charles River.

5. The project is so irresponsible that the leader of the fight for destruction keeps the destruction secret from her own fake neighborhood association.

Last Thursday night, the woman who personally embodies this fight for massive destruction on Magazine Beach put on yet another lying presentation of “protecting trees.”  This was a city councilor bragging about yet more process.  The city council has been bragging about process non stop during the outrages accomplished by the City Council this millenium, and telling people not to look at the terrible things they are doing.

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Cambridge City Hall annex during propaganda show led by the same destructive person, and bragging of environmental destruction on the Charles.  This brags of heartless animal abuse.

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THIS DESTRUCTION LEADER IS RIGHTFULLY SCARED OF COMMUNICATING WHAT SHE IS DOING TO THE MEMBERS OF HER FAKE GROUP.

SHE KNOWS THAT DECENT HUMAN BEINGS WILL NOT KNOWINGLY SUPPORT THIS OUTRAGE.

So she put on a City Councilor who voted for destruction to present a pitch about “concern” by bragging about process, YET AGAIN.  When questioned about the April 24, 2017 vote, the City Councilor would not answer, and went back to the smoke screen.  PROCESS, PROCESS, PROCESS.  HOW DARE YOU LOOK AT REALITY!

The lead destroyer told me to look at publicly available records to determine what that says about the destruction she is fighting for.

She very clearly reaffirmed her intent to keep her planned outrages and the City Council’s as much out of the voters eye, and out of the eye of her fake “protective group” as she and the City Council can do while lying about supposedly responsible behavior.

6. The reality obscured by non stop smoke screens.

A. First of all the Starvation Wall, photos above.

The DCR admits the 16 foot high starvation wall of introduced vegetation is hated by the public because it turns a playing field on the Charles River into a situation which might as well be ten miles from the Charles.  The starvation wall has no value except as heartless animal abuse.

The Starvation Wall is being partially, and very partially, undone by the $69,000 being expended on a fake new boat dock which turns out to be a reversal of the part of the outrages in the 2000's which made the existing dock useless.  PLUS apparently a new obstacle working toward the goal of starving the Charles River White Geese.

B. Secondly, the poisons first introduced in the 2000's outrage.

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Blockage Created December 2017 by the same fake protectors.  Improved May 2018 by a related group.

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 Poisons added to the environment in the 2000's were to be drained away from the Charles by
expensive drainage ditches. Half of the ditch drainage is now being rerouted to the Charles by
blocking the drainage ditches.
We previously complained to the Cambridge City Council. Here is initial algae accumulation created by this destruction.

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Phil Barber

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C. Introduction of Invasives.

Demonstrating how much of a flat out lie “standing up to invasives” is, here is mint planted by a related allegedly protective group in May 2018.

Photo courtesy of Phil Barber, with blow up by me.

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Mint plants are as invasive and destructive as can be.

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D. The destruction of 3.4 acres of the Alewife reservation / Silver Maple forest.

The City Council non stop lied about “concern” for the Silver Maple forest by yelling at developers obeying zoning which is the City Council’s responsibility.

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Photo from City of Cambridge puff piece published on Robert Winters webpage.

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One of the fake groups which apparently fought for this outrage was present at the Thursday meeting.
The representative called his supposed protection group “Green Cambridge.” He bragged about his
work at Alewife. He neglected to mention the 3.4 acres destroyed by the Cambridge City Council.
Destruction was helped, once again, by Company Unions lying about protecting and telling responsible
people that their supposed protection groups were protecting and telling their victims not to look at what
the Cambridge City Council was directly destroying.
When I asked this alleged protector about the destruction by the Cambridge City Council, his silence
was as ominous as the silence of the City Councilor when, in the middle of her process smoke screen
pitch, I asked her about the April 24, 2017 Order 1 vote for destruction.

E. The destruction of the magnificent grove at the Harvard Square edge of the Cambridge Common.

The development department bragged that the destruction would open up the view of a monument.

Since then more money has been spent to supposedly undo what should never have been done in the first place.

Is the winner the environment to replace magnificent trees with saplings?  Of course not.

