Bob La Trémouille reports:
Yesterday afternoon, I attended the meeting of the Citizens Advisory Committee on the plans for the bus / highway phase of the Urban Ring planning.
Their plans are on the Internet. http://www.theurbanring.com/currentmaterials.asp?area=gen is the indes to the most recent posting. It is not up to date.
The plans include a pedestrian / small vehicle highway through the same area where the DCR / its agents just destroyed vegetation and probably / possibly killed Brown Beauty's babies.
The DCR was represented by the environmentally vile Julia O'Brien. She has been a key part of the leadership in the outrages going on in Cambridge on the Charles river.
Boston University condemned part of the plans which they say are destructive to their campus.
I commented that, given the destruction being inflicted on the environment in Cambridge by BU and the DCR and implemented in the Urban Ring plans, it is a pleasure to see these reprehensible, destructive bastards bitterly objecting to "harm" to them.
Years of heartless abuse, years of heartless starving, the first attack on the Charles River White Geese when BU illegally destroyed the nesting area in 1999 (destruction which is a key part of the Urban Ring plans), probably repeated destruction of nests over the years and killing of geese who defended their nests, lying about the Charles River White Geese in their alumni magazine - there is a lot to have contempt for BU for. Truly reprehensible people.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Brown Beauty Mate Alive; BU Destructiveness
Bob La Trémouille reports:
Yesterday evening after the Urban Ring meeting reported separately, I went to the Goose Meadow to demonstrate the destruction inflicted by the DCR / their agents.
In the grass on the other side of the ramp to Memorial Drive were Brown Beauty and her mate.
I helped them cross the ramp when they had had enough food. They have been forced to make this dangerous trip by their access to food at Magazine Beach being destroyed.
In the Urban Ring report, I mention publicly condemning the environmental destructiveness of BU and the DCR on the north side of the Charles.
In addition to the physical destructiveness, Boston University has stooped so low as to print a false statement by a BU related goose-feeder that the Charles River White Geese cannot survive if feeders stop feeding them. The statement is true NOW because BU, Cambridge and the DCR have been so destructive as to their habitat. The statement is a flat out lie if the destructiveness of BU, Cambridge and the DCR is omitted. The Charles River White Geese survived for 25 years living on the food which BU, Cambridge and the DCR have taken away from them.
The lie was printed in BU's alumni magazine. Friends of the White Geese submitted a response which BU would not print.
It is scary to have such a flat out lie printed. It is scarier still to have these hypocrites refuse to correct it.
It is even more scary that the Charles River White Geese are relying on somebody doing such harm to them. We have no choice. The geese need to be fed.
FOWG did the feeding for a number of months until we could find people who would do the feeding, but these two key feeders with their political harm to the Charles River White Geese are most definitely not friends. We are overworked as it is. The geese need to be fed. We cannot do it, but the two key feeders are a cancer within.
Yesterday evening after the Urban Ring meeting reported separately, I went to the Goose Meadow to demonstrate the destruction inflicted by the DCR / their agents.
In the grass on the other side of the ramp to Memorial Drive were Brown Beauty and her mate.
I helped them cross the ramp when they had had enough food. They have been forced to make this dangerous trip by their access to food at Magazine Beach being destroyed.
In the Urban Ring report, I mention publicly condemning the environmental destructiveness of BU and the DCR on the north side of the Charles.
In addition to the physical destructiveness, Boston University has stooped so low as to print a false statement by a BU related goose-feeder that the Charles River White Geese cannot survive if feeders stop feeding them. The statement is true NOW because BU, Cambridge and the DCR have been so destructive as to their habitat. The statement is a flat out lie if the destructiveness of BU, Cambridge and the DCR is omitted. The Charles River White Geese survived for 25 years living on the food which BU, Cambridge and the DCR have taken away from them.
The lie was printed in BU's alumni magazine. Friends of the White Geese submitted a response which BU would not print.
It is scary to have such a flat out lie printed. It is scarier still to have these hypocrites refuse to correct it.
It is even more scary that the Charles River White Geese are relying on somebody doing such harm to them. We have no choice. The geese need to be fed.
FOWG did the feeding for a number of months until we could find people who would do the feeding, but these two key feeders with their political harm to the Charles River White Geese are most definitely not friends. We are overworked as it is. The geese need to be fed. We cannot do it, but the two key feeders are a cancer within.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Vegetation Changes - Baby Killers?
Bob La Trémouille reports:
Over the fall and winter, severe damage has been done to protective vegetation in the Destroyed Nesting area.
This was rather clearly done by vehicles of government workers and contractors. They trampled over protective briar patches.
Between the main path and the BU Bridge was damage done by workers inspecting the BU Bridge.
Between the ramp to Memorial Drive and the worn out portion brambles were apparently crushed as part of the "sidewalk project."
The wasted area toward the river has heavily been created by nuts from the DCR and their agents. They have, over the years, shown their contempt for nature here and under the trees to the east.
These nuts dug up the protective ground vegetation and dumped poisons. This is an excellent example of man's destroying our world. Vegetation needed by nature and by our world is considered "unsightly" by nuts who have no business managing nature. That is our DCR and its agents.
The damage that was done to the briars has been picked up during the last week.
Prior times when nuts from the DCR and their agents have destroyed nature in the goose meadow, they have destroyed nests as well. The difference between the killing of geese by the rape-murderer who is now in jail and the DCR activities was that the rape-murderer left the dead bodies.
When the DCR / their agents were indulging in their outrageous cleanups, mother geese simply disappeared. We have seen mates become flat out nuts when the DCR / their agents did their vile work. I have seen day old babies wandering the nesting area looking for their mothers, crying for their mothers.
My first indication that somebody other than an individual nut was killing mother geese came after second the brood in the 2001 nesting season was hatched under a large board leaning against the BU Bridge. The board was too big for one person to move, but it disappeared, leaving a missing mother, a mate who had gone nuts and babies crying for their mother.
Brown Beauty has, in the past, been severely beaten protecting her nest.
Mother geese do not abandon their broods. Sick nuts kill mother geese.
The work that cleaned up vegetation that had been trampled was in the area I mentioned above.
Brown Beauty has been nesting in the area toward the on ramp.
Brown Beauty's babies have disappeared. Brown Beauty is very distraught.
Did the sickos from the DCR commit yet another outrage?
Well, we could ask them. These are the guys who promised to do no harm to the Charles River White Geese and then explained that they do not consider starving them to be harming them.
We are dealing with truly reprehensible people. Reprehensible people who are proud of being reprehensible except when they lie to decent human beings.
What do you think?
Afterthought:
Has anybody seen Brown Beauty's mate?
When the sick bastard's were "cleaning up" nests, mother geese rather clearly were killed and removed for defending their nests. Brown Beauty was alone yesterday. I have almost never in recent days seen her without her mate.
I have not seen a goose look like that since the rape-murderer apparently killed Bumpy.
Was Brown Beauty's mate killed for defending the nest and babies?
If anybody has seen Brown Beauty's mate, I would very pleased to learn differently.
Over the fall and winter, severe damage has been done to protective vegetation in the Destroyed Nesting area.
This was rather clearly done by vehicles of government workers and contractors. They trampled over protective briar patches.
Between the main path and the BU Bridge was damage done by workers inspecting the BU Bridge.
Between the ramp to Memorial Drive and the worn out portion brambles were apparently crushed as part of the "sidewalk project."
The wasted area toward the river has heavily been created by nuts from the DCR and their agents. They have, over the years, shown their contempt for nature here and under the trees to the east.
These nuts dug up the protective ground vegetation and dumped poisons. This is an excellent example of man's destroying our world. Vegetation needed by nature and by our world is considered "unsightly" by nuts who have no business managing nature. That is our DCR and its agents.
The damage that was done to the briars has been picked up during the last week.
Prior times when nuts from the DCR and their agents have destroyed nature in the goose meadow, they have destroyed nests as well. The difference between the killing of geese by the rape-murderer who is now in jail and the DCR activities was that the rape-murderer left the dead bodies.
When the DCR / their agents were indulging in their outrageous cleanups, mother geese simply disappeared. We have seen mates become flat out nuts when the DCR / their agents did their vile work. I have seen day old babies wandering the nesting area looking for their mothers, crying for their mothers.
My first indication that somebody other than an individual nut was killing mother geese came after second the brood in the 2001 nesting season was hatched under a large board leaning against the BU Bridge. The board was too big for one person to move, but it disappeared, leaving a missing mother, a mate who had gone nuts and babies crying for their mother.
Brown Beauty has, in the past, been severely beaten protecting her nest.
Mother geese do not abandon their broods. Sick nuts kill mother geese.
The work that cleaned up vegetation that had been trampled was in the area I mentioned above.
Brown Beauty has been nesting in the area toward the on ramp.
Brown Beauty's babies have disappeared. Brown Beauty is very distraught.
Did the sickos from the DCR commit yet another outrage?
Well, we could ask them. These are the guys who promised to do no harm to the Charles River White Geese and then explained that they do not consider starving them to be harming them.
We are dealing with truly reprehensible people. Reprehensible people who are proud of being reprehensible except when they lie to decent human beings.
What do you think?
Afterthought:
Has anybody seen Brown Beauty's mate?
When the sick bastard's were "cleaning up" nests, mother geese rather clearly were killed and removed for defending their nests. Brown Beauty was alone yesterday. I have almost never in recent days seen her without her mate.
I have not seen a goose look like that since the rape-murderer apparently killed Bumpy.
Was Brown Beauty's mate killed for defending the nest and babies?
If anybody has seen Brown Beauty's mate, I would very pleased to learn differently.
Brown Beauty: Joy turns to loss
Bob La Trémouille reports:
Brown Beauty has had two surviving broods.
In 1999, she had five babies, three males and two females. Two of the males were shot in the ensuing years. One died rapidly. The second possibly died a year later.
In 2005 or 2006, she had one surviving baby, a male, a white beauty with a black hood.
Last week, I saw two babies huddling up to her under her wing. This was under the vegetation toward the tracks, but near the historical nesting area.
This week, they were no longer there. I found Brown Beauty under the vegetation near the river and not that far from the bridge. She was by herself, no mate, no babies.
She looked bedraggled.
Brown Beauty has had two surviving broods.
In 1999, she had five babies, three males and two females. Two of the males were shot in the ensuing years. One died rapidly. The second possibly died a year later.
In 2005 or 2006, she had one surviving baby, a male, a white beauty with a black hood.
Last week, I saw two babies huddling up to her under her wing. This was under the vegetation toward the tracks, but near the historical nesting area.
This week, they were no longer there. I found Brown Beauty under the vegetation near the river and not that far from the bridge. She was by herself, no mate, no babies.
She looked bedraggled.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Environmental Destruction and Lying on the Charles River
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Introductory.
2. Objection to lying on the Charles River, long form.
1. Introductory.
In my prior blog report, I passed on a letter printed by the Cambridge Chronicle, and commented on a response published on line and probably printed in today's paper.
The response to my letter may, for now, be found at: http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/homepage/x2032091241/Guest-commentary-Should-the-Charles-be-a-private-cooling-pond-for-power-plant.
After an exchange, I submitted an op ed response. The Chronicle editor has asked me to cut it down to a 400 word letter.
The following is the full version. I will work on cutting it down to 400 words for the Chronicle.
2. Objection to lying on the Charles River, long form.
Editor
I have a great deal of difficulty with the Guest Commentary entitled “Should the Charles be a private cooling pond for power plant?”
The difficulty very strongly comes from the fact that one week before the submission of this article, I, yet again in the Cambridge Chronicle, condemned the environmental destructiveness of Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation on the Charles River .
In my letter, I used an indelicate comment with regard to my years of standing up to environmental destruction by these people on the Charles River: “The only thing that has been consistent on the Charles River has been lies and suppression of the truth.”
The variety of lies, deliberate or otherwise, which I have seen has been incredible. The subset of lies to which I have been subjected includes the approach of this op-ed piece, whether deliberate or not:
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge love to point fingers at the Mirant Power Plant, people who are cleaning up their act on the Charles River .
The fact that the DCR and Cambridge are aggressively going in the wrong direction is something that Friends of the DCR and Cambridge DO NOT want to hear about.
Two years ago, in late summer, all of a sudden, the Charles River was dead from the harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge .
THE DAY BEFORE the Charles River was dead, the DCR applied Tartan fungicide to Ebersol Fields, across the river from the Mirant Plant. Tartan is marked with prohibitions against use near water. But the DCR had replaced GREEN maintenance with CHEMICAL maintenance at Ebersol Fields and their beloved CHEMICALs did not work. So the DCR tossed on Tartan and THE NEXT DAY the Charles River was dead.
Cambridge and the DCR are doing the same thing at Magazine Beach . Cambridge and the DCR have a location which works perfectly well with GREEN maintenance. Cambridge and the DCR want to put in their beloved CHEMICAL maintenance.
Magazine Beach has seen the contempt for the environment practiced by the DCR and Cambridge . The DCR and Cambridge destroyed the wetlands and animal habitat to install a bizarre wall of bushes. Friends of the DCR and Cambridge publicly called this bizarre wall blocking the Charles River from Magazine Beach a way to improve swimming on the Charles River .
This bizarre project walled off the Charles River White Geese from their principal source of food for 25 years. Simultaneous with this project, Cambridge put up a wall barring access from the Charles River to their alternate source of food of the Charles River White Geese for 25 years, the grass across from the Hyatt.
These heartless, cruel people have isolated these beautiful, valuable animals in their nesting area, perhaps 5% of their 25 year habitat. Now these heartless people want to destroy half their nesting area in a project called a sidewalk project.
I complained on the pages of the Cambridge Chronicle. The Cambridge Chronicle got a response which talks about the Mirant plant.
Friends of Cambridge and the DCR do not want to know reality.
Friends of Cambridge and the DCR do not want to know that Mirant is decreasing pollution.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know that Cambridge and the DCR are aggressively increasing pollution.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know that the DCR and Cambridge certainly look like the only current aggressive destroyers of the Charles River environment.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know about DCR’s five years of destroying as many eggs of water fowl as is possible.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know about the DCR’s five years of destroying as much protective vegetation on the Charles River as is possible.
Friends of the DCR belligerently want to believe the DCR’s promise repeated over many years: We will not harm the Charles River White Geese.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know the caveat given after starvation commenced. Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know the caveat that the DCR does not consider starvation harmful to the Charles River White Geese.
As far as I am concerned, whether knowing or not, loudly yelling about Mirant and not wanting to know about Cambridge and the DCR destructiveness on the Charles River is flat out lying.
As far as I am concerned the litany of skillful lying techniques used by the DCR, Cambridge and their stand-ins are all just lying.
The lying techniques I have observed over the years include the technique in this op ed piece, whether the writer is "consciously" aware or not. The lying techniques I have observed include working through agents and denying responsibility. The lying techniques I have observed include playing games with funding.
I object to the ongoing destruction on the Charles River . I object to the decade of lies of so many different techniques which has helped make the destruction possible.
I object to holier than thou’s from Cambridge and the DCR, people who are most definitely not holier than thou.
1. Introductory.
2. Objection to lying on the Charles River, long form.
1. Introductory.
In my prior blog report, I passed on a letter printed by the Cambridge Chronicle, and commented on a response published on line and probably printed in today's paper.
The response to my letter may, for now, be found at: http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/homepage/x2032091241/Guest-commentary-Should-the-Charles-be-a-private-cooling-pond-for-power-plant.
After an exchange, I submitted an op ed response. The Chronicle editor has asked me to cut it down to a 400 word letter.
The following is the full version. I will work on cutting it down to 400 words for the Chronicle.
2. Objection to lying on the Charles River, long form.
Editor
I have a great deal of difficulty with the Guest Commentary entitled “Should the Charles be a private cooling pond for power plant?”
The difficulty very strongly comes from the fact that one week before the submission of this article, I, yet again in the Cambridge Chronicle, condemned the environmental destructiveness of Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation on the Charles River .
In my letter, I used an indelicate comment with regard to my years of standing up to environmental destruction by these people on the Charles River: “The only thing that has been consistent on the Charles River has been lies and suppression of the truth.”
The variety of lies, deliberate or otherwise, which I have seen has been incredible. The subset of lies to which I have been subjected includes the approach of this op-ed piece, whether deliberate or not:
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge love to point fingers at the Mirant Power Plant, people who are cleaning up their act on the Charles River .
The fact that the DCR and Cambridge are aggressively going in the wrong direction is something that Friends of the DCR and Cambridge DO NOT want to hear about.
Two years ago, in late summer, all of a sudden, the Charles River was dead from the harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge .
THE DAY BEFORE the Charles River was dead, the DCR applied Tartan fungicide to Ebersol Fields, across the river from the Mirant Plant. Tartan is marked with prohibitions against use near water. But the DCR had replaced GREEN maintenance with CHEMICAL maintenance at Ebersol Fields and their beloved CHEMICALs did not work. So the DCR tossed on Tartan and THE NEXT DAY the Charles River was dead.
Cambridge and the DCR are doing the same thing at Magazine Beach . Cambridge and the DCR have a location which works perfectly well with GREEN maintenance. Cambridge and the DCR want to put in their beloved CHEMICAL maintenance.
Magazine Beach has seen the contempt for the environment practiced by the DCR and Cambridge . The DCR and Cambridge destroyed the wetlands and animal habitat to install a bizarre wall of bushes. Friends of the DCR and Cambridge publicly called this bizarre wall blocking the Charles River from Magazine Beach a way to improve swimming on the Charles River .
This bizarre project walled off the Charles River White Geese from their principal source of food for 25 years. Simultaneous with this project, Cambridge put up a wall barring access from the Charles River to their alternate source of food of the Charles River White Geese for 25 years, the grass across from the Hyatt.
These heartless, cruel people have isolated these beautiful, valuable animals in their nesting area, perhaps 5% of their 25 year habitat. Now these heartless people want to destroy half their nesting area in a project called a sidewalk project.
I complained on the pages of the Cambridge Chronicle. The Cambridge Chronicle got a response which talks about the Mirant plant.
Friends of Cambridge and the DCR do not want to know reality.
Friends of Cambridge and the DCR do not want to know that Mirant is decreasing pollution.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know that Cambridge and the DCR are aggressively increasing pollution.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know that the DCR and Cambridge certainly look like the only current aggressive destroyers of the Charles River environment.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know about DCR’s five years of destroying as many eggs of water fowl as is possible.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know about the DCR’s five years of destroying as much protective vegetation on the Charles River as is possible.
Friends of the DCR belligerently want to believe the DCR’s promise repeated over many years: We will not harm the Charles River White Geese.
Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know the caveat given after starvation commenced. Friends of the DCR and Cambridge do not want to know the caveat that the DCR does not consider starvation harmful to the Charles River White Geese.