The only winners are contractors paid to destroy and paid to replace, plus city councilors who can run around lying about their great saplings.  Plus, of course, city councilors bragging to constituents about saplings and NOT MENTIONING THE OUTRAGEOUS DESTRUCTION.

F. The destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.

Our video may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.  The City Manager damned in this video is Rossi, who publicly bragged about the “improvements” coming on the Charles River.

City Councilors were informed, with photos, for months before the destruction, many times per week during the destruction.

The City Council, during the destruction yelled at circuses passing through Cambridge on the public roads for animal abuse.  The City Council was deathly silent about the heartless animal abuse being achieved by Cambridge and the DCR on the Charles River.

Yet another skillful lie was involved in this outrage.

DCR / Cambridge turned a lot of the Charles River into a barren desert by failing to plant trees which should have been planted 10 years earlier.  So in addition to replacing excellent trees which should not have been destroyed, trees were planted which should have been planted ten years earlier.

The “replacements” for the outrages were, of course far inferior to the excellent trees destroyed, and, in fact were far overwhelmed in quantity by the trees which should have been planted 10 years earlier.

So a false impression of responsible government was created by this lie.

An analysis of part of the “improvements” was made by an international expert at https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.

The reality is that the predecessor to the DCR was destroyed by the legislature in part to protect public property from its “planners.”  So these irresponsible “planners” went to the DCR and, along with irresponsible Cambridge “planners” have inflicted a lot of wasteful destruction.

7. 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 it claims 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.

Charles River: More fake protectors destroy at Magazine Beach

Charles River: More fake protectors destroy at Magazine Beach

1. Reports
2. Record of the Charles River “Conservancy.”


1. Reports

Phil reports on May 10:

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There's a small army of volunteers tearing out the Phragmites and doing other general clean-up type work today.

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I think the number was about 15.

Phil reports on May 13:

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As anticipated much uprooting (including wildflowers, not just in the reed area) and new tarps.

The rabbits have found the newly planted flowers, about half are still left uneaten.

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Ed: Now they will want to deliberately kill rabbits.

2. Record of the Charles River “Conservancy.”

One of the happiest moments I have had was listening to the Boston Conservation Commission blast the Charles River “Conservancy” for their destruction of environment on the Boston side.  The area in which they destroyed, about half a mile in length, recently was supported by the fake neighborhood association for total destruction, by having highway related construction on platforms built on the river banks and cantilevered over the Charles River.  Fortunately, the target in the demands, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is the adult in the room in comparison to the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Cambridge Development Department, and their friends.

This destructive fake protective group has been in existence under this name since the Fall of 2000.

Their predecessor fake protective group was the entity which announced the Cambridge City Manager’s plans for destruction in 1997.

In June 1999, the lead “Planner” of the predecessor of the Department of Conservation and Recreation gave me the DCR’s plans for Magazine Beach.  She showed me the small differences between City Manager Healy’s plan and the DCR’s.

That fake group did two things.  The other was an annual clean up of Magazine Beach for Boston University to hold part of its commencement activities there.  They suckered people into that in the name of Earth Day.  One of the first activities of Friends of the White Geese was to picket one of the clean ups.  That fall, the CRC announced its existence with overlapping directorate.

The CRC fought for the Starvation Wall which keeps the Charles River White Geese from their food of most of their 37 year residence, at the Magazine Beach Playing fields.

They did a “swim in” bragging about how the DCR was improving swimming.  Never explained how walling off Magazine Beach improves swimming.

The CRC fought for the destruction of those hundreds of mostly excellent trees that were destroyed in January 2016.

Our video reporting the destruction is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.

The CRC has destroyed vast amounts of ground vegetation in the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and all of the ground vegetation in the Wild Area on the opposite side of the Grand Junction.

To the right of the V shaped tree is a mother goose trying to nest.

This hill under the Grand Junction leading to the bay was lush with ground vegetation.

Formerly lush river bank.

Highly invasive mint planted and watered by CRC this year near the covered poison drainage area.  Phil Barber photo with blowup.

The eastern poison drainage area after denuding of free vegetation by the fake neighborhood association.  Phil’s reference to new tarps, I assume refers to this area.

And here is some of the DCR’s beloved algae, in a formerly clean area of water east of the covered poison drainage area.  Phil Barber photo.

The Charles River has an annual blight of algae.  It dates back to the first annual Charles River Swim.  The DCR decided that its beloved poisons were not as effective as the DCR would like at Ebersol Fields on the Charles River in Boston near the Massachusetts General Hospital.

So the DCR dumped poisons marked “Do not use near water.”

The next day, the Charles River was dead from Boston Harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge, the next bridge downriver from the BU Bridge which abuts the Destroyed Nesting Area to which the Charles River White Geese are confined without food.

At Alewife, Somerville proudly displays free vegetation which the fake protective groups destroy.  Normal human beings are constructive, not destructive.

Life on the Charles River

Life on the Charles River

Phil Barber has provided the following photos from Magazine Beach on May 10.

Charles River: The Con Game at Magazine Beach

Charles River:   The Con Game at Magazine Beach

The following letter was submitted to the City Manager on April 18, 2018, and received by the Cambridge City Council on April 23, 2018.

I have been decidedly tied up with other matters and not able to publish this, rather skillful analysis of the situation and the outrages at Magazine Beach.

Nevertheless, given the posts since this letter was submitted to City Manager and (for the City Council) City Clerk on April 18, 2018, public presentation at this time is timely.

The official publication of this letter is at:  http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=15&ID=1834&Inline=True, pages 248 to 257.

The letter’s organization is a major part of its effectiveness, so I would suggest review of the official record.

[copy of WordPerfect master in the file, modified to work in the blog]

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April 18, 2018, Addressed to Cambridge City Manager and Cambridge City Council

RE: Charles River:   Fake Protectors and “Professionals” Ramp up the Flim Flam.

1. Fake Protectors and “Professionals” Ramp up the Flim Flam.
2. What the Cambridge City Council should be doing.
3. Limited samples of outrages being hidden.
4. The latest flim flam - a “new” boat dock which is just another lie..
5. The latest fear - the start of reprehensible destruction.
6. What should the Cambridge City Council be doing?


1. Fake Protectors and “Professionals” Ramp up the Flim Flam.

The real, under lying purpose of flim flam from the Fake Protectors and worse is to get the rubes looking at everything except for what is important.  So we will discuss the important stuff first, and eventually get on to the flim flam.  DCR stands for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

2. What the Cambridge City Council should be doing.

This is the most important stuff for the Fake Protectors to keep secret from the rubes.  So we will do it first.

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 it claims 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.

3. Limited samples of outrages being hidden.

The Fake Protectors on behalf of the DCR and Cambridge

are rerouting poisons being dumped on Magazine Beach

into the Charles River. They are doing this by blocking

up the drainage system created to allow introduction of

those poisons onto Magazine Beach on the banks of the

Charles by keeping those poisons which should not even

be used on the banks of the Charles out of the Charles.

New poisoning scheduled to last for two years. City

Council silent when informed (with a wink and a nod). 

Standard flim flam technique: story keeps changing.

This magnificent grove of 10 trees in the hill area dominates

the western view from the playing fields. A tiny percentage of

the 10 trees are dead. The DCR and City Council play games

with numbers. Only safe interpretation: ALL are doomed.

Standard lie: DCR claims only 3 in the grove, not 10 trees. So

by destroying what normal human beings would call 10 trees

the DCR lie with secret definition claims “ONLY 3" being

destroyed. In reality, 2 or 3 of the 10 might be responsibly

removed.  

The City Council, DCR and friends want to destroy this

magnificent willow at the southwest end of the playing

fields and the southeast end of the hill west of the

playing fields.

The bulk of the 56 mostly excellent trees being destroyed are in

the magnificent park on the hill in the middle of the Magazine

Beach Recreation Area. At the end of this report, are presented

reduced copies of the 19 pages in our 6/6/17 letter which analyze

the Magazine Beach hill. There are “poor confused” people who

just “cannot recognize” the existence of that 51 pager.  