As far as I am concerned, whether knowing or not, loudly yelling about Mirant and not wanting to know about Cambridge and the DCR destructiveness on the Charles River is flat out lying.
As far as I am concerned the litany of skillful lying techniques used by the DCR, Cambridge and their stand-ins are all just lying.
The lying techniques I have observed over the years include the technique in this op ed piece, whether the writer is "consciously" aware or not. The lying techniques I have observed include working through agents and denying responsibility. The lying techniques I have observed include playing games with funding.
I object to the ongoing destruction on the Charles River . I object to the decade of lies of so many different techniques which has helped make the destruction possible.
I object to holier than thou’s from Cambridge and the DCR, people who are most definitely not holier than thou.
Censorship in Cambridge, MA - Cambridge Chronicle letter
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Letter in Cambridge Chronicle.
2. Apparent response by bad guys.
1. Letter in Cambridge Chronicle.
The following letter was printed in the May 1, 2008, Cambridge Chronicle minus the paragraph starting with "Nine heartless animal abusers." The entire letter was printed on line, from which this copy is taken.
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Cambridge -
The city recently started fining people for posting notices on lampposts.The city of Cambridge and Harvard University are exempt from the fines. Signs have gone up on the BU Bridge announcing “sidewalk improvements.” Typical DCR lies.
The “sidewalk improvements” include major destruction in the last remaining habitat of the Charles River white geese — their nesting area in which they are currently nesting.
Nine heartless animal abusers on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee member McGovern are imminently destroying the food of the Charles River white geese at Magazine Beach by digging up all seven acres, creating a wasteland in order to replace green maintenance with chemical maintenance.
Censorship of fliers is no coincidence.
The only thing that has been consistent on the Charles River has been lies and suppression of the truth.
These vile people will not behave in a manner consistent with their holier-than-thou pieties, so they are shutting people up.
ROBERT J. LA TREMOUILLE
2. Apparent response by bad guys.
The bad guys apparently responded by submitting an extended piece yelling about the Mirant power plant. It is in the Cambridge Chronicle on line. I do not know if it made today's edition of the paper.
When I refer to non-stop lies, I refer to a pattern of lying using an incredible variety of techniques.
One of the techniques is to change the subject and misdirect from the problem.
Mirant is cleaning up their act. Cambridge and the DCR are aggressively destroying the Charles River environment.
So the bad guys, friends of the DCR and Cambridge, do not want to hear about Cambridge and the DCR, they yell about Mirant.
1. Letter in Cambridge Chronicle.
2. Apparent response by bad guys.
1. Letter in Cambridge Chronicle.
The following letter was printed in the May 1, 2008, Cambridge Chronicle minus the paragraph starting with "Nine heartless animal abusers." The entire letter was printed on line, from which this copy is taken.
*********
Cambridge -
The city recently started fining people for posting notices on lampposts.The city of Cambridge and Harvard University are exempt from the fines. Signs have gone up on the BU Bridge announcing “sidewalk improvements.” Typical DCR lies.
The “sidewalk improvements” include major destruction in the last remaining habitat of the Charles River white geese — their nesting area in which they are currently nesting.
Nine heartless animal abusers on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee member McGovern are imminently destroying the food of the Charles River white geese at Magazine Beach by digging up all seven acres, creating a wasteland in order to replace green maintenance with chemical maintenance.
Censorship of fliers is no coincidence.
The only thing that has been consistent on the Charles River has been lies and suppression of the truth.
These vile people will not behave in a manner consistent with their holier-than-thou pieties, so they are shutting people up.
ROBERT J. LA TREMOUILLE
2. Apparent response by bad guys.
The bad guys apparently responded by submitting an extended piece yelling about the Mirant power plant. It is in the Cambridge Chronicle on line. I do not know if it made today's edition of the paper.
When I refer to non-stop lies, I refer to a pattern of lying using an incredible variety of techniques.
One of the techniques is to change the subject and misdirect from the problem.
Mirant is cleaning up their act. Cambridge and the DCR are aggressively destroying the Charles River environment.
So the bad guys, friends of the DCR and Cambridge, do not want to hear about Cambridge and the DCR, they yell about Mirant.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Holier than thou hypocrisy and censorship: Cambridge, MA
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Introduction.
2. Marilyn Wellons on Censorship and The Law.
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced.
3. Your editor on Cambridge, MA's contempt for The Law.
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced; Response - Cambridge has contempt for inconvenient laws.
1. Introduction.
The following exchange appeared on the Cambridgeport listserve on May 5, 2008.
2. Marilyn Wellons on Censorship and The Law
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced.
If the city's already hired a compliance officer and fined Riverside Neighborhood Association, it may be silly but someone's serious about it. Why, and why now, I do not know, but this move does follow hard upon others to limit public speech, especially in City Council.
How we're to find lost dogs or cats, advertise yard sales or neighborhood meetings without being able to put signs on utility poles I also don't know. Postings like these are a public means of communication unlike the telephone, e-mail, snail mail, or door-to-door leafleting.
Marilyn Wellons
PS Something about this reminds me of the poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoeller: see http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ First_they_ came...
3. Your editor on Cambridge, MA's contempt for The Law.
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced; Response - Cambridge has contempt for inconvenient laws.
Standard game with the City of Cambridge is: "If you want us to obey the law, sue us."
That is the reason they get away with so many truly reprehensible things, all the time putting out "Holier than thou" lies.
One excellent example is Kathy Podgers' case at the MCAD, two findings of probable cause so far in an obvious case.
Another excellent example the flat out refusal of the Election Commission to obey the Jack E. Robinson case. Most sane people do not spend thousands of dollars fighting these bastards.
They wind up in court only when they force somebody into a corner, as those dirty bastards did with Kathy Podgers. With Kathy, however, it says wonders that a roomful of rogue cops have not been punished for siccing a pit pull on her guide dog in the lobby of the Cambridge Police Station.
1. Introduction.
2. Marilyn Wellons on Censorship and The Law.
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced.
3. Your editor on Cambridge, MA's contempt for The Law.
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced; Response - Cambridge has contempt for inconvenient laws.
1. Introduction.
The following exchange appeared on the Cambridgeport listserve on May 5, 2008.
2. Marilyn Wellons on Censorship and The Law
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced.
If the city's already hired a compliance officer and fined Riverside Neighborhood Association, it may be silly but someone's serious about it. Why, and why now, I do not know, but this move does follow hard upon others to limit public speech, especially in City Council.
How we're to find lost dogs or cats, advertise yard sales or neighborhood meetings without being able to put signs on utility poles I also don't know. Postings like these are a public means of communication unlike the telephone, e-mail, snail mail, or door-to-door leafleting.
Marilyn Wellons
PS Something about this reminds me of the poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoeller: see http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ First_they_ came...
3. Your editor on Cambridge, MA's contempt for The Law.
Flier Ordinance Cannot be Enforced; Response - Cambridge has contempt for inconvenient laws.
Standard game with the City of Cambridge is: "If you want us to obey the law, sue us."
That is the reason they get away with so many truly reprehensible things, all the time putting out "Holier than thou" lies.
One excellent example is Kathy Podgers' case at the MCAD, two findings of probable cause so far in an obvious case.
Another excellent example the flat out refusal of the Election Commission to obey the Jack E. Robinson case. Most sane people do not spend thousands of dollars fighting these bastards.
They wind up in court only when they force somebody into a corner, as those dirty bastards did with Kathy Podgers. With Kathy, however, it says wonders that a roomful of rogue cops have not been punished for siccing a pit pull on her guide dog in the lobby of the Cambridge Police Station.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Major Two Front Attack Imminent on Charles River White Geese - City Censors Fliers on Lampposts
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Censorship by Cambridge with Cambridge and Harvard above the "law."
2. DCR Work at the Destroyed Nesting Area.
3. DCR / Cambridge Work at Magazine Beach.
4. Summary.
1. Censorship by Cambridge with Cambridge and Harvard above the "law."
The City of Cambridge recently started fining people for posting notices on lampposts.
The City of Cambridge and Harvard University are exempt from the fines.
2. DCR Work at the Destroyed Nesting Area.
Signs have gone up on the BU Bridge announcing "sidewalk improvements".
Typical Department of Conservation and Recreation lies.
The "sidewalk improvements" include major destruction in the last remaining habitat of the Charles River White Geese: their nesting area in which they are currently nesting.
These "improvements" were presented at meetings quite awhile ago. Efforts to find current plans have so far been unavailing.
My memory is that signficant work (in spite of the "sidewalk" claim) was proposed in the northern part of the goose meadow abutting the ramp to Memorial Drive.
The plans shown would rather clearly obstruct access for feeding to remedy the ongoing starvation attacks by the DCR/Cambridge.
Additionally, vehicles have been in the goose meadow which have damaged native vegetation. The initial investigation concerned the stability of the BU Bridge which supposedly is scheduled for work in several years.
Other vehicle use is shown in damage to vegetation in or near the area of construction.
Geese are nesting in this vegetation. This vegetation is crucial to the health of the goose meadow and to the lives of its residents.
Repeated destruction of ground vegetation by the DCR and its friends combined with poisoning of the ground has left a very significant part of the goose meadow bare, just as river banks are left essentially bare by these sick people and their contempt for nature.
3. DCR / Cambridge Work at Magazine Beach.
Nine heartless animal abusers on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee member McGovern are imminently destroying the food of the Charles River White Geese at Magazine Beach by digging up all seven acres, creating a wasteland in order to replace GREEN maintenance with CHEMICAL maintenance.
4. Summary.
Censorship of fliers is no coincidence.
The only thing that has been consistent on the Charles River has been lies and suppression of the truth.
These vile people will not behave in a manner consistent with their holier than thou pieties, so they are shutting people up.
The DCR, however, does have an eight year records of sweet lies promising good behavior followed by undisclosed disclaimors.
I.E. We have no intention to harm the Charles River White Geese - repeated ever since 2000, quoted by the Boston Globe next to the photo of the earth movers in fall 2004.
Starving the Charles River White Geese is not harming them - stated in public meeting of Cambridge pol organization, in front of 20 to 40 people.
1. Censorship by Cambridge with Cambridge and Harvard above the "law."
2. DCR Work at the Destroyed Nesting Area.
3. DCR / Cambridge Work at Magazine Beach.
4. Summary.
1. Censorship by Cambridge with Cambridge and Harvard above the "law."
The City of Cambridge recently started fining people for posting notices on lampposts.
The City of Cambridge and Harvard University are exempt from the fines.
2. DCR Work at the Destroyed Nesting Area.
Signs have gone up on the BU Bridge announcing "sidewalk improvements".
Typical Department of Conservation and Recreation lies.
The "sidewalk improvements" include major destruction in the last remaining habitat of the Charles River White Geese: their nesting area in which they are currently nesting.
These "improvements" were presented at meetings quite awhile ago. Efforts to find current plans have so far been unavailing.
My memory is that signficant work (in spite of the "sidewalk" claim) was proposed in the northern part of the goose meadow abutting the ramp to Memorial Drive.
The plans shown would rather clearly obstruct access for feeding to remedy the ongoing starvation attacks by the DCR/Cambridge.
Additionally, vehicles have been in the goose meadow which have damaged native vegetation. The initial investigation concerned the stability of the BU Bridge which supposedly is scheduled for work in several years.
Other vehicle use is shown in damage to vegetation in or near the area of construction.
Geese are nesting in this vegetation. This vegetation is crucial to the health of the goose meadow and to the lives of its residents.
Repeated destruction of ground vegetation by the DCR and its friends combined with poisoning of the ground has left a very significant part of the goose meadow bare, just as river banks are left essentially bare by these sick people and their contempt for nature.
3. DCR / Cambridge Work at Magazine Beach.
Nine heartless animal abusers on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee member McGovern are imminently destroying the food of the Charles River White Geese at Magazine Beach by digging up all seven acres, creating a wasteland in order to replace GREEN maintenance with CHEMICAL maintenance.
4. Summary.
Censorship of fliers is no coincidence.
The only thing that has been consistent on the Charles River has been lies and suppression of the truth.
These vile people will not behave in a manner consistent with their holier than thou pieties, so they are shutting people up.
The DCR, however, does have an eight year records of sweet lies promising good behavior followed by undisclosed disclaimors.
I.E. We have no intention to harm the Charles River White Geese - repeated ever since 2000, quoted by the Boston Globe next to the photo of the earth movers in fall 2004.
Starving the Charles River White Geese is not harming them - stated in public meeting of Cambridge pol organization, in front of 20 to 40 people.
Monday, April 07, 2008
CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL TO FURTHER RESTRICT PUBLIC COMMENT TO CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL? REACTION TO KATHY PODGERS?
Bob La Trémouille reports.
1. Introductory.
2. Kathy Podgers?
A. Probable Cause of Violation of Her Civil Rights.
B. Explanation of the Cambridge Pols.
C. Explanation of the Cambridge City Council.
D. Explanation of the City of Cambridge according to Kathy.
E. But Kathy Podgers talks about other abuses of the Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Government.
3. Your editor’s reaction.
1. Introductory.
The Cambridge City Council has voted to look into furthering restricting the information they allow the public to present to the Cambridge City Council in the meetings of the Cambridge City Council.
The vote was 8 to 1.
Public participation in Cambridge City Council meetings is dramatically reduced as it is. The public is prohibited from talking in the meetings about anything except things the Cambridge City Council wants to talk about. Then the public has a three minute limit on the amount of words the public can say. And the public can only comment before the matter is discussed by the Cambridge City Council.
The restrictions get so bad that the city staff is allowed to make false statements about the positions that particular members of the public may have. I was once prohibited from responding to a flat out lie made about my position. The chair ruled that it was my flat out duty to foresee the flat out lie and respond to the flat out lie before it was said.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that very few intrepid souls bother to comment in city council meetings.
The Cambridge City Council, however, seems to think that the Cambridge City Council is hearing too much public opinion.
Thus, the reasonable question is: what is going on?
2. Kathy Podgers?
A. Probable Cause of Violation of Her Civil Rights.
One possible explanation could be that Kathy Podgers is embarrassing the Cambridge City Council by exposing the Cambridge City Council to reality.
You see, the Cambridge City Council and its City Manager has an extremely active and visible group, the Cambridge Pols, who are the approved talkers about the Cambridge City Government. This well organized clique can be relied upon to say some of the most bizarre, favorable things about these people.
The Cambridge Pols have the nerve to call the Cambridge City Council pro-environment. The Cambridge Pols even have the nerve to call the Cambridge City Council pro-civil rights.
The latter is one aspect to where Kathy Podgers comes in. You see, Kathy Podgers has had two findings of probable cause to determine that her civil rights have been violated by the Cambridge City Council. You see, the City of Cambridge and the City Council has problems with Kathy using a guide dog. Things have gotten so bad that a group of rogue cops abused the guide dog in the lobby of the Cambridge Police Station and apparently have not been punished.
The Cambridge City Council, through its mayor, tried to throw Kathy Podgers out of a Cambridge City Council meeting because the Cambridge City Council objected to the presence of her guide dog. So the two findings of probable cause of violation of this handicapped woman’s civil rights.
B. Explanation of the Cambridge Pols.
The explanation of the Cambridge Pols is pretty predictable. This is one little person. How dare anybody object to the Cambridge City Council abusing the civil rights of one little person. This explanation is very similar to the Cambridge Pols explanation of some of the more irresponsible treatment of the environment. You listen to the Cambridge Pols talk about the Charles River White Geese, and you would be certain that you are listening to a wife abuser talk about his wife.
C. Explanation of the Cambridge City Council.
As is usual with the Cambridge City Council on the outrageous behavior by the Cambridge City Council, their explanation is silence.
And you can’t talk in the Cambridge City Council meetings about something on which the Cambridge City Council is silent.
D. Explanation of the City of Cambridge according to Kathy.
Kathy has had a number of incidents in which she has been evicted from public places because the public places object to the presence of her guide dog.
According to Kathy, the City of Cambridge sees nothing wrong with this behavior. Evicting Kathy because of her guide dog violated federal civil rights laws. Cambridge has its own civil rights laws. Cambridge is above obeying federal laws which grant more civil rights than do Cambridge laws.
E. But Kathy Podgers talks about other abuses of the Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Government.
Kathy actually has the nerve to think that the Cambridge should be respecting the laws of Massachusetts and the laws of the United States.
Kathy has the nerve to say these horrible things in public.
Kathy has the nerve to say things which contradict the propaganda put out by the Cambridge Pols as cheerleaders for the Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Government.
Behavior such as this is unacceptable in the City of Cambridge.
3. Your editor’s reaction.
There are various other really nasty explanations for this initiative toward further censorship. I will go into those explanations at a later date.
1. Introductory.
2. Kathy Podgers?
A. Probable Cause of Violation of Her Civil Rights.
B. Explanation of the Cambridge Pols.
C. Explanation of the Cambridge City Council.
D. Explanation of the City of Cambridge according to Kathy.
E. But Kathy Podgers talks about other abuses of the Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Government.
3. Your editor’s reaction.
1. Introductory.
The Cambridge City Council has voted to look into furthering restricting the information they allow the public to present to the Cambridge City Council in the meetings of the Cambridge City Council.
The vote was 8 to 1.
Public participation in Cambridge City Council meetings is dramatically reduced as it is. The public is prohibited from talking in the meetings about anything except things the Cambridge City Council wants to talk about. Then the public has a three minute limit on the amount of words the public can say. And the public can only comment before the matter is discussed by the Cambridge City Council.
The restrictions get so bad that the city staff is allowed to make false statements about the positions that particular members of the public may have. I was once prohibited from responding to a flat out lie made about my position. The chair ruled that it was my flat out duty to foresee the flat out lie and respond to the flat out lie before it was said.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that very few intrepid souls bother to comment in city council meetings.
The Cambridge City Council, however, seems to think that the Cambridge City Council is hearing too much public opinion.
Thus, the reasonable question is: what is going on?
2. Kathy Podgers?
A. Probable Cause of Violation of Her Civil Rights.
One possible explanation could be that Kathy Podgers is embarrassing the Cambridge City Council by exposing the Cambridge City Council to reality.
You see, the Cambridge City Council and its City Manager has an extremely active and visible group, the Cambridge Pols, who are the approved talkers about the Cambridge City Government. This well organized clique can be relied upon to say some of the most bizarre, favorable things about these people.
The Cambridge Pols have the nerve to call the Cambridge City Council pro-environment. The Cambridge Pols even have the nerve to call the Cambridge City Council pro-civil rights.
The latter is one aspect to where Kathy Podgers comes in. You see, Kathy Podgers has had two findings of probable cause to determine that her civil rights have been violated by the Cambridge City Council. You see, the City of Cambridge and the City Council has problems with Kathy using a guide dog. Things have gotten so bad that a group of rogue cops abused the guide dog in the lobby of the Cambridge Police Station and apparently have not been punished.
The Cambridge City Council, through its mayor, tried to throw Kathy Podgers out of a Cambridge City Council meeting because the Cambridge City Council objected to the presence of her guide dog. So the two findings of probable cause of violation of this handicapped woman’s civil rights.
B. Explanation of the Cambridge Pols.
The explanation of the Cambridge Pols is pretty predictable. This is one little person. How dare anybody object to the Cambridge City Council abusing the civil rights of one little person. This explanation is very similar to the Cambridge Pols explanation of some of the more irresponsible treatment of the environment. You listen to the Cambridge Pols talk about the Charles River White Geese, and you would be certain that you are listening to a wife abuser talk about his wife.
C. Explanation of the Cambridge City Council.
As is usual with the Cambridge City Council on the outrageous behavior by the Cambridge City Council, their explanation is silence.
And you can’t talk in the Cambridge City Council meetings about something on which the Cambridge City Council is silent.
D. Explanation of the City of Cambridge according to Kathy.
Kathy has had a number of incidents in which she has been evicted from public places because the public places object to the presence of her guide dog.
According to Kathy, the City of Cambridge sees nothing wrong with this behavior. Evicting Kathy because of her guide dog violated federal civil rights laws. Cambridge has its own civil rights laws. Cambridge is above obeying federal laws which grant more civil rights than do Cambridge laws.
E. But Kathy Podgers talks about other abuses of the Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Government.
Kathy actually has the nerve to think that the Cambridge should be respecting the laws of Massachusetts and the laws of the United States.
Kathy has the nerve to say these horrible things in public.
Kathy has the nerve to say things which contradict the propaganda put out by the Cambridge Pols as cheerleaders for the Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Government.
Behavior such as this is unacceptable in the City of Cambridge.
3. Your editor’s reaction.
There are various other really nasty explanations for this initiative toward further censorship. I will go into those explanations at a later date.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Rose Kennedy Greenway and Memorial Drive
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Summary.
2. Comment of a Key Cambridge Pol.
3. Response to the Bad Guy.
4. Final Comments.
1. Summary.
The Charles River White Geese are the most valuable asset the City of Cambridge and the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation have in their part of the Charles River.
They have lived, beloved by the general public, in a mile long habitat centered on the BU Bridge since 1981.
Nine heartless animal abusers on the Cambridge City Council have deliberately starved these beautiful animals since 2004 as part of a truly bizarre project at Magazine Beach, formerly their principal feeding area. The nine heartless abusers now propose to poison their food at Magazine Beach by replacing GREEN playing fields with CHEMICAL maintained playing fields.
The same City of Cambridge has had two findings of probable cause made against them at the state’s Commission Against Discrimination as part of their fight to keep a handicapped elderly woman from using her guide dog.
The fight against the guide dog was punctuated by a group of rogue cops abusing the guide dog in the lobby of the police station by siccing a pit bull on the guide dog.
Keeping this sick situation going is large well organized group, the Cambridge Pols. Their explanation for their behavior are attacks on the beautiful Charles River White Geese and on the handicapped woman with words that sound strikingly like a WIFE ABUSER justifying his abuse of his wife.
But they do do a lot of lying about which side they are on.
Cambridge has a really, really vile political situation.
2. Comment of a Key Cambridge Pol.
The following comment was placed on his listserve on March 11, 2007 by a Cambridge pol who runs an organization he calls a neighborhood organization.
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Subject: The Greenway and the Memorial Drive way
Award winning Boston Globe columnist Steve Bailey, (who I am told was asked to leave the Globe as part of cost cutting), wrote a great business section column Friday March 7, 08 on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and the focus of the column was on limiting height and density to preserve the open space, parkway feeling that was the purpose of the Greenway in the first place. Here is a link to Steve Bailey's column.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2008/03/07/greenway_sanity/
The development pressures around the Greenway are phenomenal. Builders are proposing 800 foot tall towers according to Bailey, which would make the Greenway a shadow-way. Anyhoo, these issues are of course almost perfectly parallel to the issues that the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association and others have been addressing regarding open space along Mem Drive, so as we learn about the Mem Drive open space issues, it is certainly relevant to be aware of these looming Greenway debates involving parallel issues.
3. Response to the Bad Guy.
I offered the following response to the listserve. It has not been distributed yet. The Cambridge pols find comments which reflect reality unacceptable, but they sure can heap wife-beater type abuse on their victims when nothing else works.
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The obvious response on Memorial Drive is to kill and otherwise reverse the initiatives of the Cambridge Pols and their buddies.
The destruction of Magazine Beach to replace the GREEN there with chemicals, apparently including chemicals to drive away animal life (Ebersol Fields) must immediately be reversed.
Actions to starve local wildlife must immediately be reversed.
The Memorial Drive Overlay District must be killed.
Actions to turn the Grand Junction Railroad into an extension of the Binney Connector, paired with Vassar Street must be killed.
Any and all actions to assist moving the Mass. Pike exit to the Grand Junction railroad bridge (and then by way of the railroad and Vassar Street to the Binney Connector / Inner Belt must be killed.
Plans to destroy from 499 to 660 healthy trees between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge, including every Cherry Tree must be killed.
Etc.
A lot of stuff the Cambridge pols have been fighting for must die.
Trouble is that the Cambridge pols have been very consistent over the years, great words, exactly the wrong actions.
4. Final Comments.
The language of the bad guy is instructive: "As we learn about the Mem Drive open space issues" gives the impression of good intent.
We have been telling them about the destructive behavior for eight years including very strong documentation, and SOMEHOW, they just cannot understand where the problem is.
I learned quite awhile ago, with regard to another key Cambridge pol, that they just cannot be that stupid.
An excellent example is the "Green" organization this guy's friends have created which claims to represent Cambridgeport, but which does not want to know about the bizarre projects at Magazine Beach.
But the Cambridge pols sure do like Wife Abuser type comments aimed at their victims.
The reality is that, as my comments in 3 above demonstrate, there is a lot going on here, and a fake neighborhood association controlled by them is a well established Cambridge pol tactic to PREVENT ORGANIZATION.
1. Summary.
2. Comment of a Key Cambridge Pol.
3. Response to the Bad Guy.
4. Final Comments.
1. Summary.
The Charles River White Geese are the most valuable asset the City of Cambridge and the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation have in their part of the Charles River.
They have lived, beloved by the general public, in a mile long habitat centered on the BU Bridge since 1981.
Nine heartless animal abusers on the Cambridge City Council have deliberately starved these beautiful animals since 2004 as part of a truly bizarre project at Magazine Beach, formerly their principal feeding area. The nine heartless abusers now propose to poison their food at Magazine Beach by replacing GREEN playing fields with CHEMICAL maintained playing fields.
The same City of Cambridge has had two findings of probable cause made against them at the state’s Commission Against Discrimination as part of their fight to keep a handicapped elderly woman from using her guide dog.
The fight against the guide dog was punctuated by a group of rogue cops abusing the guide dog in the lobby of the police station by siccing a pit bull on the guide dog.
Keeping this sick situation going is large well organized group, the Cambridge Pols. Their explanation for their behavior are attacks on the beautiful Charles River White Geese and on the handicapped woman with words that sound strikingly like a WIFE ABUSER justifying his abuse of his wife.
But they do do a lot of lying about which side they are on.
Cambridge has a really, really vile political situation.
2. Comment of a Key Cambridge Pol.
The following comment was placed on his listserve on March 11, 2007 by a Cambridge pol who runs an organization he calls a neighborhood organization.
*************
Subject: The Greenway and the Memorial Drive way
Award winning Boston Globe columnist Steve Bailey, (who I am told was asked to leave the Globe as part of cost cutting), wrote a great business section column Friday March 7, 08 on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and the focus of the column was on limiting height and density to preserve the open space, parkway feeling that was the purpose of the Greenway in the first place. Here is a link to Steve Bailey's column.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2008/03/07/greenway_sanity/
The development pressures around the Greenway are phenomenal. Builders are proposing 800 foot tall towers according to Bailey, which would make the Greenway a shadow-way. Anyhoo, these issues are of course almost perfectly parallel to the issues that the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association and others have been addressing regarding open space along Mem Drive, so as we learn about the Mem Drive open space issues, it is certainly relevant to be aware of these looming Greenway debates involving parallel issues.
3. Response to the Bad Guy.
I offered the following response to the listserve. It has not been distributed yet. The Cambridge pols find comments which reflect reality unacceptable, but they sure can heap wife-beater type abuse on their victims when nothing else works.
************
The obvious response on Memorial Drive is to kill and otherwise reverse the initiatives of the Cambridge Pols and their buddies.
The destruction of Magazine Beach to replace the GREEN there with chemicals, apparently including chemicals to drive away animal life (Ebersol Fields) must immediately be reversed.
Actions to starve local wildlife must immediately be reversed.
The Memorial Drive Overlay District must be killed.
Actions to turn the Grand Junction Railroad into an extension of the Binney Connector, paired with Vassar Street must be killed.
Any and all actions to assist moving the Mass. Pike exit to the Grand Junction railroad bridge (and then by way of the railroad and Vassar Street to the Binney Connector / Inner Belt must be killed.
Plans to destroy from 499 to 660 healthy trees between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge, including every Cherry Tree must be killed.
Etc.
A lot of stuff the Cambridge pols have been fighting for must die.
Trouble is that the Cambridge pols have been very consistent over the years, great words, exactly the wrong actions.
4. Final Comments.
The language of the bad guy is instructive: "As we learn about the Mem Drive open space issues" gives the impression of good intent.
We have been telling them about the destructive behavior for eight years including very strong documentation, and SOMEHOW, they just cannot understand where the problem is.
I learned quite awhile ago, with regard to another key Cambridge pol, that they just cannot be that stupid.
An excellent example is the "Green" organization this guy's friends have created which claims to represent Cambridgeport, but which does not want to know about the bizarre projects at Magazine Beach.
But the Cambridge pols sure do like Wife Abuser type comments aimed at their victims.
The reality is that, as my comments in 3 above demonstrate, there is a lot going on here, and a fake neighborhood association controlled by them is a well established Cambridge pol tactic to PREVENT ORGANIZATION.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Psychoanalyzing a Heartless Animal Abuser
Bob La Trémouille reports:
When I first became aware of the plans of the City of Cambridge for the Magazine Beach area in Fall 1997, I could not get anybody to believe me.
First of all, there clearly was no need to "improve" Magazine Beach. Second of all, who would be so heartless and wasteful as to harm the habitat of the beautiful and extremely valuable Charles River White Geese.
After the announcement of the City Manager’s plans, the Department of Conservation and Recreation sought to receive complaints against the Charles River White Geese. Cambridge pols who had organized the show-and-tell of the City Manager’s plans happily filed complaint.
After the Cambridge City Manager announced his plans, the Cambridge Pols happily started running around bad-mouthing the Charles River White Geese.
The DCR talked about complaints against the Charles River White Geese as excuse for their heartless treatment of the geese. Friends of the White Geese made a freedom of information demand.
THE ONLY COMPLAINT received against the Charles River White Geese since their first residence in 1981 turned out to be the complaint filed by the Cambridge Pol group IN RESPONSE TO the request of the DCR.
The sort of personal destruction which the Cambridge Pols attempted to inflict on Kathy Podgers in the Cambridge Chronicle was strikingly similar to the activities of the Cambridge Pols against the Charles River White Geese. The Cambridge Pols started badmouthing and belittling beings who were and continue to be the city and state’s most valuable resource on their part of the Charles River.
The geese are the subject of tourist visits. The geese are beloved by commuters, by a large number of locals and by so many people who just happen to encounter them.
The Cambridge Pols got very busy and very nasty.
When Peter Valentine attempted to get Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons to behave like a responsible human being with regard to the Charles River and the Charles River White Geese, Simmons spouted words which reaffirmed the campaign of destruction by the Cambridge pols.
Demeaning your victim is key to an abuser. Dehumanizing, devaluing is key to an abuser.
There was no way Simmons was about to treat the Charles River White Geese as anything of any value whatsoever.
This is not unique to Simmons. It just happens to be specifically recognizable through a recognized third party.
They spout this standard abuser garbage and they fit the mold.
Cambridge politics is a very filthy entity and the heartless animal abusers upon whom Cambridge politics revolve fit the mold.
When I first became aware of the plans of the City of Cambridge for the Magazine Beach area in Fall 1997, I could not get anybody to believe me.
First of all, there clearly was no need to "improve" Magazine Beach. Second of all, who would be so heartless and wasteful as to harm the habitat of the beautiful and extremely valuable Charles River White Geese.
After the announcement of the City Manager’s plans, the Department of Conservation and Recreation sought to receive complaints against the Charles River White Geese. Cambridge pols who had organized the show-and-tell of the City Manager’s plans happily filed complaint.
After the Cambridge City Manager announced his plans, the Cambridge Pols happily started running around bad-mouthing the Charles River White Geese.
The DCR talked about complaints against the Charles River White Geese as excuse for their heartless treatment of the geese. Friends of the White Geese made a freedom of information demand.
THE ONLY COMPLAINT received against the Charles River White Geese since their first residence in 1981 turned out to be the complaint filed by the Cambridge Pol group IN RESPONSE TO the request of the DCR.
The sort of personal destruction which the Cambridge Pols attempted to inflict on Kathy Podgers in the Cambridge Chronicle was strikingly similar to the activities of the Cambridge Pols against the Charles River White Geese. The Cambridge Pols started badmouthing and belittling beings who were and continue to be the city and state’s most valuable resource on their part of the Charles River.
The geese are the subject of tourist visits. The geese are beloved by commuters, by a large number of locals and by so many people who just happen to encounter them.
The Cambridge Pols got very busy and very nasty.
When Peter Valentine attempted to get Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons to behave like a responsible human being with regard to the Charles River and the Charles River White Geese, Simmons spouted words which reaffirmed the campaign of destruction by the Cambridge pols.
Demeaning your victim is key to an abuser. Dehumanizing, devaluing is key to an abuser.
There was no way Simmons was about to treat the Charles River White Geese as anything of any value whatsoever.
This is not unique to Simmons. It just happens to be specifically recognizable through a recognized third party.
They spout this standard abuser garbage and they fit the mold.
Cambridge politics is a very filthy entity and the heartless animal abusers upon whom Cambridge politics revolve fit the mold.
Monday, March 03, 2008
"Environmental" Councilor Can Be Made to Oppose Destruction of Green?
Bob La Trémouille reports:
The letter to the Cambridge Chronicle editor was published in the Chronicle on February 21, 2008.
The following Tuesday one of the usual Cambridge pol type groups held a meeting which discussed the Charles River.
In attendance were the local State Rep, State Senator and a city councilor who has run very beligerently as an environmentalist. The Rep, Walz, continued to support the environmental destruction at Magazine Beach. The Senator was willing to talk and the city councilor offered to allow constituents to talk him into opposing destruction of the Green at Magazine Beach.
I am reminded of an attempt by Peter Valentine, a very fine person and supporter of the Charles River White Geese, to interest the latest Cambridge Mayor in behaving responsibly on the Charles River. She flatly and simply ruled out any discussion of NOT indulging in heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese.
An honest translation of her opinion:
HOW DARE YOU EXPECT ME TO REFRAIN FROM HEARTLESS ABUSE OF THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE. THEY ARE THE LITTLE GUY!!!
The ongoing destruction of thousands of healthy trees at Fresh Pond combines with the destruction of the homes of thousands of animals and the creation of homelessness for them.
That letter published in the Chronicle referred to the abuse of a guide dog in the lobby of the Cambridge Police Station by a rogue cop in a room containing other rogue cops who did nothing. The rogue cop on duty at the desk both did nothing and refused to accept a complaint concerning an outrage which occurred to his face.
A more accurate condemnation of the situation concerning animals in the City of Cambridge is that we have nine belligerent animal abusers who are proud of it except that they try to hide themselves to responsible people.
Those rogue cops in the police station lobby abusing the guide dog were implementing very sick policy coming straight from a truly reprehensible city government.
I have compared the current situation in the City of Cambridge to the stench I noticed when working with the Walsh law firm in the 80's. None of the people from the Walsh law firm who went to jail were jailed for bribery.
The letter to the Cambridge Chronicle editor was published in the Chronicle on February 21, 2008.
The following Tuesday one of the usual Cambridge pol type groups held a meeting which discussed the Charles River.
In attendance were the local State Rep, State Senator and a city councilor who has run very beligerently as an environmentalist. The Rep, Walz, continued to support the environmental destruction at Magazine Beach. The Senator was willing to talk and the city councilor offered to allow constituents to talk him into opposing destruction of the Green at Magazine Beach.
I am reminded of an attempt by Peter Valentine, a very fine person and supporter of the Charles River White Geese, to interest the latest Cambridge Mayor in behaving responsibly on the Charles River. She flatly and simply ruled out any discussion of NOT indulging in heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese.
An honest translation of her opinion:
HOW DARE YOU EXPECT ME TO REFRAIN FROM HEARTLESS ABUSE OF THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE. THEY ARE THE LITTLE GUY!!!
The ongoing destruction of thousands of healthy trees at Fresh Pond combines with the destruction of the homes of thousands of animals and the creation of homelessness for them.
That letter published in the Chronicle referred to the abuse of a guide dog in the lobby of the Cambridge Police Station by a rogue cop in a room containing other rogue cops who did nothing. The rogue cop on duty at the desk both did nothing and refused to accept a complaint concerning an outrage which occurred to his face.
A more accurate condemnation of the situation concerning animals in the City of Cambridge is that we have nine belligerent animal abusers who are proud of it except that they try to hide themselves to responsible people.
Those rogue cops in the police station lobby abusing the guide dog were implementing very sick policy coming straight from a truly reprehensible city government.
I have compared the current situation in the City of Cambridge to the stench I noticed when working with the Walsh law firm in the 80's. None of the people from the Walsh law firm who went to jail were jailed for bribery.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Letter Published
Bob La Trémouille reports:
On February 16, I reported on the Cambridge Chronicle shutting down comments in its on line edition on reports published in the Chronicle. I included in my report a letter I had submitted to the Chronicle editor on the subject.
The letter I submitted was published on page 10 of the February 21 edition. Without going into a detailed comparison, it definitely sounds unedited.
Frankly, I was very surprised. I only learned about the publication from a friend on the street this morning. I confirmed it in the back issues rack at the Public Library.
Even with with the moderating edits which I pointed out in my report, that was a strong letter. The Chronicle editor is to be thanked and commended.
On February 16, I reported on the Cambridge Chronicle shutting down comments in its on line edition on reports published in the Chronicle. I included in my report a letter I had submitted to the Chronicle editor on the subject.
The letter I submitted was published on page 10 of the February 21 edition. Without going into a detailed comparison, it definitely sounds unedited.