The DCR admits that ALL of the SEVEN excellent

trees across from the MicroCenter parking lot are

healthy and excellent. They claim they are doing a

benefit by moving the parking lot on top of the trees.  

The Magazine Beach recreation area is at the upper

right. I90, the Mass. Turnpike, is at the upper left.

The real prize is to build a ramp from I90 to the

Grand Junction Railroad Bridge (lower of the 2

bridges) and then provide a personal I90 exit to the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (off photo, to

bottom right), with exit ramps to Memorial Drive

(showing on far right). Remaining goose habitat,

WITHOUT FOOD, is at bottom right.  

This DCR destruction plan is marked with blue dots to

indicate entrances to Recreation Area being rearranged to

speed up traffic. The not stated purpose is to improve speed

for traffic from the I90 off ramp. The two dots in the center

are at either end of the little guys parking lot being destroyed

as part of the destruction of the park. The dot to the left of

them is the current entrance to another parking lot which

would be moved on top of the 7 excellent trees to create a

new curb cut across from the right of the two upper curb cuts

of the MicroCenter shopping center parking lot.  

The Magazine Beach playing fields from I90 photo, a few

years ago. The doomed willow is the massive tree just to

the left of the playing fields on the river. The hill park is

the thick tree grouping toward the top and slightly left of

center. The Starvation Wall lines pretty much all of the

river front.  

The 16 foot high Starvation Wall from the Boston side. Main purpose: Keep Charles River White Geese

from feeding at their home for most of the last 37 years at Magazine Beach. Current flim flam cuts down a few

bushes on either side of the TINY opening before letting the bushes grow again. The Starvation Wall is hated

by the public. The public thinks it should be possible to see the Charles River from the banks of the Charles

River. So a few bushes are cut to lie to the public that DCR / Cambridge are behaving responsibly.  

The Charles River White Geese admire the Charles

River from their foodless ghetto.  

Opposite corner of Goose Meadow. Blocked to prevent

Charles River White Geese from feeding on grass under

Memorial Drive at opposite side of entrance ramp to left.  

Jan 2016: Stones placed at river edge across

from Hyatt Hotel prevent access by Charles

River White Geese to food. ALL TREES

across from Hyatt Destroyed, and the grass.  

Jan. 2016: Every tree across from Hyatt (sign on left)

destroyed.  

Jan. 2016: Western end of destroyed,

magnificent Cherry Grove at Memorial Drive

split. Hyatt is probably building slightly left of

and above center to the left of the MIT high rise.  

Jan. 2016, Contractor destroying magnificent Cherry Grove.

To the left is his, and the DCR and Cambridge’s devastation of

the formerly magnificent Cherry Grove at the river.

During the Jan 2016 outrage. The Cambridge City Council was

INDIVIDUALLY given four or more times weekly email

updates of the destruction with photos. These emails followed

months of build-ups with photos, comparable to the current

letters.

DURING THE ACTUAL DESTRUCTION, The Cambridge

City Council showed its position on the massive destruction

and heartless animal abuse by yelling at circuses passing by

Cambridge on city highways, claiming animal abuse.  

Our video on the outrage on January 2016, WITH DETAILS on individual tree destruction, BEFORE AND AFTER, is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o. The following photos and the preceding 5 photos present but a tiny portion of photos in the video.  The video includes more than 100 graphics with before and after pictures, and MARKINGS IDENTIFYING DESTRUCTION.  VAST EMPTY SPACES in the pictures presented on these pages WERE FORMERLY EXCELLENT TREES. Hundreds of mostly excellent trees were destroyed.  An after analysis by an international expert is posted at https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.  Negative comments in the video against the City Manager refer to the preceding City Manager, the third member of the destructive three member City Manager regency which dated back to 1974.

4. The latest flim flam - a “new” boat dock which is just another lie.

The latest big lie about money was sneaked past well intentioned people in a “public process.”  That lie was that Cambridge, the DCR and friends were creating a “NEW DOCK” on the Charles River.  In responding, we must recognize that we are listening to yet more lies from people with long histories of lies, so we may not yet fully understand the scope of this latest fraud.