Frankly, I was very surprised. I only learned about the publication from a friend on the street this morning. I confirmed it in the back issues rack at the Public Library.
Even with with the moderating edits which I pointed out in my report, that was a strong letter. The Chronicle editor is to be thanked and commended.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Cambridge Chronicle shuts down on line comments on articles
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Introduction.
2. Civil Rights a saving grace?
3. No way is Civil Rights a saving grace.
4. Self-censorship. Rogue cops. Jim Crow.
5. Cambridge Chronicle editor position.
6. Response by your editor to the Cambridge Chronicle editor.
1. Introduction.
The truly sick abuse being afflicted on the beautiful and extremely popular Charles River White Geese as part of the bizarre project at Magazine Beach says pretty much everything that needs to be known about nine Cambridge City Councilors and their cohorts at state level. They plan to very quickly make things much worse by destroying the green playing fields at Magazine Beach and replacing the green playing fields with grass maintained by poisons.
The nine hypocrites on the Cambridge City Council extended their reprehensible behavior from heartless treatment of the Charles River White Geese and other Charles River animals to the destruction of the homes and habitat of hundreds if not thousands of free animals living at Fresh Pond. These nine hypocrites have proceeded with a bizarre project at Fresh Pond which, among other things, is destroying thousands of healthy trees to plant one thousand saplings.
2. Civil Rights a saving grace?
Throughout their reprehensible behavior against the Cambridge environment, the apologists for these vile indivuals bragged about the record of the nine on civil rights.
3. No way is Civil Rights a saving grace.
Kathy Podgers has been abused by the Cambridge government for a number of years.
Shopkeepers have more than once barred her guide dog in spite of the clear protections that that guide dog has under Federal law.
The Cambridge government has been unsupportive of Kathy's civil rights. They claimed that Cambridge has its own civil rights laws and thus Cambridge does not have to obey Federal civil rights laws.
A little over a year ago, the Cambridge City Council tried to throw Kathy's guide dog out of a City Council meeting.
Kathy filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The MCAD now has made two findings of probable cause of discrimination.
4. Self-censorship. Rogue cops. Jim Crow.
The Cambridge Chronicle reported the recent victory both in its hard copy and on line.
The on line edition allows comment on stories. The Cambridge Pols unleashed personal attacks and taunts in at least five to ten written on line attacks on Kathy Podgers. I responded three times with objections to their behavior accordingly.
Last summer, Kathy's guide dog was abused in the public area of the Cambridge Police Station by a bunch of rogue cops (one actor, the rest "failing to protect" the victim). She filed complaint with the department head. I am not aware of any punishment or apology. I commented on that abuse in my response.
Cambridge's selective respect for civil rights strikes me as outrageous. An excellent example is Cambridge insistence that Cambridge's ordinance is good enough and that Federal laws be damned if Federal laws provide more protection than Cambridge's ordinance.
This stinks of Jim Crow. The Jim Crow south had their own Civil Rights laws. The Jim Crow south protected those they thought should be protected. The Jim Crow south was outraged that the Federal government actually expected the Jim Crow south to obey federal civil rights laws. The Jim Crow south used rogue cops to enforce their contempt for civil rights.
Cambridge's treatment of Kathy, including the personal attacks and taunts on the Chronicle website, stinks to me of Jim Crow.
My objections were pulled by the Cambridge Chronicle three times. Before the third time, I realized that there were buttons on the comments allowing readers to object to objectionable content. Clearly the sick Cambridge Pols were clicking on that button when they saw comments which meaningfully stood up to them. The third time, I clicked on the buttons associated with the personal attacks and taunts. My comment was pulled. Then the Chronicle shut down public comments.
There was a letter in the Cambridge Chronicle on Thursday objecting to the shutdown of comments.
My letter below, submitted to the Cambridge Chronicle yesterday, omits saying the abuse of the guide dog was done by rogue cops. My letter omits the accurate association of the nine Cambridge City Councilors with the Jim Crow south.
5. Cambridge Chronicle editor position.
The Cambridge Chronicle editor announced the comment shutdown as follows:
**********
Cambridge - Most of the conversations happening at WickedLocal.com/Cambridge are spirited and informational. But a number of them have been just mean-spirited.
With this in mind, we must shut down comments on all our new stories. I personally apologize that we must remove this feature, but until we have the ability to block repeated offenders who wish to spread ignorance, fear and lots of profanity, it must go.
Please keep reading this space for updates, but know there are still ways you can weigh in here on your local news site. Continue to comment on the Chronicle's blog here, where you can talk about all things Cambridge. Feel good about writing a letter to Cambridge@cnc.com which we can publish online. Or call our print-only SpeakOut line at 617-715-5050.
And for those who have kept the conversation clean these past months, thank you. I hope to work with the good folks here to come up with a solution for you soon.
6. Response by your editor to the Cambridge Chronicle editor.
The following, in accordance with Chronicle practice, was sent by me Friday before noon to make it timely for next Thursday's paper:
**********
I think you are to be commended for shutting down what was a nasty situation on line.
Kathy Podgers' interim victory over abuse of her federally guaranteed civil rights by the City of Cambridge exposed the very dirty side of the unified group of Cambridge Pols who keep a nasty situation going by calling it the exact opposite.
When the facts are the opposite of the propaganda, the propaganda gets tossed out anyway. If non stop falsehoods will not work, personal attacks are mercilessly used with the deliberate intent of destroying a person fighting for what the Cambridge Pols falsely claim to stand for.
Cambridge has filthy hands on environmental and civil rights issues.
Cambridge has filthy hands on environmental issues with the worst, but by no means the only, examples being, at Fresh Pond, the needless destruction of perhaps thousands of trees and associated animal habitat in the bizarre project, and, on the Charles River, the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese as part of the bizarre project.
On civil rights, Cambridge clearly calls itself above federal law. If Cambridge does not protect somebody in its local civil rights ordinance, Cambridge has clearly called itself exempt from Federal laws which do protect people not protected by the Cambridge ordinance. Kathy Podgers has, with success, stood up to this highly irresponsible position and now has two victories at state level.
The Cambridge Pols have responded with great nastiness.
KATHY'S GUIDE DOG HAS BEEN PHYSICALLY ATTACKED. How can anybody be so irresponsible as to attack a guide dog? Well, this is Cambridge, a city governed by holier than thou hypocrisy. So the Cambridge Pols physically attacked her guide dog.
Your report on Kathy's victories was turned into another effort at destroying Kathy rather than obeying the requirements of civil rights law.
Pols abused her on line. Pols mocked her on line. Pols taunted her on line.
Kathy would likely have settled for an apology at the state. The Cambridge Pols will respect nothing less than a big cut of money taken out of the tax rate. Kathy should proceed. What has been physically done to her dog and verbally done to her on line is just part of the problem.
Cambridge politics is a very filthy place and a very hypocritical place.
The Cambridge Chronicle has shut down use of its website as part of standing up to the filthiness.
Thank you.
1. Introduction.
2. Civil Rights a saving grace?
3. No way is Civil Rights a saving grace.
4. Self-censorship. Rogue cops. Jim Crow.
5. Cambridge Chronicle editor position.
6. Response by your editor to the Cambridge Chronicle editor.
1. Introduction.
The truly sick abuse being afflicted on the beautiful and extremely popular Charles River White Geese as part of the bizarre project at Magazine Beach says pretty much everything that needs to be known about nine Cambridge City Councilors and their cohorts at state level. They plan to very quickly make things much worse by destroying the green playing fields at Magazine Beach and replacing the green playing fields with grass maintained by poisons.
The nine hypocrites on the Cambridge City Council extended their reprehensible behavior from heartless treatment of the Charles River White Geese and other Charles River animals to the destruction of the homes and habitat of hundreds if not thousands of free animals living at Fresh Pond. These nine hypocrites have proceeded with a bizarre project at Fresh Pond which, among other things, is destroying thousands of healthy trees to plant one thousand saplings.
2. Civil Rights a saving grace?
Throughout their reprehensible behavior against the Cambridge environment, the apologists for these vile indivuals bragged about the record of the nine on civil rights.
3. No way is Civil Rights a saving grace.
Kathy Podgers has been abused by the Cambridge government for a number of years.
Shopkeepers have more than once barred her guide dog in spite of the clear protections that that guide dog has under Federal law.
The Cambridge government has been unsupportive of Kathy's civil rights. They claimed that Cambridge has its own civil rights laws and thus Cambridge does not have to obey Federal civil rights laws.
A little over a year ago, the Cambridge City Council tried to throw Kathy's guide dog out of a City Council meeting.
Kathy filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The MCAD now has made two findings of probable cause of discrimination.
4. Self-censorship. Rogue cops. Jim Crow.
The Cambridge Chronicle reported the recent victory both in its hard copy and on line.
The on line edition allows comment on stories. The Cambridge Pols unleashed personal attacks and taunts in at least five to ten written on line attacks on Kathy Podgers. I responded three times with objections to their behavior accordingly.
Last summer, Kathy's guide dog was abused in the public area of the Cambridge Police Station by a bunch of rogue cops (one actor, the rest "failing to protect" the victim). She filed complaint with the department head. I am not aware of any punishment or apology. I commented on that abuse in my response.
Cambridge's selective respect for civil rights strikes me as outrageous. An excellent example is Cambridge insistence that Cambridge's ordinance is good enough and that Federal laws be damned if Federal laws provide more protection than Cambridge's ordinance.
This stinks of Jim Crow. The Jim Crow south had their own Civil Rights laws. The Jim Crow south protected those they thought should be protected. The Jim Crow south was outraged that the Federal government actually expected the Jim Crow south to obey federal civil rights laws. The Jim Crow south used rogue cops to enforce their contempt for civil rights.
Cambridge's treatment of Kathy, including the personal attacks and taunts on the Chronicle website, stinks to me of Jim Crow.
My objections were pulled by the Cambridge Chronicle three times. Before the third time, I realized that there were buttons on the comments allowing readers to object to objectionable content. Clearly the sick Cambridge Pols were clicking on that button when they saw comments which meaningfully stood up to them. The third time, I clicked on the buttons associated with the personal attacks and taunts. My comment was pulled. Then the Chronicle shut down public comments.
There was a letter in the Cambridge Chronicle on Thursday objecting to the shutdown of comments.
My letter below, submitted to the Cambridge Chronicle yesterday, omits saying the abuse of the guide dog was done by rogue cops. My letter omits the accurate association of the nine Cambridge City Councilors with the Jim Crow south.
5. Cambridge Chronicle editor position.
The Cambridge Chronicle editor announced the comment shutdown as follows:
**********
Cambridge - Most of the conversations happening at WickedLocal.com/Cambridge are spirited and informational. But a number of them have been just mean-spirited.
With this in mind, we must shut down comments on all our new stories. I personally apologize that we must remove this feature, but until we have the ability to block repeated offenders who wish to spread ignorance, fear and lots of profanity, it must go.
Please keep reading this space for updates, but know there are still ways you can weigh in here on your local news site. Continue to comment on the Chronicle's blog here, where you can talk about all things Cambridge. Feel good about writing a letter to Cambridge@cnc.com which we can publish online. Or call our print-only SpeakOut line at 617-715-5050.
And for those who have kept the conversation clean these past months, thank you. I hope to work with the good folks here to come up with a solution for you soon.
6. Response by your editor to the Cambridge Chronicle editor.
The following, in accordance with Chronicle practice, was sent by me Friday before noon to make it timely for next Thursday's paper:
**********
I think you are to be commended for shutting down what was a nasty situation on line.
Kathy Podgers' interim victory over abuse of her federally guaranteed civil rights by the City of Cambridge exposed the very dirty side of the unified group of Cambridge Pols who keep a nasty situation going by calling it the exact opposite.
When the facts are the opposite of the propaganda, the propaganda gets tossed out anyway. If non stop falsehoods will not work, personal attacks are mercilessly used with the deliberate intent of destroying a person fighting for what the Cambridge Pols falsely claim to stand for.
Cambridge has filthy hands on environmental and civil rights issues.
Cambridge has filthy hands on environmental issues with the worst, but by no means the only, examples being, at Fresh Pond, the needless destruction of perhaps thousands of trees and associated animal habitat in the bizarre project, and, on the Charles River, the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese as part of the bizarre project.
On civil rights, Cambridge clearly calls itself above federal law. If Cambridge does not protect somebody in its local civil rights ordinance, Cambridge has clearly called itself exempt from Federal laws which do protect people not protected by the Cambridge ordinance. Kathy Podgers has, with success, stood up to this highly irresponsible position and now has two victories at state level.
The Cambridge Pols have responded with great nastiness.
KATHY'S GUIDE DOG HAS BEEN PHYSICALLY ATTACKED. How can anybody be so irresponsible as to attack a guide dog? Well, this is Cambridge, a city governed by holier than thou hypocrisy. So the Cambridge Pols physically attacked her guide dog.
Your report on Kathy's victories was turned into another effort at destroying Kathy rather than obeying the requirements of civil rights law.
Pols abused her on line. Pols mocked her on line. Pols taunted her on line.
Kathy would likely have settled for an apology at the state. The Cambridge Pols will respect nothing less than a big cut of money taken out of the tax rate. Kathy should proceed. What has been physically done to her dog and verbally done to her on line is just part of the problem.
Cambridge politics is a very filthy place and a very hypocritical place.
The Cambridge Chronicle has shut down use of its website as part of standing up to the filthiness.
Thank you.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Con Game on the Charles from Cambridge City Councillor Craig Kelley
Bob La Trémouille reports:
Cambridge City Councillor Craig Kelley got elected to Cambridge City Council the first time by presenting himself as a meaningful environmental activist.
He played the same game that all the Cambridge Pols and the rest of the hypocrites on the Cambridge City Council do:
Do as I say, not as I do.
In Cambridge that translates into non-stop destruction of that part of the world that only they can destroy while loudly yelling about anything and everything other than their own so reprehensible behavior.
Kelley has discovered the Charles River. Kelley has spent years not wanting to know about Cambridge and the state's consistently reprehensible behavior on the Charles River.
Kelley does not want to know about the 449 to 660 trees slated for destruction by the DCR between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge, including every single cherry tree.
Kelley does not want to know about the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese or the more than three year starvation attack on them by Cambridge and the DCR.
Kelley does not want to know about the bizarre, inexcuseable destruction going on at Magazine Beach which is schedule to get much worse.
Kelley does not want to know about the poisoning of the Charles River AND THE LOCAL WILDLIFE by the dumping of poisons BY THE STATE AND, SOON TO COME, BY HIM on the lands abutting the Charles.
Kelley does not want to know that, in a project strikingly similar to HIS project at Magazine Beach, the Charles River was poisoned by the State from the harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge.
Kelley's only comment on the outrage at Magazine Beach came when he learned that a bridge connecting Magazine Beach to the other side of Memorial Drive had been damaged. He specifically said that that FINALLY he had him something to complain about at Magazine Beach. After the destruction of the wetlands, after the heartless starvation, after the bizarre blocking of access between the Charles River and the playing fields, after the destruction of the animal habitat.
Now, Kelley has heard there is something dirty in the Charles near the side facing Magazine Beach of the Longfellow Bridge. Kelley has no reason to think that HE OR HIS BUDDIES might be causing that mess.
So Kelley brought the problem up at Monday's City Council meeting.
What about his own poisoning?
What about all the trees BEHIND HIM, as he stands by the Longfellow Bridge which are slated by the DCR for wasteful destruction as he looks at the dirt HE HOPES somebody else did?
Kelley does not want to know about that.
KELLEY WANTS TO LIE TO HIS CONSTITUENTS that he is DEFENDING the Charles River.
KELLEY WANT TO KEEP HIS CONSTITUENTS FROM LOOKING AT HIS OWN FILTHY HANDS.
Kelley has found something to defend against on the Charles River.
That something could very likely be the results of the POISONING of Ebersol Fields on the other side of the Longfellow bridge and the south side of the Charles River, POISONING BEING FOLLOWED UP WITH BY POISONING SOON TO COME AT MAGAZINE BEACH WITH KELLEY PAYING THE BILL.
But Kelley does not want to know that.
Cambridge City Councillor Craig Kelley got elected to Cambridge City Council the first time by presenting himself as a meaningful environmental activist.
He played the same game that all the Cambridge Pols and the rest of the hypocrites on the Cambridge City Council do:
Do as I say, not as I do.
In Cambridge that translates into non-stop destruction of that part of the world that only they can destroy while loudly yelling about anything and everything other than their own so reprehensible behavior.
Kelley has discovered the Charles River. Kelley has spent years not wanting to know about Cambridge and the state's consistently reprehensible behavior on the Charles River.
Kelley does not want to know about the 449 to 660 trees slated for destruction by the DCR between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge, including every single cherry tree.
Kelley does not want to know about the heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese or the more than three year starvation attack on them by Cambridge and the DCR.
Kelley does not want to know about the bizarre, inexcuseable destruction going on at Magazine Beach which is schedule to get much worse.
Kelley does not want to know about the poisoning of the Charles River AND THE LOCAL WILDLIFE by the dumping of poisons BY THE STATE AND, SOON TO COME, BY HIM on the lands abutting the Charles.
Kelley does not want to know that, in a project strikingly similar to HIS project at Magazine Beach, the Charles River was poisoned by the State from the harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge.
Kelley's only comment on the outrage at Magazine Beach came when he learned that a bridge connecting Magazine Beach to the other side of Memorial Drive had been damaged. He specifically said that that FINALLY he had him something to complain about at Magazine Beach. After the destruction of the wetlands, after the heartless starvation, after the bizarre blocking of access between the Charles River and the playing fields, after the destruction of the animal habitat.
Now, Kelley has heard there is something dirty in the Charles near the side facing Magazine Beach of the Longfellow Bridge. Kelley has no reason to think that HE OR HIS BUDDIES might be causing that mess.
So Kelley brought the problem up at Monday's City Council meeting.
What about his own poisoning?
What about all the trees BEHIND HIM, as he stands by the Longfellow Bridge which are slated by the DCR for wasteful destruction as he looks at the dirt HE HOPES somebody else did?
Kelley does not want to know about that.
KELLEY WANTS TO LIE TO HIS CONSTITUENTS that he is DEFENDING the Charles River.
KELLEY WANT TO KEEP HIS CONSTITUENTS FROM LOOKING AT HIS OWN FILTHY HANDS.
Kelley has found something to defend against on the Charles River.
That something could very likely be the results of the POISONING of Ebersol Fields on the other side of the Longfellow bridge and the south side of the Charles River, POISONING BEING FOLLOWED UP WITH BY POISONING SOON TO COME AT MAGAZINE BEACH WITH KELLEY PAYING THE BILL.
But Kelley does not want to know that.