The most cynical part of the recent outrages was the use of well meaning people who were proud of defending the environment, but, in reality those average folks were lied to as to what they were doing so what they did was just part of yet another con game.

Here is the boat dock in 2006, with an excellent view of

the BU Bridge. The black border on this and other

photos indicates that they are stills from the same video.  

Here is the introduced pond behind the little girl in the 20th

Century boat dock. The Charles is to the left, then the boat

dock, then the bridge / blockade.  

From 2012, here was the view behind the boat dock of the 20th

Century. Yet another fraudulent “creation.” This is a better

view of the bridge claimed to connect the parking lot to the boat

dock, but it prevented use of the boat dock with the obstructions

at the parking lot, and with the fact that it was not wide enough

and apparently not strong enough to hold vehicles.  

Here is an adult woman overwhelmed by the

Starvation Wall in 2012 or thereabouts.

Note the difference in vegetation.

.6 years of growth created this monster.  

Photo courtesy of Phil Barber.  

Here, from a few days ago, is the work that volunteers did to clean up vegetation from around the “NEW DOCK.”

Usual flat out lie from the DCR, Cambridge Development Department and the Fake Protectors.  They conned well meaning people into work with the lie that they were doing something good for the environment.

Clearly, all these great sounds are lying that bringing back the boat dock of the 20th Century IS CREATING A NEW BOAT DOCK.  The scary thing, however is that the DCR ALWAYS includes terrible things attacking resident animals.  What terrible thing this time?  It will be accomplished with maximum secrecy until it is “too late.”

It is always so difficult to straighten out and respond to the ever present lies.  The LOWERING of the publicly hated Starvation Wall may TEMPORARILY recreate the view of the BU Bridge.  The walling off of the Charles River from resident animals is not impacted.

Here is the official depiction, apparently shown to everybody who voted for funds.

First of all, realizing that the “NEW” boat dock is just the usual flat out lie, this structure looks like it could be yet another major obstacle.

The area with LOWERED Starvation Wall does not seem to be this large.  And it is highly likely that the DCR will not remove the roots.  However, given all the lying, the DCR could possibly be removing the roots.

It the DCR does remove the roots, that will prove yet another lie as a flat out lie.  This particular lie is the constant proclamation that the DCR cannot do anything about the hated starvation wall.

If they do not remove the roots, the lie is that this place will be open as presented.  Given another six years (the time between the earlier photos from 2006 and 2012/13), the hated Starvation Wall will be back, even blocking the view of the Charles in this TINY portion of the massive Starvation Wall.  The Starvation Wall was constructed based on the promise that it would be a “LAWN TO THE RIVER.”  Just more lies.

The first change in this series of outrages created the bridge over the introduced pond, .  The Charles River White Geese loved the pond and went through it to get to their home and feeding grounds of most of the past 37 years.  So that “had to go.”  After all, the DCR, WITH CAMBRIDGE SUPPORT has a policy of killing off or driving away all resident animals from this part of the Charles River.

The introduced pond was replaced with an introduced wetland.

It would appear from the depiction on page 7 [ed: immediately previous photo] AND THE REALITY ON THE GROUND TO DATE that the Development Department / DCR / CITY COUNCIL are working to destroy the introduced wetland.  And get rid of the introduced bridge.

City Council is included because:  IF it is an outrage, and YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOU DID IT.

So, unless there is something we are unaware of, the lies about a “NEW BOAT DOCK” are, as usual, lies.

[Ed:  The Cambridge City Manager, in his 2019 fiscal year budget, commented that the dock construction is a renovation.]

The Starvation Wall should be destroyed including the roots, from the MWRA property to the excellent Willow that the City Council and DCR want to destroy.  Anything less is unacceptable and typical Cambridge corrupt practices.

The DCR admits that the Starvation Wall is hated by a public which expects to see the Charles River from the banks of the Charles River.