Monday, February 11, 2008
MCAD finds probable cause of Cambridge civil rights violations.
Bob La Trémouille reports:
A little over a week ago, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination found probable cause that Cambridge violated the civil rights of Kathy Podgers when Cambridge tried to throw her guide dog out of a Cambridge City Council meeting.
You will recall that Cambridge considers itself above Federal civil rights laws. Cambridge has its own civil rights law, and Cambridge thinks its only duty is to obey ITS civil rights law and that, in Cambridge, people who want more civil rights than Cambridge guarantees are out of luck.
The MCAD is not controlled by Cambridge pols. The MCAD thinks that Cambridge's behavior looks quite unacceptable.
A bunch of rogue cops apparently followed up on the outrage in Cambridge City Council. They followed up by abusing Kathy Podger's guide dog in the lobby of the police station. Last I heard, their fellow police officers continued to treat these rogue cops like police officers.
After all, they are only implementing the clear policy of the Cambridge City Council.
The Cambridge City Council has contempt for civil rights and for guide dogs guaranteed by Federal law.
Nine members of the Cambridge City Council are heartlessly and publicly animal abusers. They have deliberately starved the Charles River White Geese now for more than three years as part of a public works project that only the people paid to do it can love.
And they are heartlessly destroying the animal environment at Fresh Pond while they destroy thousands of healthy trees because the thousands of healthy trees are in the way of a thousand saplings they want to plant.
Hey, so rogue cops implemented their vile positions.
Cambridge, the city in which guide dogs are abused by rogue cops, the city in which civil rights violators call themselves defenders of civil rights, and environmental destroyers and animal abusers call themselves environmentalists.
At least the MCAD stands up to these reprehensible people.
A little over a week ago, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination found probable cause that Cambridge violated the civil rights of Kathy Podgers when Cambridge tried to throw her guide dog out of a Cambridge City Council meeting.
You will recall that Cambridge considers itself above Federal civil rights laws. Cambridge has its own civil rights law, and Cambridge thinks its only duty is to obey ITS civil rights law and that, in Cambridge, people who want more civil rights than Cambridge guarantees are out of luck.
The MCAD is not controlled by Cambridge pols. The MCAD thinks that Cambridge's behavior looks quite unacceptable.
A bunch of rogue cops apparently followed up on the outrage in Cambridge City Council. They followed up by abusing Kathy Podger's guide dog in the lobby of the police station. Last I heard, their fellow police officers continued to treat these rogue cops like police officers.
After all, they are only implementing the clear policy of the Cambridge City Council.
The Cambridge City Council has contempt for civil rights and for guide dogs guaranteed by Federal law.
Nine members of the Cambridge City Council are heartlessly and publicly animal abusers. They have deliberately starved the Charles River White Geese now for more than three years as part of a public works project that only the people paid to do it can love.
And they are heartlessly destroying the animal environment at Fresh Pond while they destroy thousands of healthy trees because the thousands of healthy trees are in the way of a thousand saplings they want to plant.
Hey, so rogue cops implemented their vile positions.
Cambridge, the city in which guide dogs are abused by rogue cops, the city in which civil rights violators call themselves defenders of civil rights, and environmental destroyers and animal abusers call themselves environmentalists.
At least the MCAD stands up to these reprehensible people.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Chronicle on Wolf, Outrageous Wolf Press Release
1. Chronicle Article on Representative Wolf.
2. Wolf's hypocritical press release.
3. Key omission in Wolf on line biography.
4. Environmental outrage starting with the School Committee, continuing to last year.
5. Summary.
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Chronicle Article on Representative Wolf.
This morning, I noticed a good sized article in the Cambridge Chronicle's on line edition concerning State Representative Alice Wolf. It is perhaps a precursor to tomorrow's hard copy. They print weekly on Thursdays.
You will recall that, last Saturday, I responded to an on-line, reprehensible piece of hypocrisy from Wolf in which she claimed to be defending the Charles River.
Today's article included not a single word on Wolf's attempted claim to environmental sainthood.
2. Wolf's hypocritical press release.
I followed up by checking her website. She has a press release there which shows the level of hypocrisy to which she will stoop. It may be found at: http://www.alicewolf.org/index.cfm?cdid=10608&pid=10266. This press release gives her outrageous claim to environmental sainthood.
3. Key omission in Wolf on line biography.
I found this outrageous item there looking for Alice Wolf's biography. In particular, I was looking for Alice Wolf's period of service on the Cambridge School Committee.
I think it is telling that Alice Wolf's on line biography does not state when Representative Wolf joined the Cambridge School Committee.
4. Environmental outrage starting with the School Committee, continuing to last year.
Elsewhere on this blog, I thought we had a link to Roy Bercaw's photos of the Public Library site. Right now I cannot find it. After I could not find the link, Roy was kind enough to provide another. It is readily available. Thank you again, Roy.
The Public Library was an environmental masterpiece UNTIL THE CAMBRIDGE CITY GOVERNMENT WITH LEADERSHIP FROM THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL COMMITTEE destroyed that environmental masterpiece.
Between the Public Library and Cambridge Street was a magnificent grove of 30 or more ONE HUNDRED YEAR OLD TREES. It created an excellent frame for the Public Library and visually linked Broadway to Cambridge Street.
The Cambridge School Committee and the Cambridge City Government destroyed two-thirds of those trees for a building which did not have to go on top of those trees.
When the Cambridge School Committee and the Cambridge City Government accomplished this destruction they displayed contempt for the gift of the library site by Frederick Rindge.
Rindge gave the city the Public Library site for use as a library and not for use for regular city purposes "such as a school building." Rindge gave adjacent sites for school construction.
The School Committee and the Cambridge City Government bragged that they were "replacing" the HUNDRED YEAR OLD TREES with saplings on Broadway.
The Cambridge City Government destroyed pretty much all of the saplings for the obvious phase 2 of the project last year.
5. Summary.
So, was Alice Wolf, self-proclaimed and extremely hypocritical environmentalist part of yet another environmental outrage?
The repeated environmental vileness of Cambridge pols is most definitely not limited to the Library site and the Charles River. Wolf is a long time Cambridge pol.
Could the clearly reprehensible behavior on the library site be why Alice Wolf does not give the period during which she served on the Cambridge School Committee?
If it was before her tenure, does she have filthy hands anyway?
The Cambridge Pols, a well organized group of environmentally very destructive hypocrites.
2. Wolf's hypocritical press release.
3. Key omission in Wolf on line biography.
4. Environmental outrage starting with the School Committee, continuing to last year.
5. Summary.
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Chronicle Article on Representative Wolf.
This morning, I noticed a good sized article in the Cambridge Chronicle's on line edition concerning State Representative Alice Wolf. It is perhaps a precursor to tomorrow's hard copy. They print weekly on Thursdays.
You will recall that, last Saturday, I responded to an on-line, reprehensible piece of hypocrisy from Wolf in which she claimed to be defending the Charles River.
Today's article included not a single word on Wolf's attempted claim to environmental sainthood.
2. Wolf's hypocritical press release.
I followed up by checking her website. She has a press release there which shows the level of hypocrisy to which she will stoop. It may be found at: http://www.alicewolf.org/index.cfm?cdid=10608&pid=10266. This press release gives her outrageous claim to environmental sainthood.
3. Key omission in Wolf on line biography.
I found this outrageous item there looking for Alice Wolf's biography. In particular, I was looking for Alice Wolf's period of service on the Cambridge School Committee.
I think it is telling that Alice Wolf's on line biography does not state when Representative Wolf joined the Cambridge School Committee.
4. Environmental outrage starting with the School Committee, continuing to last year.
Elsewhere on this blog, I thought we had a link to Roy Bercaw's photos of the Public Library site. Right now I cannot find it. After I could not find the link, Roy was kind enough to provide another. It is readily available. Thank you again, Roy.
The Public Library was an environmental masterpiece UNTIL THE CAMBRIDGE CITY GOVERNMENT WITH LEADERSHIP FROM THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL COMMITTEE destroyed that environmental masterpiece.
Between the Public Library and Cambridge Street was a magnificent grove of 30 or more ONE HUNDRED YEAR OLD TREES. It created an excellent frame for the Public Library and visually linked Broadway to Cambridge Street.
The Cambridge School Committee and the Cambridge City Government destroyed two-thirds of those trees for a building which did not have to go on top of those trees.
When the Cambridge School Committee and the Cambridge City Government accomplished this destruction they displayed contempt for the gift of the library site by Frederick Rindge.
Rindge gave the city the Public Library site for use as a library and not for use for regular city purposes "such as a school building." Rindge gave adjacent sites for school construction.
The School Committee and the Cambridge City Government bragged that they were "replacing" the HUNDRED YEAR OLD TREES with saplings on Broadway.
The Cambridge City Government destroyed pretty much all of the saplings for the obvious phase 2 of the project last year.
5. Summary.
So, was Alice Wolf, self-proclaimed and extremely hypocritical environmentalist part of yet another environmental outrage?
The repeated environmental vileness of Cambridge pols is most definitely not limited to the Library site and the Charles River. Wolf is a long time Cambridge pol.
Could the clearly reprehensible behavior on the library site be why Alice Wolf does not give the period during which she served on the Cambridge School Committee?
If it was before her tenure, does she have filthy hands anyway?
The Cambridge Pols, a well organized group of environmentally very destructive hypocrites.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Representative Wolf Saving the Charles River?
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Introduction. Claim of Wolf to be defending the Charles River.
2. Reconstruction of my Post. I strongly disagreed.
A. Wolf’s Current Record, Ongoing and Continuing Environmental Destruction at Magazine Beach.
B. Related outrage – poisoning the Charles River.
C. Suggestion for constructive action by Representative Wolf — Resign.
3. Explanation of terms. I used the word "lie." It is well intended.
A. Councilor’s Seidel’s Analysis.
B. Comparison of Wolf’s words to Wolf’s Record.
4. Summary. Possible favorable explanation of missing posting.
1. Introduction. Claim of Wolf to be defending the Charles River.
Saturday morning, January 12, 2008, I checked out the Cambridge Chronicle's website at the suggestion of Roy Bercaw. I found a report on an email from Alice Wolf to reporter Erin Smith in which Wolf was claiming that she was getting aggressive in defending the Charles. I filed a response to Representative Wolf. An hour or so later, I checked the Chronicle on line and I was able to find the exchange.
An hour or so after that, I checked it again. At that point, I could not find the exchange, and as of the end of the day, I still could now find the exchange. If anybody reading this report can find the exchange on the Cambridge Chronicle website, I would be very pleased to modify this report accordingly.
2. Reconstruction of my Post. I strongly disagreed.
A. Wolf’s Current Record, Ongoing and Continuing Environmental Destruction at Magazine Beach.
Wolf was claiming that she was getting aggressive in defending the Charles.
I responded that, if Representative Wolf were meaningfully concerned about people destroying the Charles River, she should look in the mirror.
Wolf clearly supports the pending project at Magazine Beach to destroy the GREEN playing fields there and replace the GREEN playing fields with phosphate / poison supported playing fields.
Wolf clearly supported Phase 1 of this outrage commencing in September 2004, in which all wetlands at Magazine Beach, all the protective vegetation at the Magazine Beach playing fields and all the animal habitat at the playing fields were destroyed. The Charles River White Geese commenced to be starved.
Wolf's friends in the Department of Conservation and Recreation had spent four years denying any intent to harm the Charles River White Geese. Wolf's friends say that they, with Wolf's clear blessing, are not harming the geese, they are only starving them.
Wolf's supports this heartless and destructive behavior.
Wolf rather clearly supported and may have participated in a swim-in the following September (not certain of the month) by a bunch of non-profits (at least one with major developer contributors). This swim-in occurred at Magazine Beach and was a well organized photo opportunity. The people in the photo-op bragged that phase 1 would improve swimming in the Charles River.
Phase 1 replaced meaningful environmental entities with a wall of bizarre designer bushes which prevents access between the Magazine Beach playing fields and the Charles River. As is common with the liars so actively destroying the Charles River, phase 1 did exactly the oppositte of "improv[ing] swimming on the Charles River."
These bizarre designer bushes were claimed to be native. These bizarre bushes proved the word "native" false by repeatedly dying.
B. Related outrage – poisoning the Charles River.
The soon to come furtherance of outrage at Magazine Beach by destroying its GREEN character and introducing poisons is not the first such action by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The last such action was at Ebersol Fields on the Boston side of the Charles River near Mass. General Hospital.
The DCR apparently destroyed a GREEN environment and replaced that GREEN environment with an environment sustained by their beloved poisons. The beloved poisons did not work.
About 18 months ago, the DCR applied Tartan herbicide to Ebersol Fields. Tartan’s label prohibits use of Tartan near bodies of water.
THE NEXT DAY, the Charles River was dead from Boston Harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge. So now, the Cambridge pols, the DCR and Representative Wolf, want to extend the benefits of replacing GREEN environment maintenance with their beloved poisons at Magazine Beach.
So now, Representative Wolf, who supports this outrage, is making noises about looking into entities damaging the Charles River environment.
C. Suggestion for constructive action by Representative Wolf — Resign.
If Alice Wolf is meaningfully concerned about protective the environment of the Charles River, the best thing she can do is resign in favor of somebody who has not been involved in the environmental lies keyed on the Charles River.
3. Explanation of terms. I used the word "lie." It is well intended.
A. Councilor’s Seidel’s Analysis.
I think Councilor Siedel did the best job imaginable of condemning Cambridge Pols as a bunch of liars on environmental matters in the article he published in the Alewife newspaper which is published elsewhere in these reports. There is a link at the top of the blog page. The URL is http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2007_05_29_archive.html.
Siedel, in the Cambridge pol manner, bragged about using words which conveyed the opposite of reality.
Basically Siedel brags that the Cambridge pols have their own SECRET definition of environmentalism. Seidel sniffs that this editor is out of touch when this editor keeps on using the English language definition of environmentalism.
My interpretation of Siedel is that he is accurately branding the Cambridge Pols as a bunch of liars. You do not use secret definitions which exactly reverse the meaning of the words you are using and be anything other than a liar.
B. Comparison of Wolf’s words to Wolf’s Record.
Wolf has been and continues to be on the wrong side of the reprehensible environmental destruction at Magazine Beach. Now she claims to be looking into and trying to prevent damage to the Charles.
The two are mutually inconsistent.
4. Summary. Possible favorable explanation of missing posting.
The Cambridge Chronicle seems to be behaving in a responsible manner in general.
That puts the Cambridge Chronicle at variance with the Cambridge pols.
I hope the Cambridge Chronicle uses this occurrence to provide meaningful reporting on the outrage going on on the Charles River including the participation / willful lack of knowledge of Representative Wolf.
Wolf’s attempt to claim sainthood is very clearly inappropriate.
1. Introduction. Claim of Wolf to be defending the Charles River.
2. Reconstruction of my Post. I strongly disagreed.
A. Wolf’s Current Record, Ongoing and Continuing Environmental Destruction at Magazine Beach.
B. Related outrage – poisoning the Charles River.
C. Suggestion for constructive action by Representative Wolf — Resign.
3. Explanation of terms. I used the word "lie." It is well intended.
A. Councilor’s Seidel’s Analysis.
B. Comparison of Wolf’s words to Wolf’s Record.
4. Summary. Possible favorable explanation of missing posting.
1. Introduction. Claim of Wolf to be defending the Charles River.
Saturday morning, January 12, 2008, I checked out the Cambridge Chronicle's website at the suggestion of Roy Bercaw. I found a report on an email from Alice Wolf to reporter Erin Smith in which Wolf was claiming that she was getting aggressive in defending the Charles. I filed a response to Representative Wolf. An hour or so later, I checked the Chronicle on line and I was able to find the exchange.
An hour or so after that, I checked it again. At that point, I could not find the exchange, and as of the end of the day, I still could now find the exchange. If anybody reading this report can find the exchange on the Cambridge Chronicle website, I would be very pleased to modify this report accordingly.
2. Reconstruction of my Post. I strongly disagreed.
A. Wolf’s Current Record, Ongoing and Continuing Environmental Destruction at Magazine Beach.
Wolf was claiming that she was getting aggressive in defending the Charles.
I responded that, if Representative Wolf were meaningfully concerned about people destroying the Charles River, she should look in the mirror.
Wolf clearly supports the pending project at Magazine Beach to destroy the GREEN playing fields there and replace the GREEN playing fields with phosphate / poison supported playing fields.
Wolf clearly supported Phase 1 of this outrage commencing in September 2004, in which all wetlands at Magazine Beach, all the protective vegetation at the Magazine Beach playing fields and all the animal habitat at the playing fields were destroyed. The Charles River White Geese commenced to be starved.
Wolf's friends in the Department of Conservation and Recreation had spent four years denying any intent to harm the Charles River White Geese. Wolf's friends say that they, with Wolf's clear blessing, are not harming the geese, they are only starving them.
Wolf's supports this heartless and destructive behavior.
Wolf rather clearly supported and may have participated in a swim-in the following September (not certain of the month) by a bunch of non-profits (at least one with major developer contributors). This swim-in occurred at Magazine Beach and was a well organized photo opportunity. The people in the photo-op bragged that phase 1 would improve swimming in the Charles River.
Phase 1 replaced meaningful environmental entities with a wall of bizarre designer bushes which prevents access between the Magazine Beach playing fields and the Charles River. As is common with the liars so actively destroying the Charles River, phase 1 did exactly the oppositte of "improv[ing] swimming on the Charles River."
These bizarre designer bushes were claimed to be native. These bizarre bushes proved the word "native" false by repeatedly dying.
B. Related outrage – poisoning the Charles River.
The soon to come furtherance of outrage at Magazine Beach by destroying its GREEN character and introducing poisons is not the first such action by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The last such action was at Ebersol Fields on the Boston side of the Charles River near Mass. General Hospital.
The DCR apparently destroyed a GREEN environment and replaced that GREEN environment with an environment sustained by their beloved poisons. The beloved poisons did not work.
About 18 months ago, the DCR applied Tartan herbicide to Ebersol Fields. Tartan’s label prohibits use of Tartan near bodies of water.
THE NEXT DAY, the Charles River was dead from Boston Harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge. So now, the Cambridge pols, the DCR and Representative Wolf, want to extend the benefits of replacing GREEN environment maintenance with their beloved poisons at Magazine Beach.
So now, Representative Wolf, who supports this outrage, is making noises about looking into entities damaging the Charles River environment.
C. Suggestion for constructive action by Representative Wolf — Resign.
If Alice Wolf is meaningfully concerned about protective the environment of the Charles River, the best thing she can do is resign in favor of somebody who has not been involved in the environmental lies keyed on the Charles River.
3. Explanation of terms. I used the word "lie." It is well intended.
A. Councilor’s Seidel’s Analysis.
I think Councilor Siedel did the best job imaginable of condemning Cambridge Pols as a bunch of liars on environmental matters in the article he published in the Alewife newspaper which is published elsewhere in these reports. There is a link at the top of the blog page. The URL is http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2007_05_29_archive.html.
Siedel, in the Cambridge pol manner, bragged about using words which conveyed the opposite of reality.
Basically Siedel brags that the Cambridge pols have their own SECRET definition of environmentalism. Seidel sniffs that this editor is out of touch when this editor keeps on using the English language definition of environmentalism.
My interpretation of Siedel is that he is accurately branding the Cambridge Pols as a bunch of liars. You do not use secret definitions which exactly reverse the meaning of the words you are using and be anything other than a liar.
B. Comparison of Wolf’s words to Wolf’s Record.
Wolf has been and continues to be on the wrong side of the reprehensible environmental destruction at Magazine Beach. Now she claims to be looking into and trying to prevent damage to the Charles.
The two are mutually inconsistent.
4. Summary. Possible favorable explanation of missing posting.
The Cambridge Chronicle seems to be behaving in a responsible manner in general.
That puts the Cambridge Chronicle at variance with the Cambridge pols.
I hope the Cambridge Chronicle uses this occurrence to provide meaningful reporting on the outrage going on on the Charles River including the participation / willful lack of knowledge of Representative Wolf.
Wolf’s attempt to claim sainthood is very clearly inappropriate.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Response to recent publicity about the White Geese
Friends of the White Geese Co-chairs Robert J. La Trémouille and Marilyn Wellons sent the following letter to the Editor of Bostonia, the Boston University alumni magazine. Bostonia's Fall, 2007 issue published an article about the White Geese.
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To the Editor:
There may be no such thing as bad publicity. However, your recent article on the Charles River White Geese asserts the geese can't fend for themselves in their habitat. This misstatement is not only false but extremely dangerous for the animals and their friends.
For more than 20 years the White Geese did fend for themselves on the river. With waterproof down jackets, acres of meadows for food, an increasingly clean river, and the love of thousands of residents and visitors, they were safe, healthy, and a source of delight and education for their human friends. They enjoyed our contributions of food as much as we enjoyed giving them, but our contributions only supplemented what they independently got from their habitat.
Before September 2004 we had no idea how supplementary our feeding was. That month the DCR-Cambridge "restoration" prevented the geese from going ashore to feed at Magazine Beach. (The fields there have grasses and other plants, including polygonum, a wetland-defining member of the buckwheat family that is an important source of food for waterfowl.) The White Geese were frantic, because they fed here—quite on their own—all day long.
Since then it has been impossible or extremely dangerous for them to feed at Magazine Beach. They have essentially been confined to their nesting area, now their ghetto. This accords with the DCR-Cambridge policy of eliminating them from the river by whatever means necessary. If that includes starvation, too bad for the geese.
A heroic group of people, including the ones featured in your article, have kept the geese from that fate. The geese’s need for such help now is not proof they have always needed it or always will. They undeniably fended for themselves until the DCR and Cambridge deliberately denied them access to food. (This followed the DCR's deliberate destruction of the nesting habitat, using Boston University as its agent, in 1999.)
Saying the geese can't survive in their entire habitat will also allow the DCR and Cambridge to claim the geese shouldn't be there—that they're pets or farm animals, not natives—and should be removed (read: destroyed). This has in fact been the agency's line since 1998, as indicated in a memo Friends of the White Geese obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and in subsequent DCR-Cambridge actions.
Will ignorance of this history condemn us to repeat what followed from that memo?
• In 2000, the MSPCA, working with the DCR and then-State Rep. Barrios, offered "humane measures" to deal with the 1998 memo’s fabricated problems with the geese. When Friends of the White Geese proposed "humane measures" for Rep. Barrios, he claimed we wanted to assassinate him.
• In 2001, the MSPCA, still working with the DCR, again offered "humane treatment" at its happy farm in Methuen to save the geese from DCR-instigated violence. Three people, including an MSPCA employee, independently told [us] the animals would be destroyed there.
• Since 2000, the DCR has claimed it doesn’t intend to harm the geese. Since the starvation began in September, 2004, the DCR has announced that starving the geese is not harming them.
If Boston University, once again the DCR's agent, tells us the White Geese—Charles River natives for 25 generations—aren’t fit to live on the river, what's up? Can we expect another offer of "humane treatment"? DCR "No-Feeding" signs in Cambridge like in Boston and arrests of people who do feed them? More vilification of a "non-native species," more violence?
There’s a simple remedy for the geese's current plight. Restore them to their entire habitat. Recognize it as habitat, the wildlife sanctuary it is. Recognize the White Geese as the treasure they are: sources of delight and knowledge of the natural world, symbols of Cambridge, Boston, the Charles River, and even Boston University, and a sentinel species that warns us of threats to their, and our, habitat here.
With this recognition of the status quo before the DCR, Cambridge, and Boston University began their attacks on them, the Charles River White Geese would be fine.
******
To the Editor:
There may be no such thing as bad publicity. However, your recent article on the Charles River White Geese asserts the geese can't fend for themselves in their habitat. This misstatement is not only false but extremely dangerous for the animals and their friends.
For more than 20 years the White Geese did fend for themselves on the river. With waterproof down jackets, acres of meadows for food, an increasingly clean river, and the love of thousands of residents and visitors, they were safe, healthy, and a source of delight and education for their human friends. They enjoyed our contributions of food as much as we enjoyed giving them, but our contributions only supplemented what they independently got from their habitat.
Before September 2004 we had no idea how supplementary our feeding was. That month the DCR-Cambridge "restoration" prevented the geese from going ashore to feed at Magazine Beach. (The fields there have grasses and other plants, including polygonum, a wetland-defining member of the buckwheat family that is an important source of food for waterfowl.) The White Geese were frantic, because they fed here—quite on their own—all day long.
Since then it has been impossible or extremely dangerous for them to feed at Magazine Beach. They have essentially been confined to their nesting area, now their ghetto. This accords with the DCR-Cambridge policy of eliminating them from the river by whatever means necessary. If that includes starvation, too bad for the geese.
A heroic group of people, including the ones featured in your article, have kept the geese from that fate. The geese’s need for such help now is not proof they have always needed it or always will. They undeniably fended for themselves until the DCR and Cambridge deliberately denied them access to food. (This followed the DCR's deliberate destruction of the nesting habitat, using Boston University as its agent, in 1999.)
Saying the geese can't survive in their entire habitat will also allow the DCR and Cambridge to claim the geese shouldn't be there—that they're pets or farm animals, not natives—and should be removed (read: destroyed). This has in fact been the agency's line since 1998, as indicated in a memo Friends of the White Geese obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and in subsequent DCR-Cambridge actions.
Will ignorance of this history condemn us to repeat what followed from that memo?
• In 2000, the MSPCA, working with the DCR and then-State Rep. Barrios, offered "humane measures" to deal with the 1998 memo’s fabricated problems with the geese. When Friends of the White Geese proposed "humane measures" for Rep. Barrios, he claimed we wanted to assassinate him.
• In 2001, the MSPCA, still working with the DCR, again offered "humane treatment" at its happy farm in Methuen to save the geese from DCR-instigated violence. Three people, including an MSPCA employee, independently told [us] the animals would be destroyed there.
• Since 2000, the DCR has claimed it doesn’t intend to harm the geese. Since the starvation began in September, 2004, the DCR has announced that starving the geese is not harming them.
If Boston University, once again the DCR's agent, tells us the White Geese—Charles River natives for 25 generations—aren’t fit to live on the river, what's up? Can we expect another offer of "humane treatment"? DCR "No-Feeding" signs in Cambridge like in Boston and arrests of people who do feed them? More vilification of a "non-native species," more violence?
There’s a simple remedy for the geese's current plight. Restore them to their entire habitat. Recognize it as habitat, the wildlife sanctuary it is. Recognize the White Geese as the treasure they are: sources of delight and knowledge of the natural world, symbols of Cambridge, Boston, the Charles River, and even Boston University, and a sentinel species that warns us of threats to their, and our, habitat here.
With this recognition of the status quo before the DCR, Cambridge, and Boston University began their attacks on them, the Charles River White Geese would be fine.
Developer type claims to have lost 30 acres of wasteland which existed for up to 30 years in Cambridgeport.
Bob La Trémouille reports.
1. General.
2. Bad Guy, November 19, 2007.
3. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
4. Bad Guy, November 15, 2007.
5. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
6. Allston Community Development Corporation, November 15, 2007.
1. General.
Folks,
The following exchange started on the Cambridgeport listserve and continued.
It has reached the point of typical absurdity when dealing on development matters.
This is a typical tactic from the development lobby. Wear down the good guy with bizarre detail. To respect such demands belittles the statement of the good guy.
In this case, I compared Harvard's landbanking at the Shaw's on Western Avenue in Allston to the highly destructive landbanking which MIT did in Cambridgeport starting in about 1968 with the purchase of the Simplex properties.
MIT created a grassy expanse which reached 30 acres in the middle of one of the most densely developed cities in the United States.
This wasteland destroyed the viability of Central Square in Cambridge by destroying hundreds if not thousands of jobs and the money those people would spend in Central Square.
The wasteland was a blight on Cambridge starting with the eastern side of Brookline Street and extending blocks over to and behind what was then the NECCO factory at Albany and Mass. Ave.
The remnants on Brookline Street are blocks of construction from the 90's to 00's where for decades there was nothing but grass.
So the bad guy wants me to spell out to the bad guy where this 30 acre wasteland was for a period of up to 30 years in this neighborhood.
This sort of question from an outsider makes excellent sense.
This sort of question from somebody who knows Cambridge is an insult. You do not lose 30 acres of wasteland in one of the country's most densely developed cities.
The following exchange followed based on my analysis.
You may read from the bottom if you wish or just start with the nonsense.
Thank you.
2. Bad Guy, November 19, 2007.
[censored to protect the guilty] wrote:
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:36:23 -0500
From: [censored to protect the guilty]
To: "Bob LaTrémouille"
Subject: Re: [cportneighbors] Governor Patrick Coming to Affordable Housing in Near Part of Allston Tomorrow
I am not telling you anything, rather I am asking you a question to which your reply was not responsive. Addresses on Brookline or "I don't know" would be examples of responsive answers. If you want to provide additional history or links beyond the answer to my specific question, that's fine by me.
3. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
On 11/15/07, Bob LaTrémouille wrote:
Golley Gee, I guess we are now being told that
(1) the 70's, 80's and 90's did not happen and
(2) Central Square was not destroyed by the landbanking in Cambridgeport by MIT, and
(3) there was never a wasteland of many, many acres east of Brookline Street.
I am afraid I have always lived in reality and we did live in reality during that outrage.
4. Bad Guy, November 15, 2007.
[censored to protect the guilty] wrote:
Do you know which of the buildings on Brookline St. are part of the MIT landbank, and if there are plans floating out there somewhere for what MIT is going to do with its land in the future?
5. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
On 11/15/07, Bob LaTrémouille wrote [to the Cambridgeport listserve]:
For your information.
These units are off Everett Street in Allston between the Mass. Pike and North Beacon Street. A lot is going on in this part of Allston which impacts Riverside and Cambridgeport.
Everett Street is the major street which crosses Western Avenue just before the Shaw's Shopping Center.
You will recall that Harvard's landbanking has turned the Shaw's Shopping Center into a ghost town worthy of MIT's landbanking in Cambridgeport. Harvard is trying and apparently succeeding in forcing affordable housing tenants from the project at North Harvard and Western to the Shaw's shopping center as part of Harvard's expansion in Allston.
The project where the governor is coming is three to four blocks south of the Shaw's site.
The project where the governor is coming is quite close to Union Square, Allston.
Additionally, many people are interested in affordable housing and could be in this nearby townhouse type of construction.
6. Allston Community Development Corporation, November 15, 2007.
Bob Van Meter < vanmeter@allstonbrightoncdc.org> wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:01:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Bob Van Meter < vanmeter@allstonbrightoncdc.org>
To: boblat@yahoo.com
Subject: Governor Patrick Coming to the Brian J. Honan Apartments Tomorrow
Governor Patrick Coming Tomorrow to the Brian J. Honan Apartments
Please join Governor Patrick and Mayor Menino, Rep. Kevin Honan and the Allston Brighton CDC at the Brian J. Honan apartments at 33 Everett Street in Allston tomorrow, Friday November 16, at 11 AM. Governor Patrick has chosen the site for the release of his Affordable Housing Bond Bill.
The Brian J. Honan apartments are 50 units of affordable rental housing for families, developed and owned by the Allston Brighton CDC. The housing was named in honor of the late Allston Brighton City Councilor Brian J. Honan who was instrumental in securing the site for the homes that now bear his name.
The Brian J. Honan Apartments were made possible by a unique partnership including suppport from the City of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Harvard University, the Home Funders Collaborative, Massachusetts Housing Partnership, Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation, Bank of America, the Massachusetts Life Insurance Community Investment Initiative , Mass Development, Boston Community Capital and the Renewable Energy Trust of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Allston Brighton CDC
320 Washington Street
Brighton, Massachusetts 02135
617-787-3874
info@allstonbrightoncdc.org
www.allstonbrightoncdc.org
[They had some lovely graphics which got lost]
1. General.
2. Bad Guy, November 19, 2007.
3. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
4. Bad Guy, November 15, 2007.
5. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
6. Allston Community Development Corporation, November 15, 2007.
1. General.
Folks,
The following exchange started on the Cambridgeport listserve and continued.
It has reached the point of typical absurdity when dealing on development matters.
This is a typical tactic from the development lobby. Wear down the good guy with bizarre detail. To respect such demands belittles the statement of the good guy.
In this case, I compared Harvard's landbanking at the Shaw's on Western Avenue in Allston to the highly destructive landbanking which MIT did in Cambridgeport starting in about 1968 with the purchase of the Simplex properties.
MIT created a grassy expanse which reached 30 acres in the middle of one of the most densely developed cities in the United States.
This wasteland destroyed the viability of Central Square in Cambridge by destroying hundreds if not thousands of jobs and the money those people would spend in Central Square.
The wasteland was a blight on Cambridge starting with the eastern side of Brookline Street and extending blocks over to and behind what was then the NECCO factory at Albany and Mass. Ave.
The remnants on Brookline Street are blocks of construction from the 90's to 00's where for decades there was nothing but grass.
So the bad guy wants me to spell out to the bad guy where this 30 acre wasteland was for a period of up to 30 years in this neighborhood.
This sort of question from an outsider makes excellent sense.
This sort of question from somebody who knows Cambridge is an insult. You do not lose 30 acres of wasteland in one of the country's most densely developed cities.
The following exchange followed based on my analysis.
You may read from the bottom if you wish or just start with the nonsense.
Thank you.
2. Bad Guy, November 19, 2007.
[censored to protect the guilty] wrote:
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:36:23 -0500
From: [censored to protect the guilty]
To: "Bob LaTrémouille"
Subject: Re: [cportneighbors] Governor Patrick Coming to Affordable Housing in Near Part of Allston Tomorrow
I am not telling you anything, rather I am asking you a question to which your reply was not responsive. Addresses on Brookline or "I don't know" would be examples of responsive answers. If you want to provide additional history or links beyond the answer to my specific question, that's fine by me.
3. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
On 11/15/07, Bob LaTrémouille
Golley Gee, I guess we are now being told that
(1) the 70's, 80's and 90's did not happen and
(2) Central Square was not destroyed by the landbanking in Cambridgeport by MIT, and
(3) there was never a wasteland of many, many acres east of Brookline Street.
I am afraid I have always lived in reality and we did live in reality during that outrage.
4. Bad Guy, November 15, 2007.
[censored to protect the guilty] wrote:
Do you know which of the buildings on Brookline St. are part of the MIT landbank, and if there are plans floating out there somewhere for what MIT is going to do with its land in the future?
5. Your editor, November 15, 2007.
On 11/15/07, Bob LaTrémouille
For your information.
These units are off Everett Street in Allston between the Mass. Pike and North Beacon Street. A lot is going on in this part of Allston which impacts Riverside and Cambridgeport.
Everett Street is the major street which crosses Western Avenue just before the Shaw's Shopping Center.
You will recall that Harvard's landbanking has turned the Shaw's Shopping Center into a ghost town worthy of MIT's landbanking in Cambridgeport. Harvard is trying and apparently succeeding in forcing affordable housing tenants from the project at North Harvard and Western to the Shaw's shopping center as part of Harvard's expansion in Allston.
The project where the governor is coming is three to four blocks south of the Shaw's site.
The project where the governor is coming is quite close to Union Square, Allston.
Additionally, many people are interested in affordable housing and could be in this nearby townhouse type of construction.
6. Allston Community Development Corporation, November 15, 2007.
Bob Van Meter < vanmeter@allstonbrightoncdc.org> wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:01:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Bob Van Meter < vanmeter@allstonbrightoncdc.org>
To: boblat@yahoo.com
Subject: Governor Patrick Coming to the Brian J. Honan Apartments Tomorrow
Governor Patrick Coming Tomorrow to the Brian J. Honan Apartments
Please join Governor Patrick and Mayor Menino, Rep. Kevin Honan and the Allston Brighton CDC at the Brian J. Honan apartments at 33 Everett Street in Allston tomorrow, Friday November 16, at 11 AM. Governor Patrick has chosen the site for the release of his Affordable Housing Bond Bill.
The Brian J. Honan apartments are 50 units of affordable rental housing for families, developed and owned by the Allston Brighton CDC. The housing was named in honor of the late Allston Brighton City Councilor Brian J. Honan who was instrumental in securing the site for the homes that now bear his name.
The Brian J. Honan Apartments were made possible by a unique partnership including suppport from the City of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Harvard University, the Home Funders Collaborative, Massachusetts Housing Partnership, Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation, Bank of America, the Massachusetts Life Insurance Community Investment Initiative , Mass Development, Boston Community Capital and the Renewable Energy Trust of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Allston Brighton CDC
320 Washington Street
Brighton, Massachusetts 02135
617-787-3874
info@allstonbrightoncdc.org
www.allstonbrightoncdc.org
[They had some lovely graphics which got lost]
Friday, November 09, 2007
Newly Elected Cambridge City Councilor in Context
Progressive Government in Cambridge Takes Yet Another Step Backwards
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. General Analysis.
2. Specific current issues.
A. Civil rights and the right of the handicapped, Kathy Podgers in context.
B. Environmentalism.
C. Election law.
D. Development issues.
3. Comparison to the Walsh law firm.
A. General.
B. The Boston Globe series and the Worcester bankruptcy records.
4. Summary.
5. Disclaimer.
1. General Analysis.
Samuel Seidel was elected to the Cambridge City Council on Tuesday.