The Starvation Wall has no meaningful purpose except to the keep the beloved Charles River White Geese from their home and food of most of the last 37 years

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City of Cambridge staff and Fake Protectors bragging about the City
Manager Machine (three prior City Managers) policy of heartless animal
abuse in a recent propaganda show in City Hall Annex.
But the Cambridge City Council yelled at circuses on the public highway
for animal abuse during the January 2016 outrage.
It is nutty for anybody to think the Cambridge City Council is on the side
of victim animals when they shouted down reality with their YELLING
AT THE OTHER GUY during the Jan. 2016 outrage. Once again,
YELLING AT THE OTHER GUY while silent on the governmental
outrages is rather clear fraud.  

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The same Fake Protectors who fight for and achieve so much harm, are the people who have been abusive of the well intentioned people who got conned into this work.

The same Fake Protectors who led this project, are dumping the poisons into the Charles River.

The same Fake Protectors run a Company Union operation, along with more direct actions, by which they helped destroy hundreds of trees and animal habitat between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.

The same Fake Protectors are fighting for the next massive destruction using Company Union tactics including flat out lying about what they are fighting for, and censorship, insofar as possible, of the terrible things they, and the Cambridge City Council, are now working for.

The same Fake Protectors, after the love fest on the stairs of Cambridge City Hall on April 24, 2017, bragged to, those around them that they were fighting for order 1 of April 24, 2017, and encouraged well intended people to support that outrage.

Naturally, these same Fake Protectors kept the very terrible reality of Order 1 secret from these latest rubes, and from the well intentioned rubes they suckered into supporting communications to the Cambridge City Council.

Company Union fraud, dirty tricks, censorship, and whatever other corrupt behavior works.  That is the game in this community.  This community demands a responsible government but honest communication of incumbent behavior can get incumbents unelected.  Failure of reelection was the fate of at least one and perhaps two city councilors who named the Cambridge Police Station after that City Manager condemned by three levels of court for destroying the life of a Black, Cape Verdean Female Department Head because she had the nerve to fight for Women’s Rights in front of a municipal government which loudly proclaims its support for women’s rights1.

5. The latest fear - the start of reprehensible destruction.

The Cambridge City Council, in order 1 of April 24, 2017, voted to destroy 56 mostly excellent trees at Magazine Beach, more than half them in the excellent park on the hill.  The description in the whereas’s took skillful word game fraud from the DCR and turned it into an absolute “TRUTH,” in reality, a massive lie, “dead or dying,” as demonstrated in detail in our June 6, 2017, 51 page letter with over a hundred graphics.

That analysis is posted by the Cambridge City Clerk at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249.  Individual copies were provided to the City Manager by DVD and to each member of the City Council by DVD.

For the benefit of the confused, whether in reality or by sham,  here are copies of the 19 pages (of the 51 pages in total) which concern the park which is targeted for most of this massive and irresponsible destruction, and for which we have had particular concern in recent weeks.

We would be pleased to further provide DVD’s of the original letter for those City Councilors who wish.

[Ed.  It was possible to fill three pages with JPEG copies of the 19 pages, and it makes an excellent impression.  In this milieu, you would get 19 straight PDF's which would simply take up room.  The pages which were reproduced for the Cambridge City Council are included in the immediately preceding citation.]

The balance of the 51 page letter plus subsequent communications elaborated and clarified the outrage supported by Order 1 of April 24, 2017.  And Order 1 followed on City Councilors leading a rally for their own supposed environmental sainthood on the stairs of City Hall.  The silence since our June 6, 2017 letter, combined with non stop yelling at the other guy, reaffirms the outrage, especially when observed in conjunction with that self-proclamation of environmental sainthood.

6. What should the Cambridge City Council be doing?

See Section 2, above.

Sincerely,


Robert J. La Trémouille
Chair, Friends of the White Geese


Footnote

1. For the learned judicial opinions in Monteiro v. Cambridge, please see http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html, Trial Judge’s opinion with extensive quotes from the testimony of Robert Healy; and http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/appeals-court-decision-in-monteiro.html, formal comments of the Appeals Court panel.  The Appeals Court panel showed its contempt for the situation in Cambridge by refusing to dignify the appeal with a formal opinion.  So the latter is a judicial opinion specifically called not a judicial opinion.