This gives the really destructive fake progressive clique, the Cambridge pols, an outrageous 6 to 3 margin. The other 3 are most definitely not good guys. They just do not care and go along with the destructive group.
To give you a feel for just how destructive Seidel is, please look at the following analysis from this blog, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2007_05_29_archive.html. In this report, Seidel brags about that he and the rest of the Cambridge pols have a secret definition of "environmentalism." The secret definition of "environmentalism" by the Cambridge pols is highly destructive of the environment.
2. Specific current issues.
A. Civil rights and the right of the handicapped, Kathy Podgers in context.
The sort of treatment Kathy Podgers got by people who almost certainly are owned by the Cambridge pols group is just one part of the tactics of the Cambridge pols.
Kathy Podgers has the nerve to expect the City of Cambridge to respect her Civil Rights as a Person With Disabilities under federal law.
The City of Cambridge contends that the City of Cambridge has its own civil rights laws. The City of Cambridge's law does not protect people like Kathy. The City of Cambridge says that their civil rights and disabilities laws are good enough. How dare anybody expect them to respect Federal civil rights and disabilities laws.
Strange, the Cambridge position sounds a lot like the Jim Crow south.
No wonder the friends of the Cambridge pols are running around making personal attacks against Kathy. There is nothing which offends these people more than somebody who meaningfully stands for causes they are lying about.
B. Environmentalism.
Environmentalism is just the most blatantly vile behavior of these people.
Civil rights is another area in which the Cambridge pols have contempt for decency. Their position has the stench of 50's Jim Crow: they have their civil rights laws; how dare anybody expect the Cambridge pols to obey Federal civil rights laws.
C. Election law.
When I first ran for Cambridge City Councilor four years ago, the Cambridge Election Commission tossed out 51 of 100 nominating signatures. 100 signatures is the maximum which can be submitted. 50 is the absolute minimum to get on the ballot.
The 51 were tossed out because the Cambridge Election Commission refuses to obey the 1998 Jack E. Robinson ballot law case. There is nothing complicated about it. The Cambridge Election Commission simply refuses to obey the 1998 Jack E. Robinson election law case. And the 1998 Jack E. Robinson election law case is very clearly controlling. BY VOTE OF AN ELECTION COMMISSION STACKED WITH LAWYERS WHO CLAIM TO BE PROGRESSIVE.
The most illuminating explanation I ever got for the trashing of those 51 signatures in spite of the very clearly applicable Jack E. Robinson ballot law case was "That is the way things are done in Cambridge."
"That is the way things are done in Cambridge" has the stench of 1950's Jim Crow.
"That is the way things are done in Cambridge" has a very clear stench of lawlessness for which many governments in this country have been roundly held in contempt.
"That is the way things are done in Cambridge" exactly fits the current Cambridge city government.
D. Development issues.
Development issues, of course, are a web of lies.
Reality is that the Cambridge pols are living a lie.
There is a very definite and very strong stench about Cambridge City Government.
3. Comparison to the Walsh law firm.
A. General.
The last time I smelled such a stench was when I tried to do legal business with Cambridge's Walsh law firm in the mid to late 80's.
Bill Walsh was, politically, a very good friend, a person whom I respected politically in spite of major political disagreement on one specific issue (in sharp contrast to the current situation), but the Walsh law office had that stench about it when I did legal business with it.
A number of members of that law office went to jail in the early 90's because of lack of respect for laws which people go to jail for violating.
B. The Boston Globe series and the Worcester bankruptcy records.
The Globe did a three part series on the Walsh law office as the case was unfolding. The Globe documented legally questionable maneuverings in specific, limited parts of the state in the first and third parts of the series (Friday and Sunday). They did an excellent job. They provided an incredible amount of detail.
The middle part expanded on the analysis of the problem by providing related instances in other parts of the state, not the massive detail, but very clear facts expanding the analysis.
The middle part was based on a bankruptcy filing in Worcester by a person who never lived more than two blocks or so from Porter Square in Cambridge.
I had been checking out Boston Land Court records concerning the Walsh matter and another person related to Walsh when I was led to the individual who filed this bankruptcy. When I realized he had filed in Worcester, all sorts of bells went off.
The bankruptcy petition said one thing originally. The bankruptcy petition was amended AFTER the Walsh indictment to add the things which were the middle report in the Boston Globe series.
The amendments related to the Walsh indictment. The amendments related to matters for which Walsh was indicted. The "failure" to include these items in the original filing combined with the addition after the indictment said to me that the filer considered the indictment directly related to the filer's "bankruptcy estate." The preceding sentence should be considered an understatement.
When I saw what was in in those amendments after the Walsh indictment, my response disrupted a very quiet courthouse.
4. Summary.
Mr. Seidel by his incredible position on the definition of environmentalism and by his Conservation Commission actions has gone on record as part of the current stench.
5. Disclaimer.
In no way should my current analysis be interpreted as saying that I have legal grounds to think there are valid grounds for anybody currently in Cambridge city government to go to jail.
The reality was that, when I was trying to do legal business with the Walsh law firm in the mid to late 1980's, I saw the same contempt for law and contempt for reality which I see in the current Cambridge city government.
In the Walsh law firm of the 80's as now, I did not see any reason why people should go to jail. In the Walsh law firm of the 80's as now, I just saw contempt for law and for reality.
I see contempt for law and for reality in Cambridge city government now. I saw contempt for law and for reality in the Walsh law firm in the 80's.
The current problem is most definitely much larger than one person added to the Cambridge City Council. The current problem is most definitely much larger than six people plus three on the Cambridge City Council.
The current problem is a package which stinks to high heaven and there are a very large number of people involved.
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. General Analysis.
2. Specific current issues.
A. Civil rights and the right of the handicapped, Kathy Podgers in context.
B. Environmentalism.
C. Election law.
D. Development issues.
3. Comparison to the Walsh law firm.
A. General.
B. The Boston Globe series and the Worcester bankruptcy records.
4. Summary.
5. Disclaimer.
1. General Analysis.
Samuel Seidel was elected to the Cambridge City Council on Tuesday.
This gives the really destructive fake progressive clique, the Cambridge pols, an outrageous 6 to 3 margin. The other 3 are most definitely not good guys. They just do not care and go along with the destructive group.
To give you a feel for just how destructive Seidel is, please look at the following analysis from this blog, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2007_05_29_archive.html. In this report, Seidel brags about that he and the rest of the Cambridge pols have a secret definition of "environmentalism." The secret definition of "environmentalism" by the Cambridge pols is highly destructive of the environment.
2. Specific current issues.
A. Civil rights and the right of the handicapped, Kathy Podgers in context.
The sort of treatment Kathy Podgers got by people who almost certainly are owned by the Cambridge pols group is just one part of the tactics of the Cambridge pols.
Kathy Podgers has the nerve to expect the City of Cambridge to respect her Civil Rights as a Person With Disabilities under federal law.
The City of Cambridge contends that the City of Cambridge has its own civil rights laws. The City of Cambridge's law does not protect people like Kathy. The City of Cambridge says that their civil rights and disabilities laws are good enough. How dare anybody expect them to respect Federal civil rights and disabilities laws.
Strange, the Cambridge position sounds a lot like the Jim Crow south.
No wonder the friends of the Cambridge pols are running around making personal attacks against Kathy. There is nothing which offends these people more than somebody who meaningfully stands for causes they are lying about.
B. Environmentalism.
Environmentalism is just the most blatantly vile behavior of these people.
Civil rights is another area in which the Cambridge pols have contempt for decency. Their position has the stench of 50's Jim Crow: they have their civil rights laws; how dare anybody expect the Cambridge pols to obey Federal civil rights laws.
C. Election law.
When I first ran for Cambridge City Councilor four years ago, the Cambridge Election Commission tossed out 51 of 100 nominating signatures. 100 signatures is the maximum which can be submitted. 50 is the absolute minimum to get on the ballot.
The 51 were tossed out because the Cambridge Election Commission refuses to obey the 1998 Jack E. Robinson ballot law case. There is nothing complicated about it. The Cambridge Election Commission simply refuses to obey the 1998 Jack E. Robinson election law case. And the 1998 Jack E. Robinson election law case is very clearly controlling. BY VOTE OF AN ELECTION COMMISSION STACKED WITH LAWYERS WHO CLAIM TO BE PROGRESSIVE.
The most illuminating explanation I ever got for the trashing of those 51 signatures in spite of the very clearly applicable Jack E. Robinson ballot law case was "That is the way things are done in Cambridge."
"That is the way things are done in Cambridge" has the stench of 1950's Jim Crow.
"That is the way things are done in Cambridge" has a very clear stench of lawlessness for which many governments in this country have been roundly held in contempt.
"That is the way things are done in Cambridge" exactly fits the current Cambridge city government.
D. Development issues.
Development issues, of course, are a web of lies.
Reality is that the Cambridge pols are living a lie.
There is a very definite and very strong stench about Cambridge City Government.
3. Comparison to the Walsh law firm.
A. General.
The last time I smelled such a stench was when I tried to do legal business with Cambridge's Walsh law firm in the mid to late 80's.
Bill Walsh was, politically, a very good friend, a person whom I respected politically in spite of major political disagreement on one specific issue (in sharp contrast to the current situation), but the Walsh law office had that stench about it when I did legal business with it.
A number of members of that law office went to jail in the early 90's because of lack of respect for laws which people go to jail for violating.
B. The Boston Globe series and the Worcester bankruptcy records.
The Globe did a three part series on the Walsh law office as the case was unfolding. The Globe documented legally questionable maneuverings in specific, limited parts of the state in the first and third parts of the series (Friday and Sunday). They did an excellent job. They provided an incredible amount of detail.
The middle part expanded on the analysis of the problem by providing related instances in other parts of the state, not the massive detail, but very clear facts expanding the analysis.
The middle part was based on a bankruptcy filing in Worcester by a person who never lived more than two blocks or so from Porter Square in Cambridge.
I had been checking out Boston Land Court records concerning the Walsh matter and another person related to Walsh when I was led to the individual who filed this bankruptcy. When I realized he had filed in Worcester, all sorts of bells went off.
The bankruptcy petition said one thing originally. The bankruptcy petition was amended AFTER the Walsh indictment to add the things which were the middle report in the Boston Globe series.
The amendments related to the Walsh indictment. The amendments related to matters for which Walsh was indicted. The "failure" to include these items in the original filing combined with the addition after the indictment said to me that the filer considered the indictment directly related to the filer's "bankruptcy estate." The preceding sentence should be considered an understatement.
When I saw what was in in those amendments after the Walsh indictment, my response disrupted a very quiet courthouse.
4. Summary.
Mr. Seidel by his incredible position on the definition of environmentalism and by his Conservation Commission actions has gone on record as part of the current stench.
5. Disclaimer.
In no way should my current analysis be interpreted as saying that I have legal grounds to think there are valid grounds for anybody currently in Cambridge city government to go to jail.
The reality was that, when I was trying to do legal business with the Walsh law firm in the mid to late 1980's, I saw the same contempt for law and contempt for reality which I see in the current Cambridge city government.
In the Walsh law firm of the 80's as now, I did not see any reason why people should go to jail. In the Walsh law firm of the 80's as now, I just saw contempt for law and for reality.
I see contempt for law and for reality in Cambridge city government now. I saw contempt for law and for reality in the Walsh law firm in the 80's.
The current problem is most definitely much larger than one person added to the Cambridge City Council. The current problem is most definitely much larger than six people plus three on the Cambridge City Council.
The current problem is a package which stinks to high heaven and there are a very large number of people involved.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Rumor campaign against Kathy Podgers
Friends of a friend who saw City Council candidate Kathy Podgers on Sunday's CCTV debate called her to say they were impressed. Kathy was solid on the issues, thoughtful, and she didn't seem like a "nut case."
Where could they have gotten the idea she was a "nut case"?
This is the rumor the bad guys have been spreading about Kathy.
It repeats the slander against her at the Cambridge City Council meeting a year ago when city officials mocked, threatened, and publicly humiliated her to try to silence her and get her out of the Council chamber.
They violated her civil rights to attend and participate in the Council meeting as a person with a physical disability accompanied by her service animal. The Mass. Commission Against Discrimination found "Probable Cause" to believe city officials (including two candidates for re-election) discriminated against her as she said. The persons named in Kathy's complaint are encouraged to resolve the problem before a public hearing set for December 12.
In attempting to dismiss Kathy as a "nut case," anyone spreading this rumor simply confirms his or her own bias against persons with disabilities. Would a rumor using the "N word" about a candidate spread without revealing the rumor-mongers as bigots?
On the one hand we read that mental illness is a true disability, that its sufferers have a right to respect and dignity. On the other we have people right here in Cambridge using the designation to indicate a person can be ignored or abused with impunity. Whether they apply this or other derogatory terms to a person with mental illness or a person with a physical disability, like Kathy, it is bigotry, and it plays to bigotry.
Who, and what, is sick here?
Marilyn Wellons
Where could they have gotten the idea she was a "nut case"?
This is the rumor the bad guys have been spreading about Kathy.
It repeats the slander against her at the Cambridge City Council meeting a year ago when city officials mocked, threatened, and publicly humiliated her to try to silence her and get her out of the Council chamber.
They violated her civil rights to attend and participate in the Council meeting as a person with a physical disability accompanied by her service animal. The Mass. Commission Against Discrimination found "Probable Cause" to believe city officials (including two candidates for re-election) discriminated against her as she said. The persons named in Kathy's complaint are encouraged to resolve the problem before a public hearing set for December 12.
In attempting to dismiss Kathy as a "nut case," anyone spreading this rumor simply confirms his or her own bias against persons with disabilities. Would a rumor using the "N word" about a candidate spread without revealing the rumor-mongers as bigots?
On the one hand we read that mental illness is a true disability, that its sufferers have a right to respect and dignity. On the other we have people right here in Cambridge using the designation to indicate a person can be ignored or abused with impunity. Whether they apply this or other derogatory terms to a person with mental illness or a person with a physical disability, like Kathy, it is bigotry, and it plays to bigotry.
Who, and what, is sick here?
Marilyn Wellons
Cambridge Pol Advertises for Election Help, Withdraws Ad
Bob La Trémouille reports:
1. Ad on Craigslist.
2. Responses.
3. Counterad.
4. Ad pulled.
1. Ad on Craigslist.
The following ad appeared on Craigslist on November 2, 2007 with regard to Cambridge, MA:
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Progressive candidate for city council is looking for last minute help Monday
and Tuesday. The campaign is very tight and we are looking for the final push to
take us over the top.
Are you a leader? Put together a team and we will pay you more!
Support Workers' Rights! Make Housing Affordable! End the War!
2. Responses.
I distributed a copy of the ad to perhaps a hundred of my closest friends.
One suggested that it sounded like Decker or Seidel.
3. Counterad.
I posted the following counterad on Sunday, November 5. The PPS was added after the suggestion that it could be Decker or Seidel.
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Work for a “Progressive” Cambridge City Councilor?
A recent posting sought workers for a “progressive” Cambridge City Councilor.
There is no such thing.
A recent MCAD ruling found probable cause of discrimination in the City Council’s attempt to keep a handicapped woman in her 60’s from using her guide dog in a city council meeting. Cambridge is appealing.
Cambridge seems to claim that Cambridge has a right to ignore federal civil rights of the handicapped because Cambridge has their own civil rights laws which do not protect this woman’s dog. They want to obey their less protective laws, not the fed’s more protective laws. Sounds like state’s rights in the Jim Crow south, but this is worse. Cambridge may think it is a People’s Republik, but it is not even a state.
The City of Cambridge is in the process of destroying hundreds if not thousands of healthy trees at Fresh Pond. Cambridge has no problem with the state Department of Recreation and Development’s plans to destroy 449 to 660 trees on Memorial Drive between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge including every cherry tree. Cambridge routinely destroys healthy trees as part of its projects.
Cambridge and the DCR destroyed the wetlands and animal habitat at Magazine Beach to put in designer bushes which kept dying.
The feds have prohibited more phosphate addition to the Charles. Cambridge and the DCR are digging up seven acres of dirt at Magazine Beach to replace it with seven acres of dirt and phosphates.
Cambridge’s buddies at the DCR spent four years denying their plans would harm the 25 year resident gaggle of Charles River White Geese. They then explained that starving them is not harming them.
Their buddies did a similar project at Ebersol Fields near Mass. General last year. The Phosphates did not work, so they added Tartan. The next day, the Charles River was dead with algae from the harbor to Mass. Ave.
A young woman was raped and murdered near the BU Bridge apparently by a guy who graduated from killing mother geese on their nests. The DCR and Cambridge were belligerently neutral on the goose killings. Then Cambridge’s city council spent more than an hour discussing the rape and murder but DID NOT WANT TO KNOW where she was raped and murdered.
Will Cambridge and the DCR obey the feds on phosphates? Cambridge considers its rules more important than the fed’s when it comes to Cambridge abusing the handicapped.
PS: The guide dog was attacked by a pit bull belonging to a Cambridge cop in the lobby of the Cambridge police station. No negative comment by Cambridge city council and no known punishment of the cop.
PPS: I just reread the posting and realize that this could be a non-incumbent. One non-incumbent has previously posted on Craigslist and claims to be progressive.
He is a member of the Cambridge Conservation Commission who, I believe, has been on the scene since after the rape and murder. His hand are filthy with the environmental destruction after that.
He has publicly defended Cambridge pols’ environmental destructiveness claiming that they have a “better” definition of environmentalism.
Sounds roughly like the claim of the City Council to defend their barring the guide dog, and their apparent response to the EPA objection to their new phosphates.
Most of us live in reality.
4. Ad pulled.
As of this morning, November 5, when I checked Craigslist, the "progressive" Cambridge City Council candidate seems to have pulled the ad.
1. Ad on Craigslist.
2. Responses.
3. Counterad.
4. Ad pulled.
1. Ad on Craigslist.
The following ad appeared on Craigslist on November 2, 2007 with regard to Cambridge, MA:
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Progressive candidate for city council is looking for last minute help Monday
and Tuesday. The campaign is very tight and we are looking for the final push to
take us over the top.
Are you a leader? Put together a team and we will pay you more!
Support Workers' Rights! Make Housing Affordable! End the War!
2. Responses.
I distributed a copy of the ad to perhaps a hundred of my closest friends.
One suggested that it sounded like Decker or Seidel.
3. Counterad.
I posted the following counterad on Sunday, November 5. The PPS was added after the suggestion that it could be Decker or Seidel.
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Work for a “Progressive” Cambridge City Councilor?
A recent posting sought workers for a “progressive” Cambridge City Councilor.
There is no such thing.
A recent MCAD ruling found probable cause of discrimination in the City Council’s attempt to keep a handicapped woman in her 60’s from using her guide dog in a city council meeting. Cambridge is appealing.
Cambridge seems to claim that Cambridge has a right to ignore federal civil rights of the handicapped because Cambridge has their own civil rights laws which do not protect this woman’s dog. They want to obey their less protective laws, not the fed’s more protective laws. Sounds like state’s rights in the Jim Crow south, but this is worse. Cambridge may think it is a People’s Republik, but it is not even a state.
The City of Cambridge is in the process of destroying hundreds if not thousands of healthy trees at Fresh Pond. Cambridge has no problem with the state Department of Recreation and Development’s plans to destroy 449 to 660 trees on Memorial Drive between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow Bridge including every cherry tree. Cambridge routinely destroys healthy trees as part of its projects.
Cambridge and the DCR destroyed the wetlands and animal habitat at Magazine Beach to put in designer bushes which kept dying.
The feds have prohibited more phosphate addition to the Charles. Cambridge and the DCR are digging up seven acres of dirt at Magazine Beach to replace it with seven acres of dirt and phosphates.
Cambridge’s buddies at the DCR spent four years denying their plans would harm the 25 year resident gaggle of Charles River White Geese. They then explained that starving them is not harming them.
Their buddies did a similar project at Ebersol Fields near Mass. General last year. The Phosphates did not work, so they added Tartan. The next day, the Charles River was dead with algae from the harbor to Mass. Ave.
A young woman was raped and murdered near the BU Bridge apparently by a guy who graduated from killing mother geese on their nests. The DCR and Cambridge were belligerently neutral on the goose killings. Then Cambridge’s city council spent more than an hour discussing the rape and murder but DID NOT WANT TO KNOW where she was raped and murdered.
Will Cambridge and the DCR obey the feds on phosphates? Cambridge considers its rules more important than the fed’s when it comes to Cambridge abusing the handicapped.
PS: The guide dog was attacked by a pit bull belonging to a Cambridge cop in the lobby of the Cambridge police station. No negative comment by Cambridge city council and no known punishment of the cop.
PPS: I just reread the posting and realize that this could be a non-incumbent. One non-incumbent has previously posted on Craigslist and claims to be progressive.
He is a member of the Cambridge Conservation Commission who, I believe, has been on the scene since after the rape and murder. His hand are filthy with the environmental destruction after that.
He has publicly defended Cambridge pols’ environmental destructiveness claiming that they have a “better” definition of environmentalism.
Sounds roughly like the claim of the City Council to defend their barring the guide dog, and their apparent response to the EPA objection to their new phosphates.
Most of us live in reality.
4. Ad pulled.
As of this morning, November 5, when I checked Craigslist, the "progressive" Cambridge City Council candidate seems to have pulled the ad.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Cambridge, MA: A city government with a stench about it
The following was published in the November 1, 2007, Cambridge Chronicle:
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Editor
Cambridge Chronicle
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is to be commended for standing up to Cambridge environmentally reprehensible city government.
The EPA order for no new phosphate sources on the Charles River is a direct prohibition of Phase II of the outrageous Magazine Beach project with its combined animal starvation / poisoning and the poisoning of the Charles River through phosphate runoff.
Without phase II of Cambridge city's project, Magazine Beach is now a “green” place in the best sense of the word, except for the bizarre designer bushes for which wetlands and animal habitat was destroyed along with the usual deliberate animal starvation.
In city whose pols mouth holier than thous almost incessantly including on environmental matters, it should be a foregone conclusion that the EPA order would kill the balance of this reprehensible project.
Regrettably, the Chronicle, in its major fight to review the mayor’s spending has seen the contempt for law which is normal in the City of Cambridge .
Another recent example of Cambridge contempt for law is the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination’s recent finding of probable cause in Cambridge ’s abuse of a guide dog being used by a handicapped person and Cambridge ’s refusal to enforce Federal law protecting that guide dog (I know the fights, not the specific details of the finding). Cambridge , in a position strikingly similar to the Jim Crow south, says that Cambridge ’s civil rights laws are good enough. Cambridge refuses to obey federal civil rights laws which give more civil rights to the handicapped than Cambridge cares to give.
Another example of Cambridge contempt for law was the trashing of 51 nominating petition signatures on this candidate’s election papers (making those papers invalid) a few years ago. Cambridge Election Commission, filled with lawyers, considers itself above the clearly applicable Jack E. Robinson election law decision.
Lawlessness is the norm in the granting of property variances, unless the city, through lying to the public, has trashed the zoning laws sufficiently that variances are no longer necessary.
The contempt for law, the contempt for basic principals of good government and the contempt for basic principals of a good city combine with the holier than thou lies to really create a vile stench about our government.
Keep up the good fight on your part of watching this government in action.
I myself will keep an eye on Magazine Beach and an eye on a whole bunch of Cambridge pols who lie about being pro-environment.
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Editor
Cambridge Chronicle
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is to be commended for standing up to Cambridge environmentally reprehensible city government.
The EPA order for no new phosphate sources on the Charles River is a direct prohibition of Phase II of the outrageous Magazine Beach project with its combined animal starvation / poisoning and the poisoning of the Charles River through phosphate runoff.
Without phase II of Cambridge city's project, Magazine Beach is now a “green” place in the best sense of the word, except for the bizarre designer bushes for which wetlands and animal habitat was destroyed along with the usual deliberate animal starvation.
In city whose pols mouth holier than thous almost incessantly including on environmental matters, it should be a foregone conclusion that the EPA order would kill the balance of this reprehensible project.
Regrettably, the Chronicle, in its major fight to review the mayor’s spending has seen the contempt for law which is normal in the City of Cambridge .
Another recent example of Cambridge contempt for law is the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination’s recent finding of probable cause in Cambridge ’s abuse of a guide dog being used by a handicapped person and Cambridge ’s refusal to enforce Federal law protecting that guide dog (I know the fights, not the specific details of the finding). Cambridge , in a position strikingly similar to the Jim Crow south, says that Cambridge ’s civil rights laws are good enough. Cambridge refuses to obey federal civil rights laws which give more civil rights to the handicapped than Cambridge cares to give.
Another example of Cambridge contempt for law was the trashing of 51 nominating petition signatures on this candidate’s election papers (making those papers invalid) a few years ago. Cambridge Election Commission, filled with lawyers, considers itself above the clearly applicable Jack E. Robinson election law decision.
Lawlessness is the norm in the granting of property variances, unless the city, through lying to the public, has trashed the zoning laws sufficiently that variances are no longer necessary.
The contempt for law, the contempt for basic principals of good government and the contempt for basic principals of a good city combine with the holier than thou lies to really create a vile stench about our government.
Keep up the good fight on your part of watching this government in action.
I myself will keep an eye on Magazine Beach and an eye on a whole bunch of Cambridge pols who lie about being pro-environment.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
What happens to the White Geese in the Winter? Plus election recommendation.
Bob La Trémouille reports:
We got the following very appropriate question in email. Here is the question and a slightly cleaned up answer:
1. Please let me know what happens to the White Geese in the winter. Thanks!
2. Response:
The Charles River White Geese lived in freedom on the Charles River for 23 years, from 1981 to 2004 when the state and Cambridge pols and bureaucrats started to deliberately starve them.
They have goose down jackets and survive cold temperatures quite happily.
Winter extremes are the reason free animals including the CRWG stuff themselves during the good parts of the year, so that they can survive the winter with its lack of food.
Many friends would visit them during the off year with cracked corn, bread and veggies to help, as we did during the good times of the year.
When the DCR started starving the geese, the DCR explained that they did not consider starving them to be harming them.
Since the starvation attacks started, concerned people have aggressively been feeding the Charles River White Geese, and local charities have contributed day old greens, of great value.
These contributions have been necessary because we are dealing with PROUDLY reprehensible people, although the DCR spent years insisting they would do no harm to the CRWG.
We have found that our prior feedings were very much supplemental. We have found that the principal food was the grass at Magazine Beach and across from the Hyatt, all of which were taken away at once.
In the feedings, we and, more recently, a separate feeding organization carefully balanced the CRWG’s diet. Full feedings now continue year round.
If you are a Cambridge resident, please be advised that heartless individuals include each and every current city council incumbent. The conservation committee member who is a candidate, Samuel Sidel, could reasonably be considered worse.
The ONLY Cambridge City Council Candidate that I am aware of who has shown herself fit to be voted for is Kathy Podgers.
We got the following very appropriate question in email. Here is the question and a slightly cleaned up answer:
1. Please let me know what happens to the White Geese in the winter. Thanks!
2. Response:
The Charles River White Geese lived in freedom on the Charles River for 23 years, from 1981 to 2004 when the state and Cambridge pols and bureaucrats started to deliberately starve them.
They have goose down jackets and survive cold temperatures quite happily.
Winter extremes are the reason free animals including the CRWG stuff themselves during the good parts of the year, so that they can survive the winter with its lack of food.
Many friends would visit them during the off year with cracked corn, bread and veggies to help, as we did during the good times of the year.
When the DCR started starving the geese, the DCR explained that they did not consider starving them to be harming them.
Since the starvation attacks started, concerned people have aggressively been feeding the Charles River White Geese, and local charities have contributed day old greens, of great value.
These contributions have been necessary because we are dealing with PROUDLY reprehensible people, although the DCR spent years insisting they would do no harm to the CRWG.
We have found that our prior feedings were very much supplemental. We have found that the principal food was the grass at Magazine Beach and across from the Hyatt, all of which were taken away at once.
In the feedings, we and, more recently, a separate feeding organization carefully balanced the CRWG’s diet. Full feedings now continue year round.
If you are a Cambridge resident, please be advised that heartless individuals include each and every current city council incumbent. The conservation committee member who is a candidate, Samuel Sidel, could reasonably be considered worse.
The ONLY Cambridge City Council Candidate that I am aware of who has shown herself fit to be voted for is Kathy Podgers.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Destruction resumes on the Charles River West of the BU Bridge
Marilyn Wellons follows up on Bob La Tremouille's early morning report:
Bob La Tremouille posted this alert early Wednesday morning. As soon as I could, I went to Magazine Beach to find out what was up.
Fortunately, for the moment, there's no major construction at Magazine Beach now. According to the MWRA workers I talked to, the extensive stack of items at Magazine Beach is a large quantity of pontoons, leftovers from the Head of the Charles regatta, now removed from the river.
If not today, major construction is nevertheless coming, if the City of Cambridge has its way. Phase 2 of the joint Cambridge-DCR project here--replacing 7 acres of ball fields and wildlife habitat there with 7 acres of commercial sod (zero wildlife value but lots of chemicals)--will go out to bid in November.
Cambridge City Councillors, the Conservation Commission, and State Senator Galluccio insist on going ahead with this project. They seem to believe, or want voters to believe, that they're giving Cambridge children more playing fields. In fact the project adds ZERO to the number of playing fields, ZERO to the city's inventory of open space, and $1.5 million of city funds to the DCR and its contractors.
This project also gives us more toxic algae blooms in the river. The blooms in 2006 and 2007 followed the installation of 6 acres of commercial sod downriver, at the Ebersol ball fields in Boston near MGH. Runoff from the chemicals applied there fed the algae and will continue to do so. Now Cambridge is paying $1.5 million to repeat the blunder and add more chemicals to the river from these 7 acres for bigger and better blooms.
We've paid $60 million so far to clean up the river, but that will be down the drain, so to speak, when Cambridge and the DCR are done.
What a deal.
Bob's alarm this morning was certainly reasonable.
One morning in October, 1999, the DCR's agent (Boston University) began destroying the goose meadow, where the White Geese nest, before the ConCom even met to consider the DCR's request for permission to do it. And BU's contractors cleared and poisoned much more than they ultimately told the ConCom they planned to. When dealing with the White Geese, the DCR has, to put it delicately, not been bothered by laws.
Three years ago, in September, 2004, the City of Cambridge and the DCR suddenly put up 3 lines of barriers between the water and the fields at Magazine Beach. Suddenly, the White Geese, who had been feeding there for more than 20 years, couldn't. They couldn't get ashore--and this at a time of year when they would ordinarily have been feeding from before sunup to after sundown on the grass, to prepare for winter.
The geese were frantic. We, their friends, tried to feed them as best we could, but it has been very hard to keep them from starving in the three years since that September. Until that time I had no idea how merely supplementary any food the White Geese got from their human friends was. That is, the geese--vegetarians--had survived for more than 20 years on the Charles on the grass and other riverfront plants. It is their primary food. Three years later, the geese still cannot get to their primary feeding grounds safely.
The DCR and Cambridge are very clear they don't want the White Geese on the river. So it's fair to say that preventing the geese from feeding at Magazine Beach is a deliberate policy. (Our Freedom of Information search of DCR documents in 2000 revealed the agency's written policy against the White Geese.)
So by noon today we knew that construction hadn't started yet. However, since the Cambridge City Council, the ConCom, and Senator Galluccio insist on proceeding with this project despite knowing about the algae blooms of 2006 and 2007, we are alert for the start of construction at any time.
Marilyn Wellons
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Bob's report, early Wednesday morning, October 31, 2007:
There is a tradition in Cambridge, MA.
The really vile behavior is commonly saved until just after the election.
This morning early symptoms were at Magazine Beach and across the Charles River on the Boston side.
On Magazine Beach were seen 14 to 15 combinations of 15 packages each of nearly rectangular hollow black plastic objects. These objects were identical to each other, one to two feet in flat dimensions, a bit less than a foot high.
The last time this sort of this showed up at Magazine Beach, the vile City of Cambridge and Department of Conservation and Recreation created three walls in the Charles River blocking access between the river and Magazine Beach with the obvious starvation impacts.
On the south side of the river was a work crew with police protection. The plastic walls were in place pretty much walling off the south shore from the river in an area starting from about the BU Bridge and ending across from the outfield at Magazine Beach.
We have bureaucrats and pols with contempt for the environment.
The last time this happened at Magazine Beach, wetlands, native protective vegetation and animal habitat were destroyed to put in bizarre bushes which kept dying and which were unfit for the Charles River. Deliberate starvation was targeted at the Charles River White Geese. The leadership of the DCR explained four years of promises not to harm them by saying that they did not consider starving them harming them.
On the south side, the DCR would appear to be going public with its contempt for native, protective vegetation and animal habitat. Previously, they hid behind the Charles River Conservancy.
Reprehensible, business as usual in the City of Cambridge and with their state bureaucrats and pols.
Bob La Tremouille posted this alert early Wednesday morning. As soon as I could, I went to Magazine Beach to find out what was up.
Fortunately, for the moment, there's no major construction at Magazine Beach now. According to the MWRA workers I talked to, the extensive stack of items at Magazine Beach is a large quantity of pontoons, leftovers from the Head of the Charles regatta, now removed from the river.
If not today, major construction is nevertheless coming, if the City of Cambridge has its way. Phase 2 of the joint Cambridge-DCR project here--replacing 7 acres of ball fields and wildlife habitat there with 7 acres of commercial sod (zero wildlife value but lots of chemicals)--will go out to bid in November.
Cambridge City Councillors, the Conservation Commission, and State Senator Galluccio insist on going ahead with this project. They seem to believe, or want voters to believe, that they're giving Cambridge children more playing fields. In fact the project adds ZERO to the number of playing fields, ZERO to the city's inventory of open space, and $1.5 million of city funds to the DCR and its contractors.
This project also gives us more toxic algae blooms in the river. The blooms in 2006 and 2007 followed the installation of 6 acres of commercial sod downriver, at the Ebersol ball fields in Boston near MGH. Runoff from the chemicals applied there fed the algae and will continue to do so. Now Cambridge is paying $1.5 million to repeat the blunder and add more chemicals to the river from these 7 acres for bigger and better blooms.
We've paid $60 million so far to clean up the river, but that will be down the drain, so to speak, when Cambridge and the DCR are done.
What a deal.
Bob's alarm this morning was certainly reasonable.
One morning in October, 1999, the DCR's agent (Boston University) began destroying the goose meadow, where the White Geese nest, before the ConCom even met to consider the DCR's request for permission to do it. And BU's contractors cleared and poisoned much more than they ultimately told the ConCom they planned to. When dealing with the White Geese, the DCR has, to put it delicately, not been bothered by laws.
Three years ago, in September, 2004, the City of Cambridge and the DCR suddenly put up 3 lines of barriers between the water and the fields at Magazine Beach. Suddenly, the White Geese, who had been feeding there for more than 20 years, couldn't. They couldn't get ashore--and this at a time of year when they would ordinarily have been feeding from before sunup to after sundown on the grass, to prepare for winter.
The geese were frantic. We, their friends, tried to feed them as best we could, but it has been very hard to keep them from starving in the three years since that September. Until that time I had no idea how merely supplementary any food the White Geese got from their human friends was. That is, the geese--vegetarians--had survived for more than 20 years on the Charles on the grass and other riverfront plants. It is their primary food. Three years later, the geese still cannot get to their primary feeding grounds safely.
The DCR and Cambridge are very clear they don't want the White Geese on the river. So it's fair to say that preventing the geese from feeding at Magazine Beach is a deliberate policy. (Our Freedom of Information search of DCR documents in 2000 revealed the agency's written policy against the White Geese.)
So by noon today we knew that construction hadn't started yet. However, since the Cambridge City Council, the ConCom, and Senator Galluccio insist on proceeding with this project despite knowing about the algae blooms of 2006 and 2007, we are alert for the start of construction at any time.
Marilyn Wellons
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Bob's report, early Wednesday morning, October 31, 2007:
There is a tradition in Cambridge, MA.
The really vile behavior is commonly saved until just after the election.
This morning early symptoms were at Magazine Beach and across the Charles River on the Boston side.
On Magazine Beach were seen 14 to 15 combinations of 15 packages each of nearly rectangular hollow black plastic objects. These objects were identical to each other, one to two feet in flat dimensions, a bit less than a foot high.
The last time this sort of this showed up at Magazine Beach, the vile City of Cambridge and Department of Conservation and Recreation created three walls in the Charles River blocking access between the river and Magazine Beach with the obvious starvation impacts.
On the south side of the river was a work crew with police protection. The plastic walls were in place pretty much walling off the south shore from the river in an area starting from about the BU Bridge and ending across from the outfield at Magazine Beach.
We have bureaucrats and pols with contempt for the environment.
The last time this happened at Magazine Beach, wetlands, native protective vegetation and animal habitat were destroyed to put in bizarre bushes which kept dying and which were unfit for the Charles River. Deliberate starvation was targeted at the Charles River White Geese. The leadership of the DCR explained four years of promises not to harm them by saying that they did not consider starving them harming them.
On the south side, the DCR would appear to be going public with its contempt for native, protective vegetation and animal habitat. Previously, they hid behind the Charles River Conservancy.
Reprehensible, business as usual in the City of Cambridge and with their state bureaucrats and pols.
